Rawatbhata nuclear facility will be ready to fuel Power Plants by 2022

The Rs 18,000-crore Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Facility (NFFFF) and Zirconium Fabrication Facility (ZFF) proposed to come up at Rawatbhata, 65 km from Kota in Chittorgarh district, will cater to needs of the upcoming 10 units of 700 MW atomic power plant in the country. It is likely to be completed by 2022.

The Rawatbhata plant will be the second nuclear fuel facility after Hyderabad,which was built in 1971.

The foundation stone of the nuclear fuel complex at Rawatbhata was laid by the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Dr . Shekhar Basu on Saturday. This project was cleared in 2014 by the Union Cabinet but got delayed by almost two years due to environmental clearance.

Rawatbhata is country’s largest nuclear power generation centre with completion of seventh and eighth unit of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP). In Rawatbhata, six nuclear power plants are currently generating 1180 mwe of power. Two of new Indian-designed 700 mwe series of reactor (RAPP-7 and RAPP-8) would start generation soon.

“The two reactors cost an estimated Rs 123.2 billion ($2.6 billion). Once the two new reactors go into stream, total production from RAPS will touch 1400 MWE,” said …read more