{"id":156999,"date":"2023-09-04T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=156999"},"modified":"2023-09-04T12:43:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:13:10","slug":"pm-announces-full-capacity-operation-of-indias-largest-domestically-built-700-mw-nuclear-power-plant-at-kakrapar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pm-announces-full-capacity-operation-of-indias-largest-domestically-built-700-mw-nuclear-power-plant-at-kakrapar\/","title":{"rendered":"PM announces full capacity operation of India’s largest domestically built 700 MW nuclear power plant at Kakrapar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PM announces full capacity operation of India’s largest domestically built 700 MW nuclear power plant at Kakrapar:<\/strong> On August 31, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the commencement of full-capacity operations at India’s largest domestically built 700 MW nuclear power plant located at Kakrapar in Gujarat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz: September 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHORT QUESTION<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
What is the capacity of Narora power plant?<\/em><\/strong>

Ans: Narora Nuclear Power Plant is situated in Bulandshahar district in the Western parts of Uttar Pradesh, and it is operated by NPCIL and has a capacity of 440MW.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An Overview of the News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nuclear facility at Kakrapar is the largest nuclear facility of its kind to be built entirely within India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initially, the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP) started commercial operations on 30 June but was operating at 90% capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reached its maximum operational capacity on 31 August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear power development in Kakrapar and all over India:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is responsible for the construction of two 700 MW Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) at Kakrapar in Gujarat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Kakrapar also has two power plants of 220 MW each.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • NPCIL currently operates 23 commercial nuclear power reactors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Future plans and projects:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • KAPP Unit 4 had achieved 97.56% progress as of July while commissioning activities were in progress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • NPCIL has plans to build 16 more PHWRs of 700 MW each across the country and has secured financial and administrative approvals for these projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Other 700 MW nuclear power plant projects are in progress at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan (RAPS 7 & 8), and Gorakhpur, Haryana (GHAVP 1 & 2).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • The government has approved the construction of 10 indigenously developed PHWRs in fleet mode at four locations: Gorakhpur (Haryana), Chutka (Madhya Pradesh), Mahi Banswara (Rajasthan), and Kaiga (Karnataka).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      PM announces full capacity operation of India’s largest domestically built 700 MW nuclear power plant at Kakrapar: On August 31, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the commencement of full-capacity operations at India’s largest domestically built 700 MW nuclear power plant located at Kakrapar in Gujarat. Daily Current Affairs Quiz: September 2023 SHORT QUESTION What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":157002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5153],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-156999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2023","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157004,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156999\/revisions\/157004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}