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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kudankulam row: Protesters to lay siege to Tuticorin Port today

Kudankulam row: Protesters to lay siege to Tuticorin Port today

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published Published on Sep 22, 2012   modified Modified on Sep 22, 2012
-The Times of India

The anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) protesters may attempt to hold demonstrations and lay siege to Tuticorin port and government offices on Saturday. They had on Friday threatened to stop all activities at the port. The protest will be led by activist SP Udayakumar, according to media reports.

Shipping minister GK Vasan had on Friday urged the anti-nuclear plant activists at Kudankulam to desist from stalling activity at the VOC Port (formerly Tuticorin port).

The Kudankulam nuclear power plant has not yet been made operational. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has begun loading enriched uranium fuel rods in the first reactor of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu following a nod from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).

India's atomic energy regulator on Friday said it has given its nod to Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd (NPCIL) to load enriched uranium fuel rods in the first reactor at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu.

"We have given the nod to NPCIL to load the fuel at KNPP on Tuesday. NPCIL has completed the stipulations that we had earlier laid in our Aug 10 sanction to load the fuel," Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) chairman SS Bajaj said from Vienna, where he is attending the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference.

According to him, it would take around 8-10 days for NPCIL to complete the fuel loading process.

"NPCIL has fulfilled all the conditions that had been laid by us," Bajaj said.

The NCPIL, the country's atomic power plant operator, is in the process of loading the 163 enriched uranium fuel rods in the first reactor at KNPP from Wednesday, sources told IANS.

Senior NPCIL officials were however not available to comment on the issue.

The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), in a statement on Friday, demanded NPCIL stop the fuelling process immediately.

NPCIL is setting up the KNPP at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district, around 650 km from Chennai with two Russian-made VVER 1,000 MW reactors.

After the reactor is fuelled, activities to approach first criticality-starting fission chain reaction, for the first time in a reactor, will be taken up.

Then the power generation will be gradually scaled up on AERB's permission, based on the results of various studies.

Observers from IAEA are expected at KNPP as the reactors fall under the safeguard agreement.

The KNPP is an outcome of the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) signed between India and the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1988. However, the project construction only began in 2001.

The Times of India, 22 September, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Kudankulam-row-Protesters-to-lay-siege-to-Tuticorin-Port-today/articleshow/16501200.cms


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