The Hindu Business Line : NFC dispatches fuel rods to Nuclear Power Corp unit

MUMBAI: Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) has supplied 11,016 fuel rods from imported natural uranium to Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in a record time of six months for three reactors.

The company has dispatched its latest consignment of fabricated 3,672 fuel rods for the newly constructed 220 MW Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) unit 6 and Nuclear Power Corporation will be loading the fuel at the plant soon, Mr R.N. Jairaj, Chief Executive of NFC, told PTI.

Once the loading is over, the unit 6 which also comes under the fold of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards like RAPS units 1, 2 and 5, is expected to be commissioned by the end of December, he said.

The Hyderabad-based NFC received 300 tonnes of natural uranium from the French nuclear major AREVA as one time supply.

From Russia, the company received 120 tonnes as supplementary contract under the umbrella contract of 2,000 tonnes of natural uranium.

Under the umbrella contract, India will receive 2,000 tonnes in a time frame of five to seven years, he said.

From June to November, NFC has fabricated imported fuel for three reactors at the rate of 3,672 rods each and supplied to RAPS units 2, 5 and 6, Mr Jairaj said.

“From April to May, the IAEA inspectors were at NFC to make arrangements for taking stock of the imported fuels,” he said. — PTI

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