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| India's 18th N-plant begins commercial operations |
| 2010-02-06 |
| Mumbai, Feb 6 (PTI) India's 18th nuclear power plant at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan has begun commercial operations, the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPCIL) announced today. The indigenously built 220 MW unit of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) is using fuel imported from Russia which was acquired after India got a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group guidelines in September 2008. Of the 2,000 tonnes of fuel procured from Russia, about 120 tonnes has been earmarked for RAPS-5. RAPS-5 was synchronised to the Northern Grid on December 22 last year and began commercial operation from February 4, 2010, a NPCIL release said. The operationalisation of RAPS-5 increases the installed nuclear power capacity at the NPCIL's Rawatbhata site to 960 MW. The project, set up in September 2002, took six years to complete. It remained idle for some months because of lack of fuel. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 Basically a clone of the Canadian CANDU PHWR reactor - natural (un-enriched) uranium as fuel, heavy water as moderator. |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-02-06 10:38 |