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New Indian reactor started |
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India has started its new 490-megawatt (MW) Tarapur-4 pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), which will be the largest reactor in the country.
The reactor is one of two 490 MW PHWRs being built next to existing boiling water reactors (BWRs) Tarapur-1 and Tarapur-2 at the Tarapur nuclear power plant, 100 kilometres north of Mumbai. It is expected to enter commercial operation in August 2005, with Tarapur-3 following nine months later.
This will bring the total number of reactors in India to 15 (13 of them PHWRs). The unit uses Indian designs and technology and achieved criticality on 6 March 2005, five years after first concrete was poured, the shortest time taken to build any PHWR in India. |
