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Nuclear Power Corporation of India

Nuclear Power Corporation of India is the nuclear steam supply system vendor for 38 reactor units on record, 19 of them operating, totalling 6.2 GW of gross capacity across 1 country.

Operating units
19
6.2 GW gross
Under construction
3
Planned
10
Retired
0

Operator of the Indian fleet and designer of its indigenous pressurised heavy water reactors, which Global Energy Monitor records under the model name "Horizontal Pressure Tube type". The standardised 220 MWe and 700 MWe PHWR designs make up most of the Indian fleet.

Company
HeadquartersMumbai, India
Founded1987
Ownershipstate
Roles in the chainvendor, operator
Installed base by country
India19

Nuclear Power Corporation of India in context

In reprocessing Nuclear Power Corporation of India holds 260 of the 3,860 tHM/yr of world reprocessing capacity in 2022 (6.7%), ranking 4th of the 4 named operators in the source.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India is the reactor vendor for 19 of the 419 operating units on record (4.5%), 8th of 13 vendors by operating units, 6,240 MW gross in total.

The median age of its operating units is 26.0 years, against 39.0 for the whole operating fleet.

Its 19 finished units with construction and grid dates took a median 10.1 years to build, against 6.0 across all finished reactors.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India is the vendor of 2 reactor design lines (Indian PHWR and PHWR-700), covering 38 units on record, 19 of them operating.

Share of each stage it works in

StageCompanyWorld totalShareRankSource
Reprocessing260tHM/yr3,860(2022)6.7%4 of 4World Nuclear Association, Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel

How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.

What it supplies

ProductForOperating units of that kind
PHWR fuel bundles, natural uranium phwr -

Recorded as capability against a reactor type or model line rather than against named units, because utilities do not publish fuel contracts.

Design lines

DesignGenerationCapacityOperatingUnits
Indian PHWR II 220–540 MWe gross 17 22
PHWR-700 II+ 700 MWe gross 2 16

Installed base

UnitCountryStatusModelGross MWOnline
Kakrapar nuclear power plant 3 India Operating PHWR-700 700 2023
Kakrapar nuclear power plant 4 India Operating PHWR-700 700 2024
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 7 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 700 2025
Tarapur nuclear power plant 3 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 540 2006
Tarapur nuclear power plant 4 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 540 2005
Kaiga nuclear power plant 1 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2000
Kaiga nuclear power plant 2 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2000
Kaiga nuclear power plant 3 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2007
Kaiga nuclear power plant 4 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2011
Kakrapar nuclear power plant 1 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 1993
Kakrapar nuclear power plant 2 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 1995
Madras nuclear power plant 2 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 1986
Narora nuclear power plant 1 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 1991
Narora nuclear power plant 2 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 1992
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 3 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2000
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 4 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2000
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 5 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2010
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 6 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 2010
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 2 India Operating Horizontal Pressure Tube type 200 1981
Kaiga nuclear power plant 5 India Under construction Horizontal Pressure Tube type 700 2031
Kaiga nuclear power plant 6 India Under construction Horizontal Pressure Tube type 700 2031
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 8 India Under construction Horizontal Pressure Tube type 700 2026
Bhimpur nuclear power plant 1 India Cancelled (inferred) PHWR-700 700 -
Bhimpur nuclear power plant 2 India Cancelled (inferred) PHWR-700 700 -
Bhimpur nuclear power plant 3 India Cancelled (inferred) PHWR-700 700 -
Bhimpur nuclear power plant 4 India Cancelled (inferred) PHWR-700 700 -
Chutka nuclear power plant 1 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2031
Chutka nuclear power plant 2 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2031
Gorakhpur Haryana nuclear power plant 1-1 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2031
Gorakhpur Haryana nuclear power plant 1-2 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2031
Gorakhpur Haryana nuclear power plant 2-3 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2031
Gorakhpur Haryana nuclear power plant 2-4 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2031
Mahi Banswara nuclear power plant 1-1 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2029
Mahi Banswara nuclear power plant 1-2 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2029
Mahi Banswara nuclear power plant 2-3 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2029
Mahi Banswara nuclear power plant 2-4 India Pre-construction PHWR-700 700 2029
Madras nuclear power plant 1 India Mothballed Horizontal Pressure Tube type 220 1984
Rajasthan nuclear power plant 1 India Mothballed Horizontal Pressure Tube type 100 1973

Sources

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