Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has achieved a major milestone with the dispatch of its 42nd Nuclear Steam Generator to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL).
The steam generator to be installed for a 700 MWe unit at NPCIL’s Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP), was flagged off from BHEL’s Trichy plant.
The first stage of the indigenous nuclear power program of the country has attained maturity with 18 operating PHWRs. Twelve PHWRs accounting for 74 percent of the Indigenous Nuclear Power capacity are equipped with BHEL-supplied Steam Turbine Generator sets (10 units of 220 MW each and two units of 540 MW).