Kirloskar Brothers develops critical application sodium pumps for Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactors

 Indigenously developed world-class technology from Kirloskar Brothers to cool down the India’s 1st 500 MW Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor being set up by BHAVINI
Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. (KBL) handed over its technological marvel to the first-of-its-kind 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) project in India underway by Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI).
BHAVINI, the wholly owned Enterprise of Government of India under the administrative control of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), is constructing India’s first 500 MWe pool type, sodium cooled nuclear reactor in the country at Kalpakkam, 70 kms away from Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
Dr. Prabhat Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director, BHAVINI flagged off the “1st Primary Sodium Pumps (PSP)” from the 100 year old Kirloskarvadi plant of Kirloskar Brothers Limited. The three PSPs manufactured in Kirloskarvadi – India’s second oldest industrial township – weigh 135 tonnes and they will handle 5.16 lakh litres of liquid Sodium per minute when installed at Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR). At 590 RPM (rotations per minute), these technological marvels will handle liquid sodium at 400 C to 550 C.

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