Tarapur Atomic Power Station

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The nuclear power plant at Tarapur ( Tarapur Atomic Power Station also - called TAPS ) is located in the Indian state of Maharashtra in Thane district. The reactors TAPS TAPS -1 and 2 were delivered turnkey of General Electric ( GE). Here are boiling water reactors, each with 160 MW capacity. There were at that time almost the first nuclear reactors in Asia (first was the JPDR, he had only 13 MW). The reactors are the only GE supplied to India, as the U.S. ended the cooperation because of the Indian nuclear weapons program and recordings until 2006.

On 9 May 1983 reported The Times of India, the Tarapur nuclear power plant is radioactive heavily contaminated and could hardly be operated. Prestige's staff would object exposed to the radioactive radiation far beyond the officially and internationally approved standard values ​​.

In Tarapur are also the first two Indian 500 MW-PHWR ( Pressurised heavy water reactor); them in heavy water is used as moderator. TAPS -4 was critical on 6 March 2005. TAPS -3 was connected on 15 June 2006 to the network. Since 18 August 2006 also provides TAPS -3 power for the network. The cost for the two reactors should be 6.5 billion rupees.

The boiling water reactor of Tarapur works with low-enriched uranium ( LEU), which was originally from the USA. Because of India's nuclear weapons program and the refusal of the then Indian government to allow IAEA inspections, the contract was terminated in 1979 by the United States. This is a requirement of the Nuclear Non - Proliferation Act of 1978, the supply of nuclear materials to preclude states that do not allow inspections by the IAEA. (see Non-Proliferation Treaty )

It was then arranged that the French deliver the LEU. This they did from 1983 to 1993, until the deliveries were stopped for the same reason. As of 1995, now delivered China, Russia since 2001.

Other systems

On the site can be found next to the generators since 1982 also PREFRE (Fuel Reprocessing Plant) and Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility ( AFFF ) for the production of MOX fuel and fuel assemblies for light water reactors (LWR ) and heavy water reactors ( PHWR ).

Since 1990 there is a Waste Immobilization Plant ( WIP), in which the nuclear waste is vitrified and a repository (Solid Storage Surveillance Facility) is to receive the waste from Tarapur and Trombai to 2010.

Data of the reactor units

The Tarapur nuclear power plant has a total of four blocks:

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