Secretary, DAE & Chairman, AEC visits Tarapur Atomic Power Station, Commends the continuing legacy of world’s oldest running power reactors

• TAPS Units 1 & 2 — twin 160 MWe Boiling Water Reactors (BWR) at Tarapur, Maharashtra; commissioned 1969; currently the world's oldest operating commercial nuclear power reactors and Asia's first commercial nuclear power units.
• Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty, Secretary DAE & Chairman AEC, visited TAPS on 17 June 2026 to review the AERB-approved life extension and commend NPCIL's role in the Nuclear Energy Mission.
• Examined for GS-III (Science & Tech / Energy Security) and Prelims (atomic energy institutions, reactor types).