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UPPCS Environment Gap Sheet: Clean and Nuclear Energy.

UPPCS has asked 14 of these. 11 have not been asked yet. Lock the first list, then read the second: it holds what UPPCS has not used yet.

First, the concept

India aims at 500 GW of non-fossil power capacity by 2030 and net zero by 2070. Solar has grown fastest; Rajasthan and Gujarat lead.

Each clean source needs a place that suits it: sun for solar, steady wind for wind farms, big tides for tidal power, hot rocks for geothermal.

UPPCS asks a plant with its place, and which source a site is good for.

✅ Already asked (14)

Solar and wind

  • Muppandal · Tamil Nadu; a big wind farm

Water, earth and sea

  • Tidal energy sites · Gulf of Khambhat and Gulf of Kutch (Gujarat), Sundarbans
  • Manikaran and Tattapani · Hot springs; Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
  • Small hydro · Up to 25 MW counts as renewable

New fuels

  • Ethanol blending (E20) · 20 percent ethanol in petrol, reached in 2025
  • Biogas · Mostly methane, from cow dung and waste
  • Jatropha · Biodiesel plant that grows on poor land

Nuclear power

  • Tarapur · Maharashtra; India's first nuclear power station (1969)
  • Kudankulam · Tamil Nadu; built with Russia; the largest
  • Rawatbhata · Rajasthan, on the Chambal
  • Kaiga and Kakrapar · Karnataka; Gujarat
  • Narora · Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, on the Ganga
  • Kalpakkam · Tamil Nadu; the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor
  • Three-stage nuclear programme · Homi Bhabha's plan to use India's thorium

❌ Not asked yet (11)

🔒 11 items not asked yet

Solar and wind: 5 · Water, earth and sea: 3 · New fuels: 2 · Nuclear power: 1

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⚠️ Narora is in Uttar Pradesh, but the Gorakhpur nuclear plant is in Haryana, not in Gorakhpur (UP). Tarapur, not Kudankulam, was the first nuclear power station.

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