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Category: Nuclear Technology
With India expecting to add 60000 MW over the next two decades, L&T the Indian engineering major expects to garner around Rs.40,000 to Rs.60,000 million worth of contract every year from nuclear power equipments, forgings and reactors. With this in mind, L&T has signed various technical agreements with global nuclear power players like GE Hitachi, Atomstroyexport (ASE), part of Rosatom of Russia; Toshiba Westinghouse of the US and Atomic Energy of Canada (AEC). It may be noted, L&T has experience in Indian nuclear power programme right from Tarapur power plant in 1974 to the recent Kudankulam nuclear plant. The company is also setting up a nuclear equipment forging shop at Hazira which will be ready by 2011.
