Construction of four India designed 700 MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR) are progressing at a quick pace and the first one is expected to go on stream end 2016 or early 2017, said senior officials of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL).
The NPCIL is building two 700 MW atomic power plants each at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat and Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS). For NPCIL that has been building 220 MW and 540 MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs), it is a major jump to go in for 700 MW PHWRs."It is the first of its kind reactor in the country," Mr. Lokesh Kumar, project director for the third and fourth units at KAPS told IANS over phone from Kakrapar in Gujarat.
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), the sec-toral regulator, is carefully poring over the reports submitted by the units before according its sanction.
NPCIL has two units of 220 MW each at KAPS which are operating successfully. It is the third unit at KAPS with a capacity of 700 MW that is expected to go op-with a capacity of 700 MW that is expected to go operational first out of the four under construction.
According to him, work on commissioning of the other systems have begun while the civil construction work is nearing completion. Though the first unit was expected to go on stream in 2015, owing to erratic supply of components the progress of work got delayed, Mr. Kumar said.
As to the percentage of physical progress, Mr. Kumar said the third unit is 75 percent complete and the fourth unit is 65 percent."The overall project cost for the two units is around Rs. 11,459 crores. The project would be completed within the budget. There will be no cost escalation," he added.
At RAPS where the other two 700 MW reactors are built at an outlay of Rs. 12,300 crores, the preparatory work to install the coolant channels are on for the seventh unit under construction. "Welding of end shield and calandria is over. Preparation work for core components - coolant channels - has started. It will take six months to complete," B.C. Pathak, project director for 7th and 8th units at RAPS, told IANS.
He said the seventh unit was expected to go on stream sometime in 2017-18. NPCIL already has six units at RAPS, with a total capacity of 1,180 MW (4x220 MW and one each of 100 MW and 200 MW).
(Source – Deccan Herald)
The NPCIL is building two 700 MW atomic power plants each at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat and Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS). For NPCIL that has been building 220 MW and 540 MW pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs), it is a major jump to go in for 700 MW PHWRs."It is the first of its kind reactor in the country," Mr. Lokesh Kumar, project director for the third and fourth units at KAPS told IANS over phone from Kakrapar in Gujarat.
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), the sec-toral regulator, is carefully poring over the reports submitted by the units before according its sanction.
NPCIL has two units of 220 MW each at KAPS which are operating successfully. It is the third unit at KAPS with a capacity of 700 MW that is expected to go op-with a capacity of 700 MW that is expected to go operational first out of the four under construction.
According to him, work on commissioning of the other systems have begun while the civil construction work is nearing completion. Though the first unit was expected to go on stream in 2015, owing to erratic supply of components the progress of work got delayed, Mr. Kumar said.
As to the percentage of physical progress, Mr. Kumar said the third unit is 75 percent complete and the fourth unit is 65 percent."The overall project cost for the two units is around Rs. 11,459 crores. The project would be completed within the budget. There will be no cost escalation," he added.
At RAPS where the other two 700 MW reactors are built at an outlay of Rs. 12,300 crores, the preparatory work to install the coolant channels are on for the seventh unit under construction. "Welding of end shield and calandria is over. Preparation work for core components - coolant channels - has started. It will take six months to complete," B.C. Pathak, project director for 7th and 8th units at RAPS, told IANS.
He said the seventh unit was expected to go on stream sometime in 2017-18. NPCIL already has six units at RAPS, with a total capacity of 1,180 MW (4x220 MW and one each of 100 MW and 200 MW).
(Source – Deccan Herald)
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