Uranium and Nuclear Power Plants in India

BANGALORE, India - Sept. 23, 2014 - PRLog -- To feed the thirst for Energy Salvation in India uranium plays a major role as a vital fuel in India. For India’s fuel-starved energy sector, the one silver lining is imported uranium. Over the last four years, when an all-pervasive shortage of coal and gas short-circuited electricity generation from the country’s mainstay thermal plants, imported uranium has been coming in thick and fast. India has bought over Rs 2,600 crore worth of uranium ore concentrate from NAC Kazatomprom of Kazakhstan and natural uranium di-oxide pellets from Russia’s state-owned firm JSC TVEL Corporation since April 2011.

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The buoyant uranium imports are showing up in the operational performance of Indian nuclear power plants, which reached their highest levels last fiscal and are headed for a record this year. The capacity factor or operational efficiency of the 20 nuclear power reactors currently running in the country rose to a record 83 per cent in 2013-14.

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In quantitative terms, in the last four years, India received a total of 2,215 tonnes of uranium from Kazakhstan andRussia, including a shipment of 118 tonnes from Russia this fiscal. Till March 2011, the country had received 868 tonnes of uranium from France, Russia and Kazakhstan, comprising 300 tonnes of natural uranium concentrate from Areva, 58 tonnes as enriched uranium dioxide pellets from Areva, 210 tonnes as natural uranium oxide pellets from Russia’s TVEL and 300 tonnes as natural uranium from Kazatomprom.

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