Ranchi-based state-owned Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) has successfully initiated, developed and produced a crucial component for a nuclear plant through a process of special quality forgings for Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai.
Director of BARC and member, Atomic Energy Commission, Dr Srikumar Banerjee, flagged off the product from the shop floor of Foundry Forge Plant (FFP) of HEC on August 16.
G K Pillai, chairman and managing director (CMD) of HEC, said that as a step forward in making the country self- reliant in the field of nuclear energy, HEC aimed to provide a series of high quality ultra clean steel forgings to BARC, Mumbai.
HEC met the stringent quality requirements of forgings with the strong support and single point clearance from BARC which had been instrumental in nurturing this special project with HEC, he said.
Pillai said that the biggest forgings in this series involved making an ingot of 120 T weight under a vacuum level of less than one Torr.
This forging met all the quality requirements of reactor pressure vessel material for pressurized light water reactor.
The HEC chief claimed that the PsU was one of the few in the world, which had established the capability to manufacture such high quality forgings with its excellent infrastructure at FFP, one of the divisions of HEC.
