Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has received the first consignment of uranium fuel from the Russia Federation for unit-1 of 1,000-MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, according to a release issued by the corporation. The project, located in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district, comprises two units of 1,000-MW each. It is being built with technical collaboration from the Russian Federation. According to Mr A.I. Siddiqui of Nuclear Power Corporation of India, through a sovereign guarantee of the Russian Federation, an assured fuel supply for the next 60 years has been made available to the project. The construction activities are being carried out round the clock at the project site and 86 per cent of the work has been completed. All major components have already been set up at the site. Concurrently, the pre-commissioning activities have commenced. Indian engineers and scientists have also been trained and qualified for commissioning, operation and maintenance activities. Advance design The two units of the project belong to advance design of VVER family, a pressurised water reactor constituting a majority of power reactors in the world. These reactors use light-enriched uranium as fuel. In many countries, since the 1980s, this kind of fuel is in use in VVER (1,000-MW units), the release said. The project was set up through a bilateral agreement between the erstwhile USSR and India.