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Protocol on Nuclear Reactors Agreement

February 16 , 2024 283 days 348 0
  • India and Russia have signed a protocol on amendments to the 2008 inter-governmental agreement on cooperation in construction of additional nuclear reactors in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site and in construction of Russia-designed nuclear power plants at new sites in India.
  • The Russian nuclear energy agency has built 2 X 1,000 MWe VVER nuclear reactors and is constructing four more reactors with similar capacity.
  • India's largest nuclear power project Kudankulam is meant to have six 1,000-Megawatt Power plants, with a total installed capacity of 6,000 Megawatts.
  • Of this, the first plant was operationalised in 2013 and the second was operationalised in 2016.
  • The four remaining plants are in various stages of construction.
  • All of these reactors are of the VVER-1000 class.
  • It is a Water-Water Energetic reactor design developed in the erstwhile Soviet Union.

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