WORLD NUCLEAR NEWS (LONDON)—India added the fourth unit at the Kaiga nuclear power plant (in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka) to its power grid on 19 January 2011. Kaiga 4 is a 220 MWe domestically designed pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR), similar to the three units already in operation at the site. The reactor achieved first criticality on 27 November 2010 and is now India's 20th operating unit. The 880 MWe that Kaiga 4 generates will supply the southern Indian states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Pudducherry. Source: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Kaiga_4_connected_to_grid-1901114.html (Reliability: 35.84 -- Moderate)
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