BHEL bags Rs 365 crore order for 700 MW nuke power project

Engineering major Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has bagged Rs 365 crore order from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited for supply of four steam generators for India's second 700 MWe nuclear power station, being set up at Rajasthan Atomic Power Project, Kota.

BHEL will design, manufacture and supply these steam generators. The product will be manufactured and tested according to American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME Sec.III) Standards and is expected to meet various operation requirements as per customer’s specifications. BHEL has so far supplied 32 nuclear steam generators for eight 220 MWe nuclear power stations at Narora (UP), Kaiga (Karnataka) and RAPP (Rajasthan). It has also supplied four nuclear steam generators for India's first 500 MWe nuclear power station at Tarapur Atomic Power Project (Maharashtra), for which the design was developed indigenously by BHEL.