RAPS-I nuclear reactor sets new record
Wednesday - October 3, 2018 10:00 pm ,
Category : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Mumbai Oct 3 (IANS) The Rajasthan Atomic Power Station Unit 3 (RAPS-3) has set a new record of continuous 766 days of operations on Wednesday breaking the earlier record of the RAPS-5 of 765 days of non-stop operations in 2014 an official said here.
Another 220-MW nuclear reactor of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) at Kaiga the KGS-1 has been operating without break for the past 873 days now.
So far on 28 occasions NPCIL s reactors around the country have demonstrated continuous operations of over a year said the official.
"The consistent safe and reliable operation of reactors for long periods bears testimony to the maturity achieved in nuclear power technology " said A.K. Nema NPCIL s AD (CP&CC).
NPCIL operates 22 reactors with a total capacity of 6780-MW power generation capacity including the 100-MW RAPS-I at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.
However the RAPS-I which started commercial operations in December 1973 is now under "an extended shutdown" since October 2004 for techno-economic assessment of its continuance.
--IANS qn/prs
Another 220-MW nuclear reactor of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) at Kaiga the KGS-1 has been operating without break for the past 873 days now.
So far on 28 occasions NPCIL s reactors around the country have demonstrated continuous operations of over a year said the official.
"The consistent safe and reliable operation of reactors for long periods bears testimony to the maturity achieved in nuclear power technology " said A.K. Nema NPCIL s AD (CP&CC).
NPCIL operates 22 reactors with a total capacity of 6780-MW power generation capacity including the 100-MW RAPS-I at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.
However the RAPS-I which started commercial operations in December 1973 is now under "an extended shutdown" since October 2004 for techno-economic assessment of its continuance.
--IANS qn/prs
