The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) is keen on taking up mining of uranium in Nalgonda district in Telangana and the work on the second campus of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), also called BARC-II in Visakhapatnam, is expected to begin in a couple of years.

BARC-II will be coming up on a 4,000-acre site in Vizag. The facility is bigger than the existing one at Trombay. It will house strategic facilities with advanced technologies, including a high flux reactor.

Besides reprocessing fuel, it will also produce radio-isotopes required for the entire country.

The Atomic Minerals Division (AMD) had identified 18,000 tonne of uranium deposits were identified at Peddagattu, Lambapur and Chitrial. The uranium concentration was 0.6 per cent as against 0.3 per cent in Tummalapalle in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. DAE is keen to take up mining in Nalgonda and pointed out that the deposits were better than those found in Thumalapalle.