Atomic Power Stations In India

Nuclear power is the 5th largest source of electricity in India after thermal, hydro electric and renewable source of electricity. India ranked 7th in number of operated reactors(22) and 14th in total in installed capacity.

1) Tarapur Atomic Power Station
It is the first atomic power station in India.
Located at Tarapur in Palgar district, Maharashtra.
Commissioned at 1969.
Built with the help of USA.
Reactor type - two Boiling Water Reactor(BRW) and two Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor(PHWR).

2) Narora Atomic Power Station
Located at Narora in Bulandshahar district, Uttar Pradesh.
Commissioned at 1991
Reactor type - Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor(PHWR).

3) Madras Atomic Power Station
Located at Kalpakkam in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu.
India's first fully indegenously constructed nuclear power station.
Commissioned at 1984
Reactor type - Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor(PHWR).

4) Koodankulam Nuclear Power Station
Located at Koodankulam in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu.
Commissioned at 2013
It is the single largest nuclear power station in India.
Built with the help of Russia.
Reactor type - VVER or WWER(Water-Water Energetic Reactor.

5) Kakrapar Atomic Power Station
Located at Vyara in Gujarat
Commissioned in 1993
Reactor type - PHWR

6) Rawatbhata Atomic Power Station
Located at Rawatbhata in Rajasthan
Commissioned in 1973
Built with the help of Canada
Reactor type - PHWR

7) Kaiga Atomic Power Station
Located at Kaiga in Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka
Commissioned in 2000
Built near River Kali
Reactor type - PHWR

8) Gorakhpur Atomic Power Station
It is a proposed nuclear power plant
Also known as Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana(GHAVP)
Located at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad district, Haryana
Constructing indigenously
Commission planned in 2020-21
Reactor type - PHWR