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India, Russia Sign Deal to Provide Enriched Uranium

EB Desk

India today signed another contract with Russia to provide enriched uranium for the Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS).

The TVEL Fuel Company, a subsidary working under the aegis of Rosatom, Russia’s atomic energy department, signed the contract with the India’s Department of Atomic Energy for the supply of enriched uranium fuel pellets.

“A series of shipments is planned to be made in 2015 to the Nuclear Fuel Center in Hyderabad, a fuel assembly production site for the Tarapur Atomic Power Station. As part of cooperation with the DAE, TVEL also supplies its nuclear fuel for the first and second power units of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant under a life-cycle contract,” said a Rosatom official.

In addition, the Russian-Indian cooperation extends to shipments of nuclear fuel components as TVEL supplies natural enriched uranium dioxide pellets for the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (PHWR reactor).

The Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) is under IAEA safeguards. Located on the western coast near Mumbai, TAPS unit 1 and 2 are the only two Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) in the country that require enriched uranium.

In 2014, TVEL signed fuel supply contracts with nuclear power stations in Hungary, Slovakia and Finland, and research reactors in the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Uzbekistan.

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