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Some 13,000 valves are required in a modern nuclear power plant .
power reactors with an installed capacity of 6.7 GW , while five are under construction . In 2010 , the Indian government set an ambitious target to have 14.6 GW nuclear capacity by 2024 .
Operating units :
• Tarapur Atomic Power Station Units-1 & 2 ( 2x160 MW BWRs )
• Tarapur Atomic Power Station Units-3 & 4 ( 2x540 MW PHWRs )
• Rajasthan Atomic Power Station Units 1to6 ( RAPS-1 100 MW , RAPS-2 200 MW and RAPS-3to6,4x220 MW PHWRs )
• Madras Atomic Power Station Units-1 & 2 ( 2x220 MW PHWRs )
• Narora Atomic Power Station Units-1 & 2 ( 2x220 MW PHWRs )
• Kakrapar Atomic Power Station Units-1 & 2 ( 2x220 MW PHWRs ),
• Kaiga Generating Station Unit-1 to 4 ( 4x220 MW PHWRs )
• Kudankulam Nuclear Power Station Unit-1 & 2 ( 2x1000 MW VVER )
In addition , NPCIL also has a 10 MW Wind Power Plant at Kudankulam site .
The units under construction are :
• Kakrapar Atomic Power Project Unit- 3 & 4 ( 2x700 MW PHWRs )
• Rajasthan Atomic Power Project Units-7 & 8 ( 2x700 MW PHWRs )
• Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidhyut Pariyojna Units-1 & 2 ( 2x700 MW PHWRs )
• Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project Unit-3 & 4 ( 2x1000 MW VVER )
• Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project Unit-5 & 6 ( 2x1000 MW VVER )
In addition to these , Government of India has accorded administrative approval and financial sanction for ten PHWR units to be set up in fleet mode with unit size of 700 MW each at Kaiga Unit-5 & 6 , ( Kaiga , Karnataka ) Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidhyut Pariyojna Unit-3 & 4 ( Gorakhpur , Haryana ), Chutka Madhya Pradesh Atomic Power Project Unit 1 & 2 ( Chutka , Madhya Pradesh ) and Mahi Banswara Rajasthan
Sources https :// www . energy . gov / ne / articles / 3-reasons-why-nuclear-clean-and-sustainable https :// www . nei . org / fundamentals / what-is-nuclear-energy https :// education . nationalgeographic . org / resource / nuclear-energy https :// world-nuclear . org / information-library / country-profiles / countries-g-n / india . aspx https :// www . npcil . nic . in / content / 328 _ 1 _ AboutNPCIL . aspx
Atomic Power Project Unit-1 to 4 ( Mahi Banswara , Rajasthan ).
The world view
Nuclear energy now provides about 10 % of the world ’ s electricity from about 440 power reactors . About 55 more reactors are under construction in 15 countries , equivalent to approximately 15 % of existing capacity . As of 2020 , France gets around 70 % of its electricity from nuclear energy , while Ukraine , Slovakia , Belgium , and Hungary get about half from nuclear . Bangladesh , Belarus , Turkey , and the United Arab Emirates are all constructing their first nuclear power plants . Several other countries are moving towards use of nuclear energy for power production . www . valve-world . net Valve World November 2022
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