Tarapur 1

Operable

Details

Reactor Type	Boiling Water Reactor (or BWR)
Model	BWR-1 (Mark 2)
Owner	Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd
Operator	Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd

Timeline

Construction Start	Thursday, 1 October 1964
First Criticality	Saturday, 1 February 1969
First Grid Connection	Tuesday, 1 April 1969
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 28 October 1969
Long-term Shutdown	Saturday, 18 January 2020

Specifications

Capacity Net	150 MWe
Capacity Gross	160 MWe
Thermal Capacity	530 MWt
Design Net Capacity	200 MWe

Operational History

Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Energy Availability Factor (%)

Total Electricity Supplied (GWh)

Reactor History

Year	Reference Unit Power (MWe)	Annual Time Online (Hours)	Electricity Supplied (GWh)	Operation Factor (%)	Energy Availability Annual (%)	Energy Availability Cumulative (%)	Load Factor Annual (%)	Load Factor Cumulative (%)
1969	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1970	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1971	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1972	210	5071	652.40	57.70	35.40	-	35.40	-
1973	210	5181	757.10	59.10	41.20	-	41.20	-
1974	156	6938	832.60	79.20	60.50	44.30	60.90	44.40
1975	200	5825	926.60	66.50	53.00	46.50	52.90	46.60
1976	210	7617	1156.60	86.70	62.70	50.00	62.70	50.00
1977	210	6675	994.80	76.20	54.10	50.70	54.10	50.70
1978	210	6427	941.00	73.40	51.20	50.80	51.20	50.80
1979	210	7143	965.90	81.50	52.50	51.00	52.50	51.00
1980	210	5955	893.90	67.80	67.80	52.90	48.50	50.70
1981	210	5986	793.80	68.30	68.40	54.50	43.20	49.90
1982	210	7872	1112.20	89.90	89.90	57.80	60.50	50.90
1983	200	5396	730.00	61.60	41.70	56.50	41.70	50.20
1984	200	7688	826.85	87.50	89.60	59.00	47.10	49.90
1985	160	6194	790.90	70.70	64.60	59.40	53.20	50.10
1986	150	7954	1090.23	90.80	83.00	60.50	83.00	51.80
1987	150	1533	193.38	17.50	14.70	58.30	14.70	50.00
1988	150	8010	1085.46	91.20	82.40	59.40	82.40	51.50
1989	150	6177	800.33	70.50	61.40	59.50	60.90	51.90
1990	150	7772	1045.17	88.70	80.20	60.40	79.50	53.10
1991	150	6536	566.89	74.60	80.40	61.20	43.10	52.70
1992	150	5487	762.34	62.50	57.90	61.10	57.90	52.90
1993	150	7291	967.68	83.20	74.40	61.60	73.60	53.60
1994	150	2450	280.62	28.00	21.40	60.10	21.40	52.50
1995	150	7893	1092.26	90.10	83.10	60.90	83.10	53.60
1996	150	3872	403.32	44.10	30.60	59.90	30.60	52.80
1997	150	7347	985.48	83.90	75.00	60.40	75.00	53.50
1998	150	8283	1162.62	94.60	91.60	61.40	88.50	54.60
1999	150	6405	852.60	73.10	67.00	61.60	64.90	54.90
2000	150	8337	1181.10	94.90	91.60	62.40	89.60	55.90
2001	150	7635	1084.22	87.20	83.60	63.00	82.50	56.70
2002	150	8394	1180.71	95.80	92.00	63.80	89.90	57.60
2003	150	7901	1100.38	90.20	85.20	64.40	83.70	58.30
2004	150	8111	1148.56	92.30	89.00	65.10	87.20	59.10
2005	150	6552	965.03	74.80	74.20	65.30	73.40	59.50
2006	150	6652	938.72	75.90	71.40	65.50	71.40	59.80
2007	150	8400	1218.35	95.90	92.70	66.10	92.70	60.60
2008	150	7045	964.83	80.20	78.20	66.40	73.20	60.90
2009	150	7752	1205.65	88.50	88.20	66.90	91.80	61.60
2010	150	6792	976.75	77.50	74.00	67.10	74.30	61.90
2011	150	8437	1250.95	96.30	96.00	67.80	95.20	62.60
2012	150	4750	687.67	54.10	52.20	67.40	52.20	62.40
2013	150	7606	1120.51	86.80	84.60	67.80	85.30	62.90
2014	150	6612	960.40	75.50	73.10	67.90	73.10	63.10
2015	150	2866	427.55	32.70	32.00	67.20	32.50	62.50
2016	150	8317	1224.11	94.70	92.20	67.60	92.90	63.10
2017	150	3703	453.53	42.30	34.50	67.00	34.50	62.50
2018	150	6449	947.79	73.60	71.60	67.10	72.10	62.70
2019	150	8405	1163.97	96.00	88.50	67.50	88.60	63.20
2020	150	179	16.62	2.00	1.30	66.30	1.30	62.10
2021	150	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	65.00	0.00	60.90
2022	150	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	63.90	0.00	59.80