India achieves big milestone as NFC produces one million PHWR fuel bundles for nuclear power reactors

Ch Sushil Rao / TNN / Feb 26, 2019, 15:52 IST

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Dinesh Srivastava appreciated the role played by NFC employees in achieving the production of one million bundles. He assured CMD, NPCIL that the fuel and core structurals required for the 10 New PHWRs will be met by NFC as per the schedule. He said NFC was gearing up in creating the manufacturing facilities to meet the requirement in addition to meeting the fuel and structural requirements of all the operating reactors in India.

India achieves big milestone as NFC produces one million PHWR fuel bundles for nuclear power reactors

One millionth bundle being handed over to CMD, NPCIL

HYDERABAD: In a significant milestone for the country, the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), a unit of department of Atomic Energy, Government of India has produced one million Pressurised heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) fuel bundles for the operating nuclear power reactors in India.
To mark the achievement, a function was organized at NFC in the city to hand over the one millionth PHWR fuel bundle to S K Sharma, chairman & managing director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), Mumbai on Monday.

The one millionth bundle was handed over by Dinesh Srivastava, Distinguished Scientist and Chairman & chief executive, NFC toS K Sharma.
Dinesh Srivastava appreciated the role played by NFC employees in achieving the production of one million bundles. He assured CMD, NPCIL that the fuel and core structurals required for the 10 New PHWRs will be met by NFC as per the schedule. He said NFC was gearing up in creating the manufacturing facilities to meet the requirement in addition to meeting the fuel and structural requirements of all the operating reactors in India.
S K Sharma, CMD, NPCIL while receiving the one millionth bundle appreciated the efforts of NFC in supplying the quality fuel bundles to meet the ever increasing demand of Nuclear Power Reactors. He also appreciated the efforts and quick delivery of 2 sets of Coolant Tubes for EMCCR of KAPS-1&2, because of which, NPCIL is able to re-commission the Units at a short span of time.

At times of shortage of Uranium in the Country, NFC took very innovative steps to recover Uranium from various kinds of Uranium bearing scraps and delivered the fuel to Nuclear Power Reactors. To continue the reactor operations, NFC has delivered the fuel bundles at a frequency of 15 days, he said.

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Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.

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