The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has announced that the fourth 700 MW unit at its Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP) in Gujarat (western India) has commenced operations at its full power. The reactor KAPS-4 is an Indian Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor-700 (IPHWR-700), the second Indian-designed unit that began construction in 2011 and entered commercial operations on 31 March 2024 at 90% of its capacity. The increased capacity is expected to help the performance of its twin unit KAPS-3. The company plans to install sixteen IPHWR-700 throughout India, and the necessary financial and administrative approval for these projects has been granted and they are currently at various stages of development, with all of them being expected to become operational by 2032.
The NPCIL operates a fleet of 24 reactors with a total capacity of over 8 GW in India, with an additional capacity of 6.8 GW under construction and another 7 GW of generation capacity going through early planning stages.
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