Rajasthan Atomic Power Station

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The Indian nuclear power plant, Rajasthan, also Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS ) or Rawatbhata Atomic Power Project ( RAPP ) called, is located about 65 kilometers from Kota removed at Chambal, about three kilometers upstream of the dam, which impounds the lake Rana Pratap Sagar. The facility is located in the state of Rajasthan, Chittorgarh district.

The nearest village is Tamlao. Rawatbhata is about eleven kilometers away. There the workers of the power plant are housed. In Kota is located since the 1980s, a factory for heavy water.

RAPS -1 is India's first pressurized water reactor with heavy water as moderator ( PHWR ). The construction was started in 1971 with Canadian aid as a 220 MW reactor; the reactor was August 11, 1972 critical. After the Indian nuclear test of May 18, 1974 in Pokharan to Canada withdrew from the collaboration. Therefore, the second reactor until October 1980 was critical.

After many incidents and repairs RAPS -2 has RAPS - 1 now 100 MW, about 200 MW.

As part of the Indian nuclear program three PHWR were built with a capacity of 220 MW. RAPS -3 was on 24 December 1999, RAPS -4 critically on 3 November 2000 and RAPS -5 on 22 December 2009. The finally block RAPS -6 was 28 March 2010 for the first time to the grid.

Two more reactors (RAPS -7 and RAPS -8) with a capacity of 540 MW are under construction, their completion is planned for 2017.

Accidents

February 2, 1994 was RAPS - 1 is turned off, since helium and tritium leaked from a valve. Once a method has been developed to seal the valve, the reactor was started up again on 31 March 1997.

In August 1994, RAPS -2 was shut down for 3 ½ years, as many cooling pipes leaked. They exchanged the Zircalloyrohre against more resistant pipes made of zirconium-niobium. After the repair, the reactor went on line again.

On May 5, 1998 after a leak in a heat exchanger, a large amount of tritium ran into the reservoir.

Data of the reactor units

The nuclear power station of Rajasthan has a total of six blocks:

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