Rajasthan 1

Permanent Shutdown

Rajasthan 1 last operated in 2004 , and is considered to be in Permanent Shutdown status, although this has not been formally declared.

Details

Reactor Type	Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (or PHWR)
Model	Horizontal Pressure Tube type
Owner	Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd
Operator	Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd

Timeline

Construction Start	Sunday, 1 August 1965
First Criticality	Friday, 11 August 1972
First Grid Connection	Thursday, 30 November 1972
Commercial Operation	Sunday, 16 December 1973
Long-term Shutdown	Saturday, 9 October 2004

Specifications

Capacity Net	134 MWe
Capacity Gross	100 MWe
Thermal Capacity	346 MWt
Design Net Capacity	207 MWe

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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 (%)
1972	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1973	145	2855	218.40	-	-	-	-	-
1974	207	4690	667.60	53.50	36.80	36.80	36.80	36.80
1975	206	3817	599.70	43.60	33.20	35.00	33.20	35.00
1976	206	5728	801.90	65.20	44.30	38.10	44.30	38.10
1977	206	3312	456.90	37.80	26.40	35.20	25.30	34.90
1978	206	1537	153.20	17.60	8.50	29.90	8.50	29.60
1979	206	7217	1147.30	82.40	63.60	35.50	63.60	35.30
1980	206	6346	953.10	72.20	52.70	37.90	52.70	37.80
1981	220	3732	441.50	42.60	22.90	36.00	22.90	35.80
1982	206	496	38.20	5.70	2.10	32.20	2.10	32.10
1983	202	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	29.10	0.00	29.00
1984	180	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	26.80	0.00	26.60
1985	204	1914	226.25	21.80	12.70	25.60	12.70	25.50
1986	207	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	23.60	0.00	23.50
1987	207	2555	169.85	29.20	9.40	22.60	9.40	22.50
1988	207	5793	376.48	66.00	20.70	22.40	20.70	22.40
1989	207	4779	312.82	54.60	17.20	22.10	17.20	22.00
1990	192	5789	364.06	66.10	19.40	22.00	21.60	22.00
1991	192	2858	197.54	32.60	74.80	24.70	11.70	21.50
1992	84	1070	57.68	12.20	12.20	24.40	7.80	21.20
1993	84	2435	167.63	27.80	22.80	24.40	22.80	21.20
1994	84	195	2.91	2.20	2.20	23.90	0.40	20.80
1995	84	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	23.40	0.00	20.30
1996	84	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	23.00	0.00	19.90
1997	84	2792	264.64	31.90	31.90	23.10	36.00	20.20
1998	134	5448	567.36	62.20	62.20	24.40	48.30	21.10
1999	134	6443	795.02	73.60	73.60	25.80	67.70	22.50
2000	134	5008	681.33	57.00	57.00	26.80	57.90	23.60
2001	134	860	173.19	9.80	10.00	26.30	14.80	23.30
2002	90	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	25.80	0.00	22.90
2003	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	25.10	0.00	22.20
2004	134	3785	303.83	43.10	56.80	25.90	25.80	22.30
2005	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	25.50	0.00	22.00
2006	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	25.00	0.00	21.60
2007	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	24.60	0.00	21.20
2008	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	24.20	0.00	20.90
2009	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	23.80	0.00	20.50
2010	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	23.40	0.00	20.20
2011	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	23.00	0.00	19.90
2012	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	22.70	0.00	19.60
2013	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	22.40	0.00	19.30
2014	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	22.00	0.00	19.00
2015	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	21.70	0.00	18.70
2016	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	21.40	0.00	18.40
2017	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	21.10	0.00	18.20
2018	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.80	0.00	17.90
2019	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.50	0.00	17.60
2020	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	20.20	0.00	17.40
2021	134	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	19.90	0.00	17.20