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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kudankulam nuclear plant gets Jaya go-ahead

Kudankulam nuclear plant gets Jaya go-ahead

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published Published on Mar 20, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 20, 2012
-The Times of India

With Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa giving the nod for the Kudankulam nuclear power plants, Russia said that it was going to send its scientists to the site on Tuesday to start commissioning work for the first unit of the reactors. Russian officials in India said that Moscow stood vindicated by Jayalalithaa's decision to back the reactors that couldn't be commissioned last year because of sudden protests by locals.

"If local authorities guarantee security, a team of Russian scientists will be sent to the plant on Tuesday itself to start the commissioning work," Russian embassy senior counselor Sergey Karmalito told TOI. The two pressurized water reactors being built by the state-owned Atomstroy Export at Kudankulam are 98% complete.

"Despite not being allowed to access the site, more than 80 scientists have stayed put in India. We understand that a team of Indian officials visited the plant today and we are waiting for their report," he added.

Karmalito said that there was never any doubt in the minds of Russian scientists about what decision the Tamil Nadu government was going to take. "We welcome the decision taken by the chief minister. The reactors at Kudankulam are the safest in the world in terms of technology," he said.

Russia maintains that the "third-generation" safety features in the Kudankulam reactors, including the design which would allow them to function safely under seismic activity, make them "four times" safer than those in Fukushima that suffered a nuclear accident last March after being hit by tsunami.

While the protestors at Kudankulam cited Fukushima as the reason for blocking work on the reactors, Russian ambassador Alexander M Kadakin last year, ahead of PM Manmohan Singh's visit to Moscow, raised questions over the funding of the protests and also how these had erupted only six months after the Fukushima incident.

In an interview to a science magazine, the PM had said in February that the Indian atomic energy programme had got into difficulties because the NGOs, mostly based in the US, didn't appreciate the country's need to ramp up its energy supply.

The Times of India, 20 March, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kudankulam-nuclear-plant-gets-Jaya-go-ahead/articleshow/12335496.cms


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