How Ap Is Becoming India’S Nuclear Core : Disco Vizag Feople

[Spartan]

With Visakhapatnam set to host BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) 2 and GE-Hitachi collaborating with Nuclear Power Corporation to set up a cluster of six 1,600 MW reactors at Kovvada in Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh is fast turning into the country’s nuclear core.

BARC Director Sekhar Basu told BusinessLine that the 4,000-acre BARC-2 campus in Visakhapatnam will have strategic facilities, a fuel fabrication unit, futuristic accelerators and a Hiflux reactor producing large quantities of radioisotopes. Currently, the Dhruva reactor in Trombay (Mumbai) is the mainstay.

Though the project was green-signalled in 2005 and some funds sanctioned in 2009, opposition from local people and issues around land acquisition had hindered it. It is now gathering pace and will be set up in phases. “We expect it to be the key centre driving the country’s nuclear research and development programmes,” he said.

Groundwork has been initiated at Kovvada for the mega nuclear power project, facilitated by the India-US Nuclear Treaty. Though the actual construction activity is yet to begin, the GE-Hitachi-NPCIL team has started public awareness campaigns.

Andhra Pradesh will soon turn a key supplier of atomic fuel. At Thummalapalle, Kadapa district, where the largest deposit of low-grade uranium ore (about one lakh tonnes) was discovered by the Atomic Minerals Division, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd (UCIL) is working at full throttle to start production.

UCIL is struggling to supply the 21 power plants with mining restricted to Jharkhand’s Jaduguda mines.

AP has also made a proposal to the Department of Atomic Energy on setting up a greenfield nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Kurnool district. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu gave the project the go-ahead last week.

According to DAE sources, the Department is inclined to accept the proposal. This facility will supplement the Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad, the main fuel supplier.

 

[DappuSubani]

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[Spartan]

LTT for Arya..ne take endi deeni meeda..

[lazybugger]

first nee take cheppu.

[Comfort]

LTT for Arya..ne take endi deeni meeda..

idi eppati nundo undi kada vuncle proposal...already BARC center undi vizag lo probably expansion jarugutundi daniki 

[pythonic]

mundu aa kovvada racha ni clear chesthe taruvatha plan cheyochu...racha tappa implementation ledu...

[Spartan]

first nee take cheppu.

 

im no local to vizag man..so dont know what pros and cons on it will be