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Hearing that the AHWR design is fully complete and BARC/NPCIL have applied to AERB for Construction consent for the first unit at Tarapur. As per the 2017 plan this was supposed to be complete by December 2020 but this was delayed due to slow down in experiments due to covid. One of the...

We aren't building fast due to financial limitations, manpower limitations and site land acquisition issues. Each plant requires USD 4 Billion for a single unit and GoI doesn't have so much to spare for power plants as the money is being spent on other infrastructure. Instead, GoI wants...

Tenders have been released to complete the final phase of BARC Vizag campus. Next likely efforts could include start of construction work on High Flux Research Reactor and Innovative High temperature Reactor ar Vizag. NFC Kota construction seems to be nearly complete and will be primary...

Coal crisis: Nuclear plants are operating at near full capacity and exceeding their planned targets which is rare as purchasers prioritise cheap coal based power over nuclear if they can avoid although it is against the Central guidelines. Central guidance says Solar+Wind+Hydro+Nuclear are...

BARC in it's August newsletter has confirmed forging of specimens of 350 mm to 750 mm thick reactor pressure vessel forgings for validation for the IPWR-900 program http://www.barc.gov.in/barc_nl/2021/2021070808.pdf (Nice pic inside) Wikipedia links to paper that says it is probably 20MnMoNi55...