April 16, 2012. Even as imported reactor-based atomic power projects are facing tardy progress, domestic nuclear sector firms are cashing in big-time on the demand for specialised nuclear services globally. The Heavy Water Board (HWB) has bagged a big export order for supplying 11,000 kg "high purity heavy water" from the US-based Linde Electronics and Speciality Gases, which is to use the compound as raw material in the manufacture of deuterated products. The Board is also close to wrapping up another export deal for supply of 15,000 kg heavy water to South Korea's KHNP — a subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power Corporation that operates large nuclear and hydroelectric plants — for use in its 700 MWe (mega watt electric) Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs), government said.