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Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), a Mumbai-based infrastructure major, has bagged a Rs 763-crore contract from the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), for erecting structures of a Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle Facility (FRFCF) at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu.
The company will construct nuclear safety compliant structures for the fuel processing plant for fast breeder reactors and allied facilities. The project duration is 48 months, the company said in a statement.
This is the fourth contract awarded to HCC by IGCAR. Prior to this order, the company has received three contracts from IGCAR to build administrative blocks, townships and metallic fuel plants.
The Rs 9,589-crore Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle Facility (FRFCF) project for recycling fuel of India’s first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam was sanctioned by the government in July 2013. The project was executed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), a major industrial unit of the Department of Atomic Energy, and IGCAR, which was in charge of construction work.
HCC has already executed several contracts for the Department of Atomic Energy, including the first phase of an Integrated Nuclear Recycle Plant of BARC in Tarapur and units 7 and 8 of the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PWHR) at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan, for NPCIL.
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