Madras Atomic Power Station

Madras Atomic Power station
Country	India
Coordinates	12°33′27″N 80°10′30″E / 12.55750°N 80.17500°E / 12.55750; 80.17500
Status	Operational
Construction began	Units 1 & 2: 1970 (1970) PFBR: January 2004 (2004-01)
Commission date	Units 1: 27 January 1984 (1984-01-27) Units 2: 21 March 1986 (1986-03-21)
Owner(s)	Units 1 & 2: NPCIL PFBR, FBR-1&2: BHAVINI
Operator(s)	Units 1 & 2: NPCIL PFBR, FBR-1&2: BHAVINI
Nuclear power station
Reactors	2
Reactor type	Units 1 & 2: IPHWR-220 PFBR: Prototype FBR-1&2: FBR-600
Reactor supplier	Units 1 & 2: BARC/NPCIL PFBR, FBR-1&2: IGCAR/BHAVINI
Cooling source	Bay of Bengal
Power generation
Units operational	2 × 220 MW
Units planned	2 × 600 MW
Units under const.	1 × 500 MW
Nameplate capacity	410 MW
Capacity factor	44.21% (2020-21)[1]
Annual net output	1703.92 GW.h (2020-21)[1]
External links
Website	Nuclear power Corporation of India Ltd
Commons	Related media on Commons
[edit on Wikidata]

Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) located at Kalpakkam about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Chennai, India, is a comprehensive nuclear power production, fuel reprocessing, and waste treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for fast breeder reactors (FBRs). It is also India's first fully indigenously constructed nuclear power station, with two units each generating 220 MW of electricity. The first and second units of the station went critical in 1983 and 1985, respectively. The station has reactors housed in a reactor building with double shell containment improving protection also in the case of a loss-of-coolant accident. An Interim Storage Facility (ISF) is also located in Kalpakkam.

The facility is also home to India's first large scale fast breeder reactor of 500 MWe called the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor operated by BHAVINI and will also be the site of first two FBR-600 commercial fast breeder reactors.^[2]