KAIGA ATOMIC POWER STATION

About:

• The Kaiga Atomic Power Station is a nuclear power generating station situated at Kaiga, near the river Kali, in Uttar Kannada district of Karnataka, India.
  
  
• The plant has been in operation since 2000 and is operated by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India.
  
  
• The power station currently operates four PHWRs, all of which are small-sized CANDU plants of 220 MW.
  
  
• Kaiga Generating Station Unit-1 (KGS-1): KGS-1 in Kaiga, located 56 km from Karwar, has been generating electricity continuously since May 13, 2016. KGS-1, an indigenously built pressurised heavy water reactor run by domestic fuel (uranium), began its commercial operation on November 16, 2000.
  
  

Record:

• Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCL) announced that Unit-1 of Kaiga Generating Station (KGS-1) completed 895 days of continuous operation.
  
  
• Kaiga now stands first in the world for continuous operation with regard to PHWRs and second among all nuclear power reactors. The Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR), Heysham II-8 of the United Kingdom, holds the overall record of 940 days of continuous operation.
  
  
• The earlier record for PHWRs was held by Unit-7 of Pickering Nuclear Generating Station at Ontario, Canada, which operated continuously for 894 days That record was set in 1994.