Kakrapar Nuclear Plant: NPCIL is constructing two 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors at Kakrapar.

New Delhi:

India’s first indigenously developed 700 MW nuclear energy plant in Gujarat’s Kakrapar has began operations at full capability, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned on Thursday.

The reactor on the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP) had began business operations on June 30 however was working at 90 per cent of its capability until now.

“India achieves another milestone. The first largest indigenous 700 MWe Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant Unit-3 in Gujarat starts operations at full capacity. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers,” PM Modi mentioned on ‘X’, previously often called Twitter.

India achieves one other milestone.

The first largest indigenous 700 MWe Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant Unit-3 in Gujarat begins operations at full capability.

Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 31, 2023

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is constructing two 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs) at Kakrapar, which can also be house to 2 220 MW energy vegetation.

Various commissioning actions have been underway at KAPP 4, which had achieved 97.56 per cent progress by July, in accordance with officers.

The NPCIL plans to construct 16 700 MW PHWRs throughout the nation and has granted monetary and administrative sanctions for a similar.

Construction of 700 MW nuclear energy vegetation is underway at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan (RAPS 7 and eight) and at Gorakhpur in Haryana (GHAVP 1 and a couple of).

The authorities has sanctioned the constructing of 10 indigenously developed PHWRs in fleet mode at 4 places — Gorakhpur in Haryana, Chutka in Madhya Pradesh, Mahi Banswara in Rajasthan and Kaiga in Karnataka.

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