{"id":11970,"date":"2017-04-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo.afonico-test.ru\/novosti-otrasli\/kudankulam-2-enters-commercial-operation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:14:18","slug":"kudankulam-2-enters-commercial-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/novosti-otrasli\/kudankulam-2-enters-commercial-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudankulam 2 enters commercial operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has today signed an agreement provisionally accepting Kudankulam unit 2\u00a0from its Russian suppliers and thus marking the unit\u2019s entry into commercial operation.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The VVER-1000\u00a0unit reached first criticality in May 2016\u00a0and was connected to India\u2019s power grid in August. It reached 100% of its operating capacity in January.<\/p>\n<p>NPCIL\u2019s signature of the provisional acceptance certificate marks the start of a year-long period of operation under guarantee from Russian suppliers ASE Group, after which a final acceptance certificate will be signed. This is due to take place on 3\u00a0April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Kudankulam, in Tamil Nadu, is home to two VVER-1000s supplied by the ASE Group, the engineering subsidiary of Russian nuclear power corporation Rosatom. The group includes Rosatom\u2019s international reactor supplier subsidiary Atomstroyexport and reactor designer Atomenergoproekt.<\/p>\n<p>Kudankulam 1\u00a0entered commercial operation in December 2014. Two further VVER-1000\u00a0units\u00a0\u2014 Kudankulam 3\u00a0and 4\u00a0\u2014 are to be built at the site in a second construction phase, with more units to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has today signed an agreement provisionally accepting Kudankulam unit 2\u00a0from its Russian suppliers and thus marking the unit\u2019s entry into commercial operation. The VVER-1000\u00a0unit reached first criticality in May 2016\u00a0and was connected to India\u2019s power grid in August. It reached 100% of its operating capacity in January. NPCIL\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ru","en"],"languages":{"ru":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16277,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions\/16277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vosafety.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}