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Share TVEL, the fuel manufacturer subsidiary of Russia’s Rosatom, has signed a contract with India’s Department of Atomic Energy for supplies of uranium fuel pellets for the Tarapur boiling water reactors (BWRs). A key component of nuclear fuel, a pellet consists of pressed-powder uranium dioxide that has previously been enriched with the U-235 isotope. Such fuel pellets need to be further loaded into fuel rods. TVEL will supply uranium fuel pellets for the Tarapur nuclear power plant (Image: TVEL) The contract covers the supply this year of “several dozen tonnes” of the pellets, which are to be produced by Elektrostal Machine-Building Plant, a TVEL facility located in the Moscow region. The nuclear fuel bundles for the Tarapur units will be manufactured at the National Fuel Complex in Hyderabad, in Telengana state. TVEL has already fulfilled several similar contracts for the export of fuel pellets to India, including for pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs), Oleg Grigoriyev, senior vice-president for commerce and international business at TVEL, noted. Commissioned in 1969, the Tarapur nuclear power plant, which is in Palghar district, in Maharashtra state, was the first commercial nuclear power plant in India. It consists of two 150 MWe BWRs and two 490 MWe PHWRs. TVEL also supplies complete fuel bundles for Russian-made VVER reactors at the two operating units of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, under a long-term contract with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Li...

New Delhi: Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station or TAPS as it is known. Located in the industrial area of Boisar in Maharashtra’s Thane district, TAPS was India’s first atomic power project when it began operations on 28 October, 1969. Launched under the Lal Bahadur Shastri government, TAPS relies on boiling water reactors (BWRs) for power generation. BWRs are nuclear reactors using water as a coolant and moderator, with steam being produced in the reactor that is then enriched with uranium oxide. The BWRs actually boil water, which is then converted to steam and recycled back to water through a condenser to be re-used in the heat-generation process.   The first of these reactors for Tarapur was acquired by Homi Bhabha , considered the father of India’s nuclear programme. It was regarded as a pioneering move for two reasons. First, because the technology was new, and second, because it showed Bhabha’s confidence in international cooperation as the project was completed with US collaboration.  Also read:  For 31 years after his death, Homi Bhabha’s office room was unoccupied An American collaboration  The nuclear plant is the result of New Delhi’s collaboration with the US. The contract for the plant was signed between the two countries in May 1964. The BWRs were supplied by the US conglomerate General Electric (GE) ; over 100 American s were part of the project. Five years after the contract was signed, commercial oper...

This is the first of two chapters to examine the building of Tarapur Atomic Power Station, India’s first commercial nuclear plant. The American firm General Electric was the prime contractor on this turn-key project, while another American firm, Bechtel, served as the engineering and construction subcontractor. The project received financing for foreign-exchange costs from the US government. This chapter, which is based on both Indian and US government records, narrates the beginning of the Tarapur project and places it in its Cold-War political context. During negotiations over the contracts and financing of the plant, the questions of fuel supply and safeguards threatened to derail the agreement. American nuclear plants used enriched uranium, and at the time the United States was the only western-bloc source for this fuel. Eager to promote Atoms for Peace, but wary of nuclear weapons proliferation, the United States insisted that India submit to safeguards for the nuclear fuel at Tarapur. Because of the ideal of autarky, India was reluctant both to commit to long-term importation of enriched uranium and to submit to safeguards. Nevertheless, India agreed to build an American nuclear plant this time only, as a way of diversifying technical expertise and risk. For nuclear power in the Soviet Union, see Paul R. Josephson, Red Atom: Russia’s Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000); for France, see Gabrielle Hecht, The Rad...

Kaiga Generating Station Country India Coordinates 14°51′55.16″N 74°26′22.71″E / 14.8653222°N 74.4396417°E / 14.8653222; 74.4396417 Status Operational Constructionbegan 1989 16 November 2000 Owner(s) Operator(s) Nuclearpowerstation Reactors 4 Reactortype Units 1,2,3 & 4: Units 5 & 6: Reactorsupplier Coolingsource Powergeneration Unitsoperational 4 x 220MW Unitsplanned 2 x 700MW 808 92.02% (2020-21) 7094 Externallinks Website .npcil .nic .in /main /ProjectOperationDisplay .aspx?ReactorID=76 [ Kaiga Generating Station is a nuclear power generating station situated at It has four units. The fourth unit went critical on 27 November 2010. History [ ] On 27 November 2010 the Kaiga Atomic Power Station unit 4 of 220MW capacity became operational. On 19 January 2011, unit 4 with 220MW capacity was connected to the southern power grid at 01:56 hours. With this, the total capacity rose to 880MW gross making it the third largest in India after In December 2018, it got the distinction of setting a world record of continuous operation among all nuclear power plants. As on 10 December 2018, KGS-1, which was synchronized to India's Southern grid on 13 May 2016, continues to operate for a record number of 962 days. Previous record of continuous operation was held by Two Units [ ] Unit Type Gross MW Construction start Operation start Notes Phase I Kaiga 1 220 1 September 1989 16 November 2000 Kaiga 2 220 1 December 1989 16 March 2000 Phase II Kaiga 3 220 30 March 2002 6 May 2007 Kaiga 4 22...

After gas, wind power, Coal, and hydroelectricity, nuclear power is India's fifth-largest source of energy generation. India currently has 22 active nuclear reactors with a total installed capacity of around 6,780 MW. As India gained independence, a nuclear energy program was established under the leadership of Homi J. Bhabha. Mumbai is the site of the first nuclear reactor to be built in Asia, the Apsara Research Reactor. India has a modest indigenous uranium stockpile and is reliant on uranium supplies from other nations to feed its nuclear power sector. Russia has been a key supplier of nuclear materials to India since the 1990s. Background: As a component of its infrastructure expansion agenda, the Indian government is committed to developing nuclear power capacity. The Centre has set numerous ambitious aims for the coming years to accomplish this. For 34 years, India was primarily prohibited from trading in nuclear facilities and materials because of its weapons program, hampering its development of civil nuclear energy until 2009. Moreover, as a result of a conflict between Indian civil liability law and international treaties, the availability of foreign technology in nuclear research has been hindered since 2010. In September 2008, the 48-nation Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) granted India access to civilian nuclear material and equipment from other nations. Operational Nuclear Power plants in India Power Plant Location Operator Total Capacity (MW) Kakrapur Gujarat N...

Formerly called Atomic Energy Establishment, bombay The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ( BARC) is India's premier Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay ( AEET) in January 1954 as a multidisciplinary research program essential for India's nuclear program. It operates under the BARC is a multi-disciplinary research centre with extensive infrastructure for advanced research and development covering the entire spectrum of BARC's core mandate is to sustain peaceful applications of Its primary facilities are located in [ when?] in History [ ] When Bhabha realised that technology development for the atomic energy programme could no longer be carried out within Bhabha established the BARC Training School to cater to the manpower needs of the expanding atomic energy research and development program. Bhabha emphasized self-reliance in all fields of nuclear science and engineering. The Government of India created the Atomic Energy Establishment, The first reactors at BARC and its affiliated power generation centres were imported from the west. India's first power reactors, installed at the The primary importance of BARC is as a research centre. The BARC and the Indian government has consistently maintained that the reactors are used for this purpose only: Apsara (1956; named by the then Prime Minister of India, Along with DRDO and other agencies and laboratories BARC also played an essential and important role in nuclear weapons technology and research. The plutonium used in India's 19...