Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam

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Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam is one of India's earliest nuclear power plants, located on the Coromandel Coast in Tamil Nadu and operated by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf nuclear power plant
alsoKnownAs MAPS NERFINISHED
coast Coromandel Coast NERFINISHED
commissioned 1984
commissionedUnit1 1984
commissionedUnit2 1986
connectedTo Indian national power grid
coolant heavy water
coolingSource Bay of Bengal NERFINISHED
country India
designedBy Bhabha Atomic Research Centre NERFINISHED
distanceFromChennai_km about 80
district Chengalpattu district NERFINISHED
fuelType natural uranium
governingMinistry Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India NERFINISHED
gridCode Southern Region Load Despatch Centre jurisdiction
gridConnection Southern Regional Grid of India NERFINISHED
gridState Tamil Nadu NERFINISHED
grossElectricalCapacity_MW 470
locatedOn Bay of Bengal coast NERFINISHED
location Kalpakkam NERFINISHED
moderator heavy water
nearbyFacility Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research NERFINISHED
Kalpakkam nuclear complex NERFINISHED
netElectricalCapacity_MW 440
numberOfReactors 2
oneOfEarliestNuclearPlantsIn India NERFINISHED
operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited NERFINISHED
ownedBy Government of India
Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited NERFINISHED
partOf India’s commercial nuclear power programme NERFINISHED
previousDistrictName Kanchipuram district NERFINISHED
purpose electricity generation
research support
reactorType PHWR
pressurized heavy water reactor
region South India
regulatoryAuthority Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India NERFINISHED
regulatoryFramework Atomic Energy Act of India NERFINISHED
safetySystem containment building
emergency core cooling system
sector civil nuclear power
siteType coastal site
state Tamil Nadu
status operational
technologyOrigin Indian-designed PHWR technology
unit MAPS-1 NERFINISHED
MAPS-2 NERFINISHED

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