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India's Indigenous Small Modular Reactors
July 27 , 2026
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- India plans to develop and operationalise at least five indigenously designed Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) by 2033.
- The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is designing three reactor types: 220-megawatt electric (MWe) Bharat SMR, 55 MWe SMR, and up to 5-megawatt thermal (MWth) High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR).
- The Bharat SMR and SMR-55 use Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) technology, which uses high-pressure water as both coolant and moderator.
- The HTGR will be developed at Visakhapatnam to produce hydrogen using nuclear heat.
- India aims to achieve 100 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power capacity by 2047, with about 22 GW targeted by 2031–32.
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