Times of India
PTI [ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2002 10:16:18 PM ]
CHENNAI: For the first time, corrosion-free High Nitrogen Steel (HNS), a new technological innovation, will be used in the country in the prototype 500 mw fast breeder reactor (FBR) being planned at the atomic power plant at Kalpakkam near here, according to a top plant official.
As much as 4000 tonnes of HNS bars, sheets and tubes would be used in the Rs 3,000 crore prototype power unit, and the plant would be ready in the next seven years, S B Bhoje, Director, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, told newsmen after the inauguration of the four-day international conference on 'High Nitrogen Steels', which began here on Thursday.
Anil Kakodkar, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was to inaugurate the conference, did not make it due to his preoccupation in Delhi.
Bhoje said by the year 2020, the Department of Atomic Energy would construct four more FBRs, each of 500 mw capacity. The site selection committee would identify the locations. By 2025, DAE would build a FBR of 1000 mw capacity.