November 21, 2008

NPCIL gets Russian uranium for Kudankulam plant

BS reported that Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited has received the first consignment of uranium fuel from Russia for unit 1 of 1,000 MW Kudankulam nuclear power project.

According to Mr AI Siddiqui of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, through a sovereign guarantee of the Russian Federation, an assured fuel supply for the next 60 years has been made available to the project. He added that the construction activities are being carried out round the clock at the project site and 86% of the work has been completed.

The project, located in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, comprises two units of 1,000 MW each. The two units of the project belong to advance design of VVER family, a pressurized water reactor constituting a majority of power reactors in the world. These reactors use light enriched uranium as fuel. It is being built with technical collaboration from the Russian Federation.