New Delhi: Russia extending support to India’s nuclear industry has not only supplied fuel for Kudankulam plant built by Rosatom but also supplied uranium to power India’s oldest nuclear power plant in Tarapur.
TVEL, fuel division of Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, has been supplying uranium fuel pellets for Tarapur on a regular basis in 2019. The total volume of the fuel pellets supplied to India for Tarapur in 2019 exceeded 50 tons. The pellets will be used for fabrication of nuclear fuel assemblies for the Tarapur Nuclear Power Plant.
Tarapur Plant in Palghar district, Maharashtra, is the first commercial nuclear power plant in India commissioned in 1969.
