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UCIL Uranium Expansion Plan

October 10 , 2026 12 hrs 0 min 19 0

Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) plans to double uranium output by 2036 through new mines and uranium recovery from copper residues.
India aims to increase domestic uranium availability to support its growing nuclear power programme, which currently has a capacity of around 9 gigawatts (GW).
UCIL supplies roughly one-third of the uranium required from domestic sources, while India depends on imports because its uranium resources are relatively limited and low-grade.
The proposed Rohil uranium project in Rajasthan will have the capacity to mine and process 2,500 tonnes of uranium ore per day.
The Gogi project in Karnataka is at an early stage, with UCIL awaiting precise demarcation of the area from the State government.
Two other proposed uranium mining projects are planned in Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
UCIL is a public sector enterprise under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), established in 1967 and headquartered at Jaduguda, East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand.
UCIL is India’s only company statutorily authorised to extract and process uranium ore, using underground mining, opencast mining and chemical processing of low-grade uranium ores.
India’s three-stage nuclear power programme envisages a gradual long-term shift towards thorium in its second and third stages.