From Power Technology, November 13:
The partnership builds on the Kudankulam NPP, and aims to expand local production and nuclear capacity towards India’s 100GWe goal.
Russia and India will urgently develop new joint projects for both large and small-capacity nuclear power plants (NPPs) and strengthen cooperation in the nuclear fuel cycle, according to a Rosatom statement. This followed a meeting in Mumbai between Rosatom director-general Alexey Likhachev and the head of India’s Department of Atomic Energy, Ajit Kumar Mohanty.
According to the statement: “particular attention was paid to the possibility of localising equipment production” in India. The two countries reaffirmed the value of the collaboration developed through the Kudankulam NPP project in Tamil Nadu and their willingness to launch new strategic initiatives in the nuclear energy sector. Kudankulam is the largest NPP in India, and the flagship project of Russian-Indian technological and energy cooperation.
The Kudankulam NPP will comprise six units with VVER-1000 reactors. Work began following an intergovernmental agreement between India and Russia signed in 1988. Units 1 and 2 (phase one) are already in operation and work is under way to build units 3-6 (phases two and three). The customer and operator of the station is the National Power Company of India (NPCIL), the general contractor is JSC ASE JSC (Rosatom’s Engineering Division), the general designer is Atomenergoproject and equipment design is provided by OKB Gidropress....
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