The Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad, India, set a world record for nuclear fuel production in 2015-16 with 1,503 tons of fuel produced. This is the second year in a row that NFC, a component of India’s Department of Atomic Energy, has produced the most fuel of any plant, and the company’s chairman and chief executive officer N. Saibaba said that the plant could produce 2,000 tons in the near future, reports Nuclear Street.
“We only need around 750 tons today for operating all of our reactors in the country. But we are making more, because we would like to demonstrate its ability to meet future requirements,” Live Mint quoted the chairman as saying.
“For example, about 16,700 MW of heavy water reactors are expected to come up by 2030-31. These require huge amounts of fuel,” Saibaba said. At the same time, the country’s second nuclear fuel complex in development at Kota, (in the western state of Rajasthan) will be able to ramp up to 1,000 tons of production per year, he added.
