MAPS temporarily shuts down one unit for maintenance
PTI | 09:01 PM,Jan 03,2012Chennai, Jan 3 (PTI): One of two units of Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam, some 70 km from here has been temporarily shut down for a week for maintenance, a top MAPS official said here today. "We have temporarily shut down the unit for a week. We plan to carry out surveillance testing and maintenance work in the second unit. Once we are done with the tests, we will resume operation in a week," K Ramamurthy, Station Director of Madras Atomic Power Station told PTI from Kalpakkam. The operations are likely to resume on January 9. The first and second units of MAPS run by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited went critical in 1983 and 1985. The nuclear complex in Kalpakkam along Bay of Bengal houses Madras Atomic Power Station, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research and Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited. On Dec 30, Ramamurthy had stated that operations at MAPS had continued unhindered when cyclone Thane hit the Tamil Nadu coast and that the two units operated safely at 150 MWe each.
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