This will help in achieving an additional capacity of about 15,000 Mwe.
The project involves setting up six units of 1650 Mwe capacity each.
It will be equipped with two
RITM-200M reactors with a total capacity of 100 Mwe.
The second unit of Kudankulam
Nuclear Power Project attained its maximum capacity of 1,000 Mwe.
The design of 500 Mwe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor is completed
and the construction is in progress.
Which nuclear power plant on 8 June
2014 became the first nuclear power plant to generate 1000 Mwe?
India has an ambitious goal to increase 5-fold the amount of electricity
produced from nuclear power plants to 20,000 Mwe by 2020.
With the addition of Unit 1 of 1,000 Mwe capacity, nuclear power contribution in the country
will increase from 4,780 Mwe to 5,780 Mwe.
Presently NPCIL is operating seventeen nuclear power
plants with total installed capacity of 4120 Mwe, has five reactors under construction totaling 2660 Mwe capacity.
Construction of two further 1350 Mwe APR1400 pressurised water reactors at Shin Kori- units 5 and 6-
began in April 2017 and September 2018, respectively.
In toto, there are 434 units in operation in 26 countries with a capacity of 316,000 Mwe and
100 units are under construction with a capacity of 80,000 Mwe.
In practice, nuclear breeder reactors are the only large scale breeders that have been constructed as of 2014,
with the 600 Mwe BN-600 and 800 Mwe BN-800 reactor,
the two largest in operation.
For the next winter(if it's a normal winter),
they expect Sweden to import 400 Mwe more than it exports during the hour with the highest consumption,”
SVK electricity system analyst Erik Hellstrom was quoted as saying.