Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant - Do You Support it ?

Do You Support Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant ?

Chennai, Activists continued to protest outside Tamil Nadu's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) Friday, preventing employees of the plant from going inside to work.

For the past six days, 106 people have been on fast demanding scrapping of the nuclear power project. The relay fast is being held at Idinthakarai village near Kudankulam in the district, around 650 km from here.

Villagers have surrounded all the entry points to KNPP.

Around 25 employees, forming part of essential services group, were escorted by police to the plant at 5 a.m., a senior official on condition of anonymity told IANS.

Around 1,000 contract workers are working at the site.

"The condition is tense. So please wait for other employees to be escorted," a police officer said.

KNPP officials told IANS that plant maintenance was being taken care of by skeletal staff. On an average, around 1,000 people work per shift.

Giving a boost to the Kudankulam protesters, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa had said Thursday: "I am one amongst you. The Tamil Nadu government will act in a way that respects the local people's feelings."

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) is building two 1,000 MW capacity nuclear power reactors with Russian technology and equipment in Kudankulam. The first unit is expected to go on stream in December.

The total project cost is estimated to be around Rs.11,500 crore.

The activists are angry with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for telling Jayalalithaa that the state's industrialisation would be impacted by the non-availability of electricity if the 2,000 MW Kudankulam nuclear power project was scrapped.

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News & Politics

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• Tamil Nadu
• Manmohan Singh
• J. Jayalalithaa
• Koodankulam
• N-Plant Chennai
• Anti-nuke power activists
• Villagers
• Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant
• Ratnagiri
• Protest
• NPC
• Russia

[cooldheena1262]

Yes, We sure need It. Some criminals are misleading the fishermen and the local people.

[cooldheena1262]

Many other states than Kerala and West Bengal have NPP. Even Gujarat, which is considered the best one in total India has 2 NPPs.

[sbalamurugesan]

Since the nuclear plant being assembled at Kudankulam is absolutely safe, it is better to dismantle and re-assemble it near Chennai or Bombay or Calcutta or even N.Delhi to feed the industries and major consumers. We can also avoid the line-losses amounting to 24% of what is generated (thieves). We can sell this technology obtained through an exclusive collaboration with the Martians, to US, UK, France, Japan, Germany and Russia. Also give battalion strong security to our GREAT scientists.

[angelialvares]

Expensive dangerous form of energy. India is missing out on the Energy Technology Revolution of Solar of the advanced countries. India is 20 years behind the West. Now jumping into the west's phased out dangerous nuclear power program, it will enter the dark ages, increasing it's cancer cases, running up mega big bills for uranium (which is scarce) big costs for foreign scientists as there are no indian nuclear scientists, big costs for decommissioning and waste handling and disposal. Stupid!

[k7raman]

The establishment and proceedings of a nuclear power plant is always lacking transparency. Of course we cant expect it in such process. This only leads to corruption. Remember Bhopal accident. What is the reason for that ? Nuclear energy is not untouchable. But the technology in the current form is not good for use. It will have to evolve.

[darlinjose1]

@thanmaanathamizhan i support u dear u r very correct,,,,,,,,,,all developed countries are dropping this project and adapting in to solar energy....v hv 2 find some other alternatives instead of following others......

[darlinjose1]

@karthijais ...hello friend....do you know the medical consequences of this project?...kindly u do resrch and give ur opinion in on dis issue.....there r alternatives which can replace dis project......senseless, selfish and mad indians......