New Delhi : The government has "in principle" approved 10 sites for setting up new nuclear power projects, Parliament was told on Wednesday.
Listing out the 10 sites located in nine states, MoS in the PMO Jitendra Singh told the LS in a reply that "the government had accorded in principle approval of the sites for locating nuclear projects in future, based on both indigenous technologies and with foreign help".
The reactors would be set up at Gorakhpur in Haryana's Fatehabad, Chutka and Bhimpur in MP, Kaiga at Karnataka and Mahi Banswara in Rajasthan.
Meanwhile, Navy will commission a new base near Porbandar in Gujarat to strengthen security apparatus in the region.
