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Quick Revision – Nuclear Power Plants in India – Geography

By March 27, 2023May 22nd, 2023Announcement, Current Affairs, Geography, GS1

Quick Revision - Nuclear Power Plants in India

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Type – 1 – Gorakhpur – In News

 

Type 2 – Most Important Statistics

Most Important Statistics

Type – 3 – NCERT

  • Tarapur  – 1969 – Maharashtra
  • First nuclear reactor of India
  • Oldest nuclear facility

NCERT

  • Kaiga – Karnataka
  • Built on the banks of River Kali 
  • Kakrapara – Gujrat 
  • lies in the proximity of Mandvi   , Surat and Tapi river in the state of Gujarat. 

  • Rawatbhata- Rajasthan Atomic Power Station
  • Chambal River 
  • Rana Pratap Sagar Dam
  • Narora
  • Kalpakkam – Madras Atomic Power Station
  • India’s first fully indigenously constructed nuclear power station
  • World’s first thorium-based nuclear plant, “Bhavni,” using Uranium-233 – is being set up
  • Experimental thorium plant Kamini” already exists. 

 

  • Kudankulam – Highest Capacity nuclear power generation complex of India
  • Russia

Seismic Zones

Type – 4 – New Sites

Type – 4- Operational

  • Tarapur – 1969
  • Rawatbhata– 1973
  • Kalpakkam – 1984
  • Narora–1991
  • Kakrapara– 1993
  • Kaiga  – 2000
  • Kundakulam – 2013

 

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