Kundankulam nuclear power plants second unit reaches full capacity

New delhi . The second unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) has reached 100 percent capacity (1000 megawatts) for the first time, a senior Rosatom official told RIR on Jan. 22. 
 
“After completing the physical experiments stage at 90 per cent power level and after obtaining the permission of the Indian regulatory authority, the reactor plant was brought to 100 per cent nominal level of neutron power,” said Andrey Lebedev, vice-president (South Asia), ASE Group of Companies, which is the construction and engineering division of Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom. 
 
“We have reached the last stage of dynamic tests at nominal power,” Lebedev added. “As per the schedule, this stage will completed during the first two weeks of February.” Psu Connect Source by rbth

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