State-owned BHEL has bagged an order worth ₹1,405 crore from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. for supply of 12 nuclear steam generators. The steam generators will be manufactured at the Tiruchirapalli plant of BHEL.
The order has been won under NPCIL’s Fleet Mode procurement programme and mandates supply of 12 steam generators for India’s highest rated indigenously-developed 700 MWe Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) to be set up at four different locations in the country, as per reports.
This is the second major supply order secured by BHEL through competitive bidding for the Fleet Mode implementation programme of 10×700 MWe nuclear projects. The first equipment order secured by BHEL under this programme for the supply of 32 Reactor Header Assemblies is under execution.
