-PTI Chennai: The much-delayed Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu has missed yet another deadline and is now likely to be commissioned by May. The commercial operation of the first of the 2x1000 MW reactors of the Indo-Russian project was expected by May, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has said. The second unit was also likely to be delayed with the expected commissioning pushed to December, it said. Minister of...

-The Hindu Environmentalists say EIL is not qualified to conduct study, want report to be reviewed by an independent experts panel Ahemedabad: Environmental experts and activists, who have alleged that Engineers India Limited (EIL) is not qualified and accredited as yet to conduct an environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the Mithivirdi nuclear power plant in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region, have found serious gaps in the EIA report itself in its present form. They have...

-The Hindu Chennai: When contacted on the allegations of environmentalists that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report, prepared by Engineers India Limited (EIL), withheld “crucial information” on the safety of the AP-1000 reactors that would come up at Mithivirdi, N. Nagaich, Executive Director (Corporate Planning and Corporate Communications), Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) said four AP-1000 reactors were under construction in China. The construction of each of these reactors...

-The Hindu TIRUNELVELI: The Kudankulam police have registered a case in connection with, what they felt, a “suspicious money transfer” from London to Kudankulam. The police said T. Ambika, wife of anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project activist Kumar alias Thavasi Kumar, had recently received Rs. 29,98,782 in her account with Canara Bank’s Kudankulam Banch from Anand based in the United Kingdom. As the bank officials informed the police about the huge deposit in the...

-The Business Standard Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) has denied allegation by a Sri Lankan interest group that the Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu was leaking radiation, and said the phase 1 of the project would be ready soon and power production would start by April-end. The Sri Lankan group, the People's Movement Against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, on Saturday alleged that the plant had been leaking radiation since February...