The Nuclear Power Plant in India

  3.Kakrapar Atomic Power Station             Kaiga Atomic Power Station is India's third largest nuclear power station. It is located in Kaiga, Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka state. The plant is run by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).             The first two Kaiga Atomic Power Station units were built under Russian technology transfer. The Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant in Russia supplied the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 1. The remaining engineering components for both units were made by BHEL's "Pressure Parts" division.             Kaiga Atomic Power Station is India's first large-scale nuclear plant. It is a two-unit pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) power plant in Kaiga, Kaveri River basin, near Karwar, Sindh.It was built by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), a Public Sector Undertaking of the Indian government's Department of Atom...

2.Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant                 The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, is India's largest nuclear power station , with a current installed capacity of 2GW.The state-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) owns and operates the power station, which is being expanded with two under-construction units and two planned 1,000MW units.                 The Kudankulam NPP will consist of six Russian-designed VVER-1000 pressurised water reactor (PWR) units with a total capacity of 6GW.Units one and two of the plant have been in commercial operation since December 2014 and March 2017, respectively, while building on units three and four began in June and October 2017, with commissioning scheduled for 2022 and 2023, respectively. Location :Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India Planned Capacity : 6GW Number of Reactors :Six Reactor Type : VVER-1000 pressurised water react...

  The Nuclear Power Plant in India                      Tarapur Atomic Power Station-             The Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS), located near Boisar in Maharashtra, is India's oldest nuclear power facility.The power plant consists of two 120MW boiling water reactor (BWR) units, which were commissioned in October 1969, and two pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR) units, which were commissioned in 2005 and 2006.               The state-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NCPIL) owns and operates the Tarapur nuclear power facility, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in October 2019.After 30 years of operation, the plant's first two units were extensively rebuilt following a rigorous safety review conducted by India's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).                 As of September 2019, the power plant...