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Licensing of Plant and Personnels

Operating plants undergo continuous which is a much more comprehensive safety review
safety review through periodic reports and and includes additional factors like advancement
regulatory inspections supplemented by exhaustive in technology, feedback of operating experience
five yearly reviews which takes place prior to renewal from within India as well as from other countries,
of licence. It involves detailed safety review of safe comparison of safety standards, cumulative effects
operation of NPP as per its design intent, safety of plant ageing, probabilistic safety assessments etc.
systems performances, improvements in safety etc.
Based on these reviews, licence for operation of
In addition to this, a periodic safety review NPPs were either renewed or extended.
(PSR) is carried out once in ten years,

Unit Renewal of Licence /Authorization under following Acts & Rules Validity

RAPS-1&2  Atomic Energy Act, 1962 (and rules framed thereunder) August 31, 2024
 Factories Act, 1948
KAPS-1&2 July 31, 2024
 Authorization for Radioactive Waste Disposal/Transfer under GSR-125
KKNPP-1&2  Factories Act, 1948 July 31, 2020

181 Operating personnel of NPPs
in various positions (Shift Charge
Engineer (SCE), Assistant Shift Charge
Licensing /Re-Licensing of
Engineer (ASCE) and Control Engineer
Operating Personnel
(CE)) were licensed in different NPPs,
research reactor and associated
facilities

Re-Start of KAPS-1

KAPS-1&2 units had experienced the events of satisfactory review of submission, AERB granted the
failure/leak from the coolant channel in March 2016 permission for fuel reloading and re-start of KAPS-
and July 2015 respectively. Subsequent to these 1 which was synchronized to grid on May 24, 2019
events, En-Masse Coolant Channel Replacement after completion of EMCCR activities. KAPS-2 is
(EMCCR) was taken up in KAPS-1&2. Based on already in operation since September 2018.

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