Safety Evaluation Of Indian Nuclear Power Plants Post Fukushima Incident
Tsunami Incident at Eastern Coastline
of India
On Dec 26, 2004 - Tsunami struck the eastern.
coastline of India, where MAPS units are located.
Prior to event MAPS-2 was operating at full power
and MAPS-1 was under shutdown.
Water level risen due to Tsunami causing
submergence of low lying areas.
Reactor brought to safe shutdown state and core
cooling continued as per design.
Power supply from grid was available but emergency
power supplies from Diesel Generators (DG) started
and kept running as precautionary measure.
There was no radiological impact of the incident
either on the plant-workers or in the public domain.
Emergency Diesel Generator (EDG), located at 12.5
m elevation, which is 2m above the Tsunami height
observed (See photograph in next slide).
View of MAPS from
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