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During the year 2000-01, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) recorded over all growth, achieved major successes, and took new initiatives in practically all the segments of the Nuclear Energy Programme.
Rajasthan Atomic Power Station 3 & 4
Four nuclear power reactors of 220 MWe capacity each commenced commercial operation; total electric power generation by all the nuclear power reactors was over 15350 million units, and their safety performance continued to be excellent. NPCIL successfully reduced the duration between criticality of the reactor to connection-to-grid to 14 days.
The carbide fuel for Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) reached a burnup of about 72,000 MWd/t and about 6 lakh units of electrical energy was generated by the reactor.
Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) designed by BARC, moved to the technology development phase.
Cumulative production of heavy water far exceeded the target and 16 MT of heavy water was exported. NFC crossed a milestone of manufacturing 2 lakh natural uranium oxide fuel bundles for PHWRs.
Indigenously developed synchrotron radiation source Indus-1 at Indore was in regular operation and Folded Tandem Ion Accelerator (FOTIA) was successfully commissioned at Trombay.
A high power transverse flow continuous wave carbon dioxide laser was developed by CAT for material processing applications.
BRIT supplied more than 50,000 consignments of radioisotope products valued at Rs.15.25 crore for use in health care, industry, research, and agriculture. ISOMED plant at Trombay sterilized about 13,000 cu.mtr. of medical products and Spice Plant at Vashi, Navi Mumbai processed about 350 tonnes of spices.
Blackgram (Urid) and Soyabean varieties were released to farmers.
ANUPAM Supercomputer of BARC operated successfully.
A 40 cum/day desalination plant for producing drinking water, was installed at Trombay.
A total of 10 technologies were transferred by BARC.
India signed agreements/ MoUs with Thailand, IAEA, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Russian Federation.
Following is the panorama of the activities of DAE during the period :
Power Generation & Projects
During the year 2000, four units of 220 MWe each (Kaiga-l&2 and RAPP-3&4) commenced commercial operation, adding 880 megawatts to the installed nuclear power generating capacity. Now India has in operation 12 pressurised heavy water reactors and 2 boiling water reactors with a total of 2720 megawatt capacity.
Monthly Nuclear Power Generation (Excluding Raps-1)
Unitwise Nuclear power generation
| Unit/Station | Generation in Million Units During Calendar Year Jan-Dec 2000 |
Capacity Factor |
Generation in Million Units during Financial Year April 2000- March 2001 |
Capacity Factor during April 2000 to March 2001 |
Availability Factor During April 2000 to March 2001 |
TAPS-1 TAPS-2 TAPS |
1296 1122 2418 |
92 80 86 |
955 775 1730 |
90 73 82 |
93 75 |
RAPS-1 RAPS-2 RAPS |
772 1628 2400 |
59 93 78 |
517 1193 1710 |
52@ 90 74 |
51 91 |
MAPS-1 MAPS-2 MAPS |
765 1439 2204 |
51 96 74 |
759 1067 1826 |
68 95 81 |
67 93 |
NAPS-1 NAPS-2 NAPS |
1556 1487 3043 |
81 77 79 |
1105 1079 2184 |
76 74 75 |
83 79 |
KAPS-1 KAPS-2 KAPS |
1850 1674 3524 |
96 87 92 |
1375 1188 2563 |
95 82 89 |
96 84 |
Kaiga-l Kaiga-2 Kaiga |
224$ 1215$ 1439 |
73 73 73 |
224$ 1113 1337 |
73 77 76 |
75 79 |
RAPS-3 RAPS-4 RAPS-3&4 |
1024# 73# 1097 |
79 89 84 |
1009* 73* 1082 |
79 89 80 |
83 100 |
$ Includes 48 MUs and 99 MUs of precommercial generation from Kaiga-l and Kaiga-2 respectively.
# Includesl29 MUs and 31 MUs of precommercial generation from RAPS-3 & RAPS-4 respectively.
* Includes 114 MUs and 31 MUs of pre-commercial generation from RAPS-3 and RAPS-4 respectively.
@ The capacity factor has been worked out based on the present power level of 150 MWe as authorized by AERB.
NPCIL successfully reduced the duration between criticality to connection-to-grid drastically. The record of 16 days between attaining criticality to connection-to-grid, set by Unit-1 of Kaiga Atomic Power Station, was bettered by the Unit-4 of Rajasthan Atomic Power Station which came on-line in 14 days after criticality.
The cumulative power generation by NPCIL was over 161 billion units of electricity till January 31, 2001. During 2000, the total electric power generation by the reactor units reached a record high of over 15350 million units, marking an increase of about 23% over the previous year’s performance. In fact, the nuclear power sector has been performing at an average annual growth rate of 22% since 1994.
The capacity factor, which was 75% in 1998-99, rose to 82% during April- December 2000 period.
NPCIL is expected to generate a net profit of about Rs.313 crore for the year 2000-01 as compared to the net profit of Rs. 85 crore for the previous year. For the financial year 1999-2000, NPCIL has paid Rs. 61.48 crore as dividend to the Government.
NPCIL is setting up two 500 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors at Tarapur, Maharashtra. 20% of the project was completed. Preparation of the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the two advanced light water reactors at Kudankulam (Tamil Nadu), reached final stages of completion.
Pre-project activities of Kaiga-3&4 Project (2x220 MWe) were taken up.
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