Hot Run of KNPP Unit II Successful - To Start Power Generation By August

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Start-up of 2nd power unit at India’s Kudankulam NPP planned for summer — Rosatom​

The second unit of the Kudankulam NPP will be launched in the summer of 2015 and this year surely​

KAZAN, May 15. /TASS/. The start-up of the second power unit at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, which India is building with Russia’s assistance, is scheduled for the summer of 2015, Russian civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom Deputy Head Alexander Lokshin said on Friday.

"The second unit of the Kudankulam NPP will be launched in the summer of 2015 and this year surely," the Rosatom official said, adding the final launch dates would depend on the Indian side.

The second unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) is likely to generate electricity by August 2015, as officials are preparing to load real fuel in its reactor.

"The steam flow path and steam relief devices have been tested successfully during the hot run process. Dummy fuel loading will continue for another one week", KNPP Site Director R S Sundar told Deccan Herald on Sunday, adding that the dummy fuel would be removed and real fuel will be loaded soon after securing clearance from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). Like Unit 1, reactor at the second unit will also be loaded with fuel assemblies containing Uranium Oxide.

In 2010, Russia and India signed a roadmap envisaging the construction of up to 14 or 16 Russian-design power units in India.

Source:- TASS: Economy - Start-up of 2nd power unit at India’s Kudankulam NPP planned for summer — Rosatom
KNPP Unit 2 to generate power by Aug

 

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Start-up of 2nd power unit at India’s Kudankulam NPP planned for summer — Rosatom​

The second unit of the Kudankulam NPP will be launched in the summer of 2015 and this year surely​

KAZAN, May 15. /TASS/. The start-up of the second power unit at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, which India is building with Russia’s assistance, is scheduled for the summer of 2015, Russian civilian nuclear power corporation Rosatom Deputy Head Alexander Lokshin said on Friday.

"The second unit of the Kudankulam NPP will be launched in the summer of 2015 and this year surely," the Rosatom official said, adding the final launch dates would depend on the Indian side.

The second unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) is likely to generate electricity by August 2015, as officials are preparing to load real fuel in its reactor.

"The steam flow path and steam relief devices have been tested successfully during the hot run process. Dummy fuel loading will continue for another one week", KNPP Site Director R S Sundar told Deccan Herald on Sunday, adding that the dummy fuel would be removed and real fuel will be loaded soon after securing clearance from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). Like Unit 1, reactor at the second unit will also be loaded with fuel assemblies containing Uranium Oxide.

In 2010, Russia and India signed a roadmap envisaging the construction of up to 14 or 16 Russian-design power units in India.

Source:- TASS: Economy - Start-up of 2nd power unit at India’s Kudankulam NPP planned for summer — Rosatom
KNPP Unit 2 to generate power by Aug

Great news hope this eases the power situation in south

 

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We need a nuke park there . Throw ngos and see how india develop.

 

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We need a nuke park there . Throw ngos and see how india develop.

NPP's come with infrastructure developments in and around the location - I visited Narora NPP in UP and was surprised to find it's infrastructure way better than what we have in old Lucknow - 24x7 Water and Electricity Supply, lots of open spaces and parks in NPP employees housing societies full of greenries and free and regular transportation facilities from the colony to the plant site and the nearest city Aligarh and back which the locals love to exploit. Their own community and shopping centers, schools and hospitals which are open for everyone including the locals. What is more important are those local employment opportunities that these power plants bring to the locals - a majority of those working in Narora NPP are the locals recruited from the village (Narora and adjoining areas were essentially rural before the advent of NPP). They earn a handsome salary and live a better life than they would have lived if they had to chose agriculture as their means of livelihood. NPP's are a blessing for those areas in which they are built.

And for the NGO's - I wonder if they would actually exist to "see" all this - they are already fcuked up!

Foreign funding: Govt cancels licences of nearly 9,000 NGOs | The Indian Express

 

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Kudankulam units achieve construction and operation milestones​

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has announced that construction of unit 2 of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu has been completed. In a 14 July statement, AERB also said that it had issued a licence for the regular operation of unit 1, which entered commercial operation on 31 December, and a siting permit for a project to build four reactors in Gorakhpur in Haryana.

Kudankulam units 1 and 2 (Image: Rosatom)​

"The construction of unit 2 of KK-NNPP is complete and the unit is presently undergoing initial commissioning activities," AERB said.

Of the newly issued licence for unit 1, AERB said its safety review had confirmed the reactor satisfies regulatory requirements and current international safety standards.

Subsequent to first criticality of unit 1 achieved on 12 July 2013, plant owner Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) was permitted to increase the reactor's rated power level in stages, for the completion of specified commissioning tests, and to synchronize the unit with the southern grid, at various power levels up to 100% of its rated power.

AERB's latest decision regarding the reactor is "the culmination of an in-depth review over many years of the safety aspects related to design, construction and commissioning of the unit with respect to compliance with the specified requirements," AERB said. "The reviews have included checks to ensure that quality assurance norms have been followed and the commissioning systems meet the acceptance criteria for safe operations." AERB personnel monitored the entire commissioning period, it added.

Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana (GHAVP) is a nuclear power plant construction project to build four 700 MWe units. These proposed units belong to a new generation of indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs), AERB said. GHAVP units 1 to 4 will be a "repeat design" of Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP 3 and 4) and the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP 7 and 8), which are "in advanced stages of construction", AERB said. These PHWRs will have additional passive safety design features for enhanced levels of safety, it added.

AERB said it had granted siting clearance for GHAVP following an extensive multi-tier safety review of the application and supporting documents that NPCIL had submitted. The review was conducted in accordance with the requirements of the latest AERB safety code on the site evaluation of nuclear facilities issued last year. This included a review of the radiological impact of the proposed plant. The application subsequently underwent a review by AERB's Committee for Review of Security of Nuclear Facilities and the Advisory Committee for Project Safety Review of PHWR.

"The Board of AERB, being the final authority with respect to decisions on issuance of consents, after examining the overall status of the safety reviews related to the siting of GHAVP, has accorded the approval for issuing the siting consent," AERB said. The Ministry of Environment and Forests granted environmental clearance for the project in December 2013.

India has a flourishing and largely indigenous nuclear power program and expects to have 14,600 MWe of nuclear capacity on line by 2020. It aims to supply 25% of electricity from nuclear power by 2050.

Kudankulam is the country's first large nuclear power plant, comprising two VVER-1000 (V-412) reactors, under a Russian-financed $3 billion contract and built as part of a bilateral agreement between India and Russia signed back in 1988. The units were originally scheduled to begin commercial operation in December 2007 and December 2008 respectively.

In April 2015 the government gave in principle approval for new nuclear plants at ten sites in nine states. Those for indigenous PHWRs are: Gorakhpur in Haryana's Fatehabad; Chutka and Bhimpur in Madhya Pradesh; Kaiga in Karnataka; and Mahi Banswara in Rajasthan. Those for plants with foreign cooperation are: Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu (VVER); Jaitapur in Maharashtra (EPR); Chhaya Mithi Virdhi in Gujarat (AP1000); Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh (ESBWR) and Haripur in West Bengal (VVER), though this location had been in doubt. In addition, two 600 MWe fast breeder reactors are proposed at Kalpakkam.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said last December, following talks in Delhi with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that Russia is willing to help India build "more than" 20 new nuclear power units.

Source:- Kudankulam units achieve construction and operation milestones