Central PSUs Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) have entered into an MoU to jointly pursue business opportunities in the area of nuclear power plants based on pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) technology.
Under the MoU, BHEL and NPCIL will jointly explore opportunities for development of nuclear power projects with a view to reduce project gestation time, an official release by BHEL said.
Collaboration of the two major public sector enterprises will pave the way for early implementation of non-polluting and long-cycle nuclear power projects, which will also complement the G20 theme of environmental sustainability and contribute towards a cleaner and greener future, the release said.
All three stages
BHEL, in the release, said that is the only Indian company to be actively associated with all the three stages of the Indian Nuclear Programme, providing sustainable and customer centric solutions for over five decades.
The three stages are:
- PHWR (pressurized heavy water reactor)
- FBR (fast breeder reactor)
- AHWR (advanced heavy water reactor)
Comprehensive technology
The company has the capability to design, engineer, manufacture and supply primary side (reactor headers, end shields, etc.) as well as secondary side (steam turbines, generators, heat exchangers, etc.) equipment for nuclear power plants.
BHEL has supplied steam turbine generator sets for nearly 50 per cent of the country’s total installed nuclear capacity. BHEL-supplied steam turbine generator set for Unit 1 (220 MW) of NPCIL’s Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant in Karnataka had created a world record of 962 days of continuous operation in December 2018, proving best integrated performance of nuclear reactor and turbine System.
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NPCIL portfolio
With operation of 22 commercial nuclear power plants in India, with a total installed capacity of 6,780 MWe, NPCIL is the sole Indian organization responsible for design, construction and operation of thermal nuclear power plants in India and has over 580 reactor years of safe operating experience.
