Alstom teams up with NPCIL, BHEL to supply reactor turbines

Alstom Power, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and BHEL have entered into a tripartite agreement for supplying turbines for the indigenous 700-MWe Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors that will be built in four locations in India.

“We have been retained to provide turbines for the 700-MWe reactors for India's nuclear power programme. The first order is for Kakrapar in Gujarat,” Guy Chardon, senior vice-president, Thermal Products, Alstom Power, said here.

He told visiting journalists from India and France that NPCIL, Alstom Power and BHEL would have one-third equity each in this joint venture, which awaited the approval of the Atomic Energy Commission (of India).

Excavation is under way for building two reactors of 700 MWe each at Kakrapar, 80 km from Surat. Six more Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors of 700 MWe each will come up in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana, with two reactors for each State.

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