<span style="color: #222222;">The government has accorded approval and financial sanction for new nuclear power projects to generate a total of nine thousand Mega Watts (9,000 MW). Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Dr Jitendra singh said that in the last decade surpassing the annual targets, over three lakh 81 thousand Million Units of nuclear power have been generated.<br />''<br />''With the completion of new projects, nuclear power capacity will increase from 6,780 MW to 22,480 MW by the year 2031. He said, India has adopted a closed fuel cycle, to reprocess the spent fuel for recovery of fissile material and recycle them to use in the reactor as fuel, leaving a very small percentage of residual material. He also informed that the Department of Atomic Energy has been successfully handling the waste from atomic energy plants for societal applications.</span><br />