Jaitapur nuclear power plant is a 9,900 MW nuclear power station in Maharashtra, India. It is operated by Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 22 million homes (estimated). It ranks #1 of 2,225 India power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, nuclear supplies about 2.6% of India's electricity; the national grid averages 670 gCO₂/kWh (26.7% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEM_nuc_jaitapur_india.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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capacity: Wikidata P2109; fuel: GEM GNPT
At 9,900 MW, Jaitapur nuclear power plant is well above the median nuclear plant in India (1,840 MW). Technically it is described as pressurized water reactor. Its current lifecycle status is “Pre Construction” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Nuclear plants split uranium to raise steam with no direct CO₂; they run as steady baseload with very high capacity factors and the longest operating lifetimes of any thermal plant.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd [100%].
This nuclear plant uses heat from nuclear fission to raise steam for a turbine-generator. It sits in a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 16.6°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #1 largest nuclear power plant of 17 in India by capacity.
India has 17 nuclear power plants in this dataset, together about 44,460 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 16.5997, 73.33001 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Jaitapur nuclear power plant is a 9,900 MW nuclear power plant in Maharashtra, India.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 22,300,457 homes (estimated).
Jaitapur nuclear power plant is operated by Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Ltd [100%].
