The Tarapur Atomic Power Station is located in Tarapur, Palghar, Maharashtra.
Location: 19°49′44.33″N 72°39′40.34″E.
Date of Opening: 28 October 1969; 53 years ago.
Operator: Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL)
About: Two boiling water reactor (BWR) units were initially built at Tarapur Atomic Power Station as part of the 1963 123 Agreement between India, the United States, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). GE and Bechtel constructed it for the Department of Atomic Energy. On October 28, 1969, Units 1 and 2 were made available for commercial use. Their original electrical output was 210 MW. Later on, due to technical issues, this was decreased to 160 MW. In Asia, these were the first of their kind. More recently, BHEL, L&T, and Gammon India built two more 540 MW pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) plants. Following India’s first nuclear weapons test, Smiling Buddha, in 1974, the West
