Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station currently under construction in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Project investment cost to India was estimated to be US$ 3 billion (Rs.13,615 Crores) in a 2001 agreement.
As of November 2011, thousands of protesters and villagers living around the plant are trying to avoid the possible disasters like Fukushima by blocking highways and staging hunger strikes, preventing further construction work, as they believe that the nuclear plant is unsafe.The Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) are fighting for about 25 years in Koodankulam.
An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 20, 1988 by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The project remained in limbo for 10 years due to political and economic upheaval in Russia after the post-1991 Soviet breakup, and also due to objections of the United States on the grounds that the agreement does not meet the 1992 terms of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
A small port became operational in Kudankulam on January 14, 2004. This port was established to receive barges carrying over sized light water reactor equipment from ships anchored at a distance of 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi). Until 2004 materials had to be brought in via road from the port of Tuticorin, risking damage during transportation.
In June 2011, Sergei Ryzhov, the chief designer of the light water VVER nuclear reactors used at this Nuclear Power Plant was killed in an airplane accident. The plane belonging to the Rus-Air airlines was flying from Moscow to the Karelian capital Petrozavodsk.
Two 1 GW reactors of the VVER-1000 model are being constructed by the Nuclear Power corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Atomstroyexport. When completed they will become the largest nuclear power generation complex in India producing a cumulative 2 GW of electric power.
Activists leading the agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) want the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to convert the nuclear power plant into coal-fuelled thermal power station.
The Rs 13,000-crore Kudankulam Atomic Power Project’s (KKAPP) reactor pressure vessel (RPV), considered to be the heart of the nuclear power plant.
As of November 2011, thousands of protesters and villagers living around the plant are trying to avoid the possible disasters like Fukushima by blocking highways and staging hunger strikes, preventing further construction work, as they believe that the nuclear plant is unsafe.The Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) are fighting for about 25 years in Koodankulam.
An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 20, 1988 by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The project remained in limbo for 10 years due to political and economic upheaval in Russia after the post-1991 Soviet breakup, and also due to objections of the United States on the grounds that the agreement does not meet the 1992 terms of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
A small port became operational in Kudankulam on January 14, 2004. This port was established to receive barges carrying over sized light water reactor equipment from ships anchored at a distance of 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi). Until 2004 materials had to be brought in via road from the port of Tuticorin, risking damage during transportation.
In June 2011, Sergei Ryzhov, the chief designer of the light water VVER nuclear reactors used at this Nuclear Power Plant was killed in an airplane accident. The plane belonging to the Rus-Air airlines was flying from Moscow to the Karelian capital Petrozavodsk.
Two 1 GW reactors of the VVER-1000 model are being constructed by the Nuclear Power corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and Atomstroyexport. When completed they will become the largest nuclear power generation complex in India producing a cumulative 2 GW of electric power.
Activists leading the agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) want the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) to convert the nuclear power plant into coal-fuelled thermal power station.
The Rs 13,000-crore Kudankulam Atomic Power Project’s (KKAPP) reactor pressure vessel (RPV), considered to be the heart of the nuclear power plant.
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