Second unit of Kudankulam nuke plant reaches 100pc power level
The second unit of India's Kudankulam nuke plant—built with Russian assistance—reached 100 percent power level for the first time recently. Earlier it was operating at 90 percent power level.
The company plans to perform comprehensive dynamic tests for 15 days after the power unit reached the nominal power level, Rosatom said in a statement yesterday.
The test will confirm the design parameters of the power unit's main system and its dynamic stability in certain modes of disturbance of normal operation, according to the statement.
On August 29 last year, the power plant that was constructed with the technical assistance of Russia's ASE Group of Companies was connected to the power grid of India.
Physical start-up of the unit commenced on May 11, 2016 when the first fuel assembly was loaded into the reactor. Loading of 163 fuel assemblies was successfully completed on May 19 the same year.
All the works were conducted jointly by Indian and Russian specialists in automatic mode in strict compliance with the schedule and safety regulations, Rosatom said.
ASE Group of Companies is one of the world leaders in nuclear power engineering and holds over 30 percent of the global NPP construction market.
The group has representative offices, branch offices and operational offices in 15 countries around the world, with almost 80 percent of its portfolio coming from projects abroad. Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh is being constructed by ASE.
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