Having met the mandate of designing, developing, construction, commissioning, operating and maintaining the Heavy Water Plants in the country, challenge thrown for certain key inputs for the First phase & Second phase of the Indian Nuclear Power Programme were accepted by the Board and has taken up a variety of tasks under the diversification. By this HWB will be positioning it self as a key player in the front end as well as the back end of the Indian Nuclear Power Programme.

The following are the few areas of the diversification process:-

• Production of Tri-Butyl Phosphate and D2EPHA solvents for use as solvents in extraction of Uranium from secondary sources.
• Engineering, Project Management, construction and operation of a plant to produce Boron-10 and supply to PTFBR type reactors.
• Development of process & technology for production isotopes like O18 and C13 for use in nuclear medicine and biochemical research.
• Engineering, Construction and Operation of a plant to produce and supply of Nuclear grade Sodium to PTFBR type reactors.
• Setting up of a Boric Acid enrichment facility to meet the requirement of enriched Boron Carbide control rods for PFBRs.
• Setting up of a facility to produce elemental Boron at HWP,Manuguru.
• Setting up of a facility i.e. Centralised Uranium Oxide Conversion facility to convert Uranyl Nitrate from nuclear reactors.
• Process development, engineering is underway for production of other solvents like TAPO, TOPO etc.
• Construction of a Heavy Water Clean up facility to separate Tritium from the contaminated Heavy Water from the Nuclear reactors.
• Setting up of a technology development unit for production of Helium.
• Setting up of a R&D centre for developing new processes for isotope separation, solvent manufacturing, new catalysts etc. HWB is also carrying out R&D activity in developing a catalyst for exploiting the Hydrogen – Water Exchange process.