The Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), a unit of the Department of Atomic Energy, has produced one million PHWR Fuel Bundles for the operating nuclear power reactors.
The millionth fuel bundle was handed over to S K Sharma, Chairman and Managing Director, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), by Dinesh Srivastava, Chairman and Chief Executive of NFC, to mark the milestone.
The NFC chief assured the NPCIL that the fuel and the core structurals required for 10 New PHWRs (Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors) will be met as per the schedule.
“We are 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,” he added.
