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| 5 nuclear plants shut down for want of fuel |
| 2007-10-21 |
| Mumbai (PTI): Five of the 17 nuclear power plants in the country had been shut down and the remaining are operating at an average of less than 50 per cent capacity for want of fuel, a top official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited said. Two units at Narora atomic power plant in Uttar Pradesh are shut down for annual maintenance work while the newly commissioned Kaiga unit 3 in Karnataka and one unit of Kalpakkam atomic power plant near Chennai are facing closure for want of fuel, Chairman and Managing Director of NPCIL S K Jain said. Two units of Rajasthan Atomic Power plants are shut down as feeder pipe replacement is taking place, Jain said, adding all these may get started immediately as there was a mismatch of uranium fuel in the country. Rest of the 12 plants which had an established 95 per cent capacity are now running between 50-70 per cent making the average capacity of nuclear power production in the country less than 50 per cent, he said. The Nuclear Fuel Complex Chief Executive R N Jairaj said his company was able to make use of only 30 per cent of the total capacity and is being under-utilised due to the "mismatch" of fuel. The fuel "mismatch" situation has started affecting the performance of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL). Currently operating nuclear power stations with a capacity of around 4,000 MWe, NPCIL has been forced to slash power production levels. |
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