Narora Atomic Power Station (NAPS) is a

nuclear power plant A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power st ...

located in Narora, Dibai Tehsil,

Bulandshahar Bulandshahr, formerly Baran, is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bulandshahr district and part of Delhi NCR region. According to the Government ...

District in

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Reactors

The plant houses two reactors, each a

pressurized heavy-water reactor A pressurized heavy-water reactor (PHWR) is a nuclear reactor that uses heavy water (deuterium oxide D2O) as its coolant and neutron moderator. PHWRs frequently use natural uranium as fuel, but sometimes also use very low enriched uranium. The h ...

(PHWR) capable of producing 220 MW of electricity. Commercial operation of NAPS-1 began on 1 January 1991, NAPS-2 on 1 July 1992. The reactors were not originally under

IAEA safeguards International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safeguards are a system of inspection and verification of the peaceful uses of nuclear materials as part of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT supervised by the International Atomic Energy Agency. ...

. but subsequent to the signing of the 1-2-3 agreement, they have been placed under IAEA monitoring with effect from 2014.

Units

Incidents

On 31 May 1993, after months of operation,two steam

turbine blade ...

s in NAPS-1 malfunctioned causing a major fire. This fire propagated to the ractor's emergency cabling system and with that nearly led to the damage of the reactor core.

References

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