NEW DELHI: A cargo flight transported the first batch of VVER-1000 fuel assemblies from the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant in southwestern Siberia to India, Rosatom said in a statement on Thursday. A total of seven flights from Russia are planned to supply the entire reactor core and some reserve fuel. These shipments are provided under a contract signed in 2024, which includes fuel supply for the third and fourth VVER-1000 reactors of the Kudankulam plant for the entire service life, starting from initial loading. The Russian side said that since 2022, newer TVS-2M fuel had been introduced at India’s two operational VVER-1000 plants Kudankulam unit-1 and unit-2, which led to “improved performance” and longer 18-month operating cycles. According to Rosatom, the Kudankulam

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