PACIFIC COLLEGE OF ENGG.

TheNuclear Power Corporation of India Limited(NPCIL)

is
agovernment-owned
corporationof
Indiabased
inMumbai.
It is wholly owned by theCentral Governmentand is
responsible for the generation ofnuclear powerfor electricity.
NPCIL is administered by the Department of Atomic Energy,
Govt. of India(DAE)

IT WAS CREATED ON September 1967 Under The

Govt. ACT 1962
All Plants Of Company Are Certified For ISO-14001
At 10 August 2012 the company had 21nuclear
reactorsin operation, a total installed capacity of
5780 MWe.

 Reserves of fossil fuels like coal, oil, etc. are

depleting very fast.
Cheapest non-hydro electric power source in India.
Fuel requirement is small as compared to thermal
power plant.
1kg of U-235 gives energy equivalent to 3000 tones
of high grade coal (7.21013joulesper kilogram of
uranium-235 versus 2.4107joules per kilogram of
coal)

NUCLEAR REACTOR
HEAT EXCHANGER
STEAM TURBINE
ALTERNATOR

A apparatus in which nuclear reactions are initiated,

controlled and sustained at a steady rate.
It consists of
Calandria (HEART of the reactor)
Nuclear fuel (U-235) bundles
Moderator and Coolant
Control Rods

NUCLEAR
FUEL
BUNDLE

 CALENDRIA :A Cylindrical vessel through which

vertical tubes pass, forming part of nuclear reactor.
Where 306 fuel bundle are Placed For Reaction
Purpose.
FUEL BUNDLES: It Consist of a group of 19 tubes
containing fuels.
URANIUM PELLETS: it is the fuel used to burn by
nuclear fission to draw nuclear energy, it is in the
form of pellets(size similar to tablets).
12 Pellets fill a vertical tube.

 MODERATOR: It is used to slow the neutrons by

means of absorbing kinetic energy of neutrons
COOLANT: It also used to cool the Zircaloy metal,
as its gets heat up due to fission reaction.
PHT: (Primary heat transfer) it is used to transfer
heat energy from fission reaction to demineralised
water

 Thekinetic energyof fission products is

converted tothermal energywhen these nuclei
collide with nearby atoms.
The reactor absorbs some of thegamma
raysproduced during fission and converts their
energy into heat.
Heat is produced by theradioactive decay of
fission products and materials that have been
activated byneutron absorption.
This decay heat-source will remain for some time
even after the reactor is shut down.

 Nuclear fission
PHW
(Pressurised heavy water)
PHW
Demineralised water
(Pressurised heavy water) (DM Water)

Demineralised water
(DM Water)

River water

TURBINE-GENERATOR RAPS-1&2

TURBINE-GENERATOR RAPS-3&4

ROTOR EXPANSION

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