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| Madras Atomic Power Station |
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| Data |
| Country |
India |
| Operator |
Nuclear Power Corporation of India LTD. |
| Built |
1970 |
| Start of commercial operation |
January 24, 1984 |
| Reactors |
| Reactors active |
2 (440 MW) |
| Reactors under construction |
1 (500 MW) |
| Power |
| Total power generation in 2006 |
2,311 GW·h |
| Average annual generation (last 5 yrs) |
1,476 GW·h |
| Net generation |
37,546 GW·h |
| Other details |
Website
Nuclear Power Corporation of India |
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As of July 24, 2007
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Madras Atomic Power Station located at Kalpakkam about 80 km south of Chennai, India, is a comprehensive nuclear power production, fuel reprocessing, and waste treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for fast breeder reactors [FBRs]. It is also India's first fully indegenously constructed nuclear power station. It has two units of 170 MWe capacity each. The first and second units of the station went critical in 1983 and 1985 respectively. The station has reactors housed in a reactor building with double shell containment ensuring total protection even in the remotest possibility of loss of coolant accident. An Interim Storage Facility [ISF] is also located in Kalpakkam.
[edit] Reactors
The facility houses two indigenously built CANDU type PHWRs called MAPS-1 and MAPS-2.MAPS-1 was completed in 1981, but start-up was delayed due to a shortage of heavy water. After procuring the necessary heavy water, the MAPS-1 went critical in 1983 and began operating at full power in January 1984. MAPS-2 obtained criticality in 1985 and began full power operations in March 1986. The two Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) are capable of generating 170MWe each which is lower than the designed power of 235MWe since some zircaloy pieces from the cracked cooling system was found in a moderator pump.[1]
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Coordinates: 12°33′30″N 80°10′30″E / 12.55833°N 80.175°E / 12.55833; 80.175
