Kaiga units operated continuously for over 500 days on eight occasions

KAIGA SITE (NPCIL)

The four units of Kaiga Generating Stations (KGS) have operated continuously for over 500 days on eight occasions and over 365 days on 19 occasions, thus setting benchmark parameters for the operating stations of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).

Speaking at the media outreach programme at Kaiga Site of NPCIL in Uttaraka Kannada district on Tuesday, the authorities briefed about the excellent track record of KGS 1 to 4 units.

Project Officer for KGS Units 3 and 4, K. Chittaranjan, said that KGS Unit 1 had created a record of operating continuously for 962 days, which was the longest continuous days of operation worldwide. However, the Darlington-1 unit in Canada has now broken the record with 1,106 days of operation. Among the operating stations of NPCIL in India, the Kaiga units had been doing exceptionally well, he said.

He said KGS Units 5 & 6 were first among the atomic power generation units taken up by NPCIL under the fleet mode, the others being in Haryana, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.