BHAVINI

Name: BHAVINI
Address: DAE Nodal Centre, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Pallavaram – Cantonment,Chennai – 600 043., Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Industrials In DAE Nodal Centre, Dr. Ambedkar Road, Pallavaram – Cantonment,Chennai – 600 043., Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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About BHAVINI

The Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI) is a wholly owned Enterprise of Government of India under the administrative control of the Department of Atomic Energy incorporated on 22 October 2003 as Public Limited Company under the companies act, 1956 with the objective of constructing and commissioning the first 500 MWe Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR) at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu and to pursue construction, commissioning, operation and maintenance of subsequent Fast Breeder Reactors for generation of electricity in pursuance of the schemes and programmes of Government of India under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962. BHAVINI is currently constructing a 500MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam, 70 km from Chennai.

BHAVINI is administered by the Department of Atomic Energy. Once the first fast breeder reactor, called Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor goes into commercial power production, BHAVINI will be the second power utility in India after Nuclear Power Corporation of India, to use nuclear fuel sources to generate power.

BHAVINI Features

In India’s three stages of Nuclear power programme, BHAVINI paves way as a forerunner in second stage by building a 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam. It is entrusted with a mandate to construct, commission and operate the Fast Breeder Reactors to provide energy security for the nation in long run.

PFBR is constructed indigenously with the involvement of major Indian industries and sustained power operation of this reactor will be a feather in the cap in line with the nation’s ‘Aatma Nirbhar Bharat’ campaign. This will also pave way for the future growth of BHAVINI with the plan of constructing two more FBRs, in the adjoining site of PFBR at Kalpakkam and a fleet of future FBRs in other probable sites.

The overall construction of PFBR and commissioning of individual systems have been completed and the integrated commissioning of various systems is steadily progressing. After establishing integrated commissioning of the systems, it is planned to fill sodium in the Main Vessel and the primary loops. After purification of sodium, starting of the Primary Sodium Pumps and isothermal operations, initiation of fuel loading in the core will commence towards first approach to criticality.

BHAVINI is marching ahead in its activities with the sustained support from all the units of Department of Atomic Energy and other stakeholders.