Madras nuclear power plant

Madras nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Madras nuclear power plant is the 7th largest of 7 operating nuclear sites in India, holding 3% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 170th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating unit started up in 1986; the unit is 40.0 years old, older than the median of 23.5 in India.

The one unit with both construction and grid dates on record took 13.0 years from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 1980s is 7.3 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Kalpakkam nuclear power plant (0 km).

The current net rating of Unit 2 differs from its design net capacity by +1.5% (202 MW at design, 205 MW now).

Build time by unit

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How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.