By Xinhua,
New Delhi : India has received the first consignment of uranium fuel from Russia for unit-1 of 1000 MW Kudankulam nuclear power project, according to the NDTV Tuesday.
The Kudankulam nuclear power project, comprising of two units of 1000 MW each, are at an advanced stage of completion in technical collaboration with the Russian Federation and the Low Enriched Uranium fuel for its first unit arrived at Kudankulam, in Tamil Nadu state of India Sunday.
The Kudankulam Nuclear power project is under construction at Kudankulam located in Radhapuram taluka of Tamil Nadu. The project is set up through a bilateral agreement between the erstwhile USSR and India.
The life time fuel supply for Kudankulam reactors is covered through a sovereign guarantee of Russian Federation.
Under the Indo-Russian collaboration, India can reprocess the spent fuel from these reactors and all the activities at Kudankulam will be under International Atomic Energy Agency’s safeguards.