Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant
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 Location of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in India
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| Country | India |
| Coordinates | 8°10′08″N 77°42′45″E / 8.16889°N 77.71250°ECoordinates: 8°10′08″N 77°42′45″E / 8.16889°N 77.71250°E |
| Construction began | 31 March 2002 |
| Commission date | 22 October 2013 |
| Construction cost |
₹17,270 crore (US$2.68 billion), units 1 & 2 ₹39,747 crore (US$6.17 billion), units 3 & 4 |
| Owner(s) | Nuclear Power Corporation of India |
| Nuclear power station | |
| Reactor type | VVER |
| Cooling source | Laccadive Sea |
| Cooling towers | no |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 2 × 1,000 MW |
| Units planned | 2 × 1,000 MW |
| Nameplate capacity | 2,000 MW |
| Planned output | 7,500 GW·h |
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Website Nuclear Power Corporation of India |
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Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (or Koodankulam NPP or KKNPP) is the single largest nuclear power station in India, situated in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction on the plant began on 31 March 2002, but faced several delays due to opposition from local fishermen. KKNPP is scheduled to have six VVER-1000 reactors built in collaboration with Atomstroyexport, the Russian state company and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), with an installed capacity of 6,000 MW of electricity.
Unit 1 was synchronised with the southern power grid on 22 October 2013 and is generating electricity to its warranted limit of 1000 MW. The original cost of the two units was ₹ 13,171 crore, but it was later revised to ₹ 17,270 crore ($2.6 billion). Russia advanced a credit of ₹ 6,416 crore ($0.97 billion) to both the units. The second unit attained criticality on 10 July and was synchronised with the electricity grid on 29 August.
In 2015, Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd (NPCIL) announced a price of ₹ 4.29/kW·h (6.4 ¢/kW·h) for energy delivered from Kudankulam nuclear power plant.
The ground-breaking ceremony for construction of units 3 & 4 was performed on 17 February 2016. Due to operators and suppliers requirement to insure the two following units, at ₹39,747 crore (US$6.17 billion), the cost of units 3 & 4 is twice the cost of units 1 & 2.
An Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) on the project was signed on 20 November 1988 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and then Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev, for the construction of two reactors. The project remained in limbo for a decade due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. There were also objections from the United States, on the grounds that the agreement did not meet the 1992 terms of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).M R Srinivasan, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman from 1987 to 1990, called the project "a non-starter". However, the project was revived on 21 June 1998.
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