Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd (G&B), a flagship company of the Godrej Group, has secured an order worth Rs 468 crore from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to supply steam generators for pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR) project of 700 MW
Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Ltd (G&B), a flagship company of the Godrej Group, has secured an order worth Rs 468 crore from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to supply steam generators for pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR) project of 700 MW. In a nuclear power plant, steam generators are crucial equipment for generating clean, and reliable sources of power for baseload requirements, the statement said.
The steam generators will be produced in Dahej, Gujarat at the company’s facility. Godrej Process Equipment has been a vital global fabricator of high-end critical static equipment for the process industry for decades now, said Hussain Shariyarr, business head of the company.
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has designed Indian PHWRs, and one reactor is operational at Gujarat’s Kakrapar. More reactors are under construction at Gorakhpur village in Haryana, and Kakrapar, Rawatbhata in Rajasthan.