Tarapur 2

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	Friday, 28 February 1969
First Grid Connection	Monday, 5 May 1969
Commercial Operation	Tuesday, 28 October 1969
Long-term Shutdown	Monday, 13 July 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	1987	218.00	22.60	11.80	-	11.80	-
1973	210	7402	1249.60	84.50	67.90	-	67.90	-
1974	194	4016	597.00	45.80	35.00	38.30	35.10	38.40
1975	200	5654	925.80	64.50	52.80	41.90	52.80	41.90
1976	210	6534	1137.90	74.40	61.70	45.90	61.70	46.00
1977	210	7650	1161.50	87.30	68.20	49.70	63.10	48.90
1978	210	6678	1146.10	76.20	62.30	51.60	62.30	50.80
1979	210	6216	993.00	71.00	53.90	51.80	54.00	51.20
1980	210	6883	899.90	78.40	78.40	54.80	48.80	51.00
1981	210	6748	964.00	77.00	77.10	57.10	52.40	51.10
1982	210	4844	556.70	55.30	55.40	56.90	30.30	49.20
1983	200	7519	867.70	85.80	49.50	56.30	49.50	49.20
1984	200	5615	803.11	63.90	69.60	57.30	45.70	49.00
1985	160	8059	1070.89	92.00	83.40	58.90	72.00	50.30
1986	150	5615	769.51	64.10	58.60	58.90	58.60	50.70
1987	150	8221	1167.19	93.80	88.80	60.30	88.80	52.60
1988	150	6077	813.50	69.20	61.70	60.40	61.70	53.00
1989	150	3052	427.06	34.80	34.80	59.20	32.50	52.10
1990	150	7827	762.38	89.40	58.70	59.20	58.00	52.30
1991	150	6265	848.46	71.50	75.00	59.90	64.60	52.80
1992	150	6076	819.84	69.20	62.20	60.00	62.20	53.20
1993	150	5750	779.72	65.60	59.30	59.90	59.30	53.40
1994	150	6722	843.61	76.70	64.20	60.10	64.20	53.80
1995	150	4911	640.00	56.10	48.70	59.70	48.70	53.60
1996	150	3203	361.17	36.50	27.40	58.60	27.40	52.70
1997	150	6978	775.71	79.70	59.00	58.60	59.00	52.90
1998	150	6522	881.06	74.40	67.80	58.90	67.00	53.40
1999	150	7711	1103.52	88.00	86.40	59.70	84.00	54.30
2000	150	7162	1023.11	81.50	79.00	60.30	77.60	55.00
2001	150	8364	1197.42	95.50	93.30	61.20	91.10	56.00
2002	150	7978	1163.29	91.10	90.20	62.00	88.50	56.90
2003	150	7890	1117.12	90.10	85.90	62.70	85.00	57.70
2004	150	8455	1238.26	96.20	94.50	63.50	94.00	58.60
2005	150	6359	893.32	72.60	68.90	63.70	68.00	58.90
2006	150	7439	1090.87	84.90	82.60	64.20	83.00	59.50
2007	150	7812	1142.36	89.20	86.50	64.70	86.90	60.20
2008	150	8462	1264.98	96.30	95.80	65.40	96.00	61.00
2009	150	7878	1201.41	89.90	88.10	66.00	91.40	61.70
2010	150	8760	1309.33	100.00	98.90	66.70	99.60	62.60
2011	150	7857	1149.62	89.70	87.50	67.20	87.50	63.10
2012	150	8723	1255.46	99.30	95.30	67.80	95.30	63.80
2013	150	2982	424.38	34.00	32.30	67.00	32.30	63.20
2014	150	8648	1275.95	98.70	96.60	67.60	97.10	63.90
2015	150	5677	740.83	64.80	56.20	67.40	56.40	63.70
2016	150	3783	563.58	43.10	42.30	66.90	42.80	63.30
2017	150	8561	1294.41	97.70	97.00	67.50	98.50	64.00
2018	150	4388	550.87	50.10	41.70	67.00	41.90	63.60
2019	150	8606	1262.16	98.20	95.70	67.50	96.00	64.20
2020	150	3702	542.06	42.10	40.90	67.00	41.10	63.70
2021	150	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	65.80	0.00	62.60
2022	150	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	64.60	0.00	61.50