Nuclear Power Corporation

Budget: NPCIL gets Rs 9,410 cr as India seeks to ramp up nuclear capacity

NPCIL, India's sole nuclear power plant operator, on Wednesday received an allocation of Rs 9,410 crore in the Union Budget for 2023-24 as it sets out to ramp up atomic power generation capacity in the country. The allocation to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) was an increase of Rs 2,859 crore (more than 43 per cent) over the revised estimate of Rs 6,551 crore of the current fiscal. In addition to the budgetary allocation, the NPCIL will raise an additional Rs 12,863 crore through Internal and Extra Budgetary Resources, which constitutes the resources raised by the PSUs through profits, loans and equity. The Department of Atomic Energy has been allocated Rs 25,078.49 crore which is lower than Rs 25,965.67 crore it had received in the revised estimates in the 2022-23 fiscal. The other public sector companies under the Department of Atomic Energy - Indian Rare Earths Ltd will get Rs 120.30 crore, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd Rs 59.82 crore, and Electronics

Godrej & Boyce gets Rs 468 cr order to supply generators for PHWR project

Godrej & Boyce has bagged a Rs 468 crore order from Nuclear Power Corporation of India to supply steam generators for 700 MW pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWR) project. The company's process equipment division will be supplying the generators for the indigenous project and is the biggest order for the division yet, Godrej & Boyce said in a statement. Steam generators are critical equipment in a nuclear power plant for generating clean (non-fossil) and reliable source of power for baseload requirements, the statement said. The generators will be manufactured at the company's facility in Dahej, Gujarat. For decades now, Godrej Process Equipment has been a leading global fabricator of high end critical static equipment for the process industry. To contribute to India's prestigious nuclear power programme is a matter of great pride for us, its business head Hussain Shariyarr said. The Indian PHWRs have been designed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and one reactor .

Nuclear Power Corp to spend Rs 18,000 cr on capital expenditure in FY22

Atomic power generation company Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) plans to spend about Rs 18,000 crore as capital expenditure this fiscal, said top company official

BHEL gains 7% on emerging lowest bidder for NPCIL's Rs 10,800 cr tender

The company has emerged as lowest bidder for tender worth Rs 10,800 crore for fleet mode tender floated by Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for the 6x700 MW Turbine Island Package Projects.

State-owned BHEL emerges lowest bidder for NPCIL's Rs 10,800 crore-tender

The firm said it has emerged as the lowest bidder for supply of equipment for 6x700 MW nuclear power projects of Nuclear Power Corporation of India

UAE begins start-up operations at first nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi

The Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi, a major oil producer, is being built by Korea Electric Power Corporation

NPCIL to build four more atomic power units in 2020, says AEC chief

The KAPS-Unit 3 is the first atomic power unit that would start commercial operations

Leave the PSUs alone for now

Government sell-off is a stimulus for itself and might not work at this juncture

A day after denial, NPCIL confirms malware attack at Kudankulam nuke plant

Matter was investigated Department of Atomic Energy which revealed that the infected computer belonged to a user who was connected in the internet network used for administrative purposes

Nuclear doubts

Questions abound over India's nuclear power plans