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Option 3 : Gorakhpur
The correct answer is Gorakhpur.
- Gorakhpur in Haryana will a new 9000-MW nuclear power plant be set up by 2024.
- India will have nine nuclear reactors by 2024
- The first nuclear power plant in northern India will come up in Gorakhpur of Haryana.
- By 2024, India will have nine nuclear reactors plus 12 new additional ones which were approved with a capacity of 9000 MW.
- India is counting on its nuclear program to help meet its Paris climate commitments to reduce the emissions intensity of its economy by a third from 2005 levels by 2030.
- Nuclear energy: It is the energy in the nucleus of an atom.
- Nuclear energy is generated by nuclear fusion and nuclear fission reactions.
- Nuclear energy plants do not release carbon emissions but there are other disadvantages:
- Disadvantages of nuclear energy plants:
- It causes thermal pollution.
- Its wastes are radioactive materials
- It requires a large amount of water.
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