Nuclear Power Coproration of India

(Picture : Work in progress at Kudankulam (Tamilnad state) site)
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Total Nuclear Power Generation Capacity: 2770 MWe

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Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd. (NPCIL) is the public sector company which owns, constructs and operates nuclear power plants in India. NPCIL which is spearheading the nuclear power programme in India plans to put up a total installed nuclear power capacity of 20,000 MWe by the year 2020.

India's Nuclear Power Programme has fourteen reactors in operation that includes 2 Boiling Water Reactors (BWR) and 12 Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR). It has eight power reactors under construction at present of which  two PHWRs of 540 MWe capacity each are at Tarapur in Maharashtra, four 220 Mwe capacity power reactors two each at Kaiga (Karnataka) and Rawatbhata (Rajasthan) and two VVERs of 1000 MWe capacity each at Kudankulam(Tamilnadu).

Operating Nuclear Power Reactors

  
Location
Type/Capacity
Tarapur BWR/2x160 MWe
Rajasthan PHWR/1x100, 1x200 MWe and 2 X 220 Mwe 
Kalpakkam PHWR/Unit 1-170 MWe Unit 2-220 MWe
Narora PHWR/2x220 MWe
Kakrapara PHWR/2x220 MWe
Kaiga 2 PHWR units of 220 MWe

Nuclear Power Reactors Under Construction

Location
Type/Capacity
 		Expected Criticality Date
Tarapur 
(3 & 4)		 PHWR/2x540 MWe
  • Unit 3- July 2006 
  • Unit 4- October 2005 (Attained Criticality on 06-March-2005) 
Kaiga 
(3& 4)		 PHWR / 2x220 MWe
  • Unit 3- December 2006
  • Unit 4- June 2007
Rajasthan 
( 5 & 6)		 PHWR/ 2x220 MWe 
  • Unit 5- May 2007
  • Unit 6- November 2007
Kudankulam 
Tamilnadu		 VVER/ 2 x 1000 MWe
  • The project is being implemented under the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) signed between India and a Supplement to the IGA signed between India and  Russian Federation .
    • Unit - 1 2007
    • Unit - 2 2008 

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