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| Madras Atomic Power Station |
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| Data |
| Country |
India |
| Owner |
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 GWh |
| Average annual generation (last 5 yrs) |
1,476 GWh |
| Net generation |
37,546 GWh |
| Other details |
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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.
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Coordinates: 12°33′30″N, 80°10′30″E
