Commissioning of Koodankulam plant postponed

Executive Director of NPCIL said periodic inspection of RPV and its internals and such other components during operation is a mandatory regulatory requirement and indeed, an internal part of plant operation. |PTI NPCIL has sought to reassure a group ...

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has postponed the expected date of commissioning of the first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to next month. With physical progress completed up to 99.66 per cent, the 1,000 MW first unit is expected to be commissioned next month, the NPCIL website said. Earlier, the NPCIL expected it to be commissioned by this month. The NPCIL is building two 1,000 MW VVER nuclear power units with Russian collaboration at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district of ...

The nuclear plant project has missed several deadlines since December last year following protests by locals over safety concerns. (File/PTI) Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has postponed the expected date of commissioning of the first unit ...

The scientists said they were not advocating for or against nuclear energy but favoured being assured on matters related to safety. | PTI/File Sixty leading scientists have voiced concern over safety of the Koodankulam nuclear power project and ...

In an interview to rediff.com, Mr. R. S. Sundar, the site director of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), has claimed that the KKNPP is not a Russian turnkey project. Here is Mr. Sundar's categorical answer to Mr. A. Ganesh Nadar's ...

"As of now, the test reports and the results submitted by NPCIL relating to the first unit of KKNPP are satisfactory. A team of experts will be going to KKNPP Monday. If all things go well, it will be in matter days we will issue the sanction for ...

'We are restricting the media because of the difficulties we are facing with the media. The public have been visiting the plant regularly,' says R S Sundar, site director at the controversial Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu. 'The public is knowledgeable. They ask as many questions as journalists. We have faced tough questions from them, clarified their doubts and convinced them.' On Monday, May 6, the Supreme Court gave its go-ahead to the controversial Koodankulam Nuclear ...

The green signal the Supreme Court has given to the Koodankulam nuclear power plant should not be construed by the plant authorities as a carte blanche. As the court explained, the larger public interest of the community should give way to ...

Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan has said that the Supreme Court verdict granting operational clearance to Koodankulam Nuclear Plant, amidst the apprehension that the government has not ensured the safety of the plant, is unfortunate. He said in ...