TEMA India Limited has commissioned the country’s first private-sector test facility for the upgradation of depleted heavy water at its nuclear manufacturing unit in Mumbai.
The facility has been designed and developed under a technology transfer agreement with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and a purchase order from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited. The project enables in-house testing and validation of high-precision components for pressurised heavy water reactors which were earlier tested exclusively at BARC facilities.