NPCIL will design the entire switchyard for the third and fourth 1,000 MW VVER (Pressurised Water reactor) nuclear reactors at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu.
NPCIL is likely to buy the super high quality electric cables required for the proposed third and fourth reactors from Indian companies. This will certainly be a cost saving for NPCIL. The switchyard will be installed with Indian accessories for the third and fourth reactors. The ‘Bhoomi puja’ for the two reactors is likely to take place by December 2011.
Earlier, NPCIL had imported 12,000 Km of cable for the first two reactors from Ukraine. The construction of the two reactors had cost Rs 13,171 crore.
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