Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project’s First unit of 1000 MW to be commissioned by end May 2012…

Power India found that first reactor of 1000 MW of the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project will be commissioned by end of May 2012.

 

According to Mr. V. Narayansamy, Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO):

“Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) officials were at the Kudankulam project site and inspecting the plant. The first reactor of 1000 MW will be operational within 40 days from today. AERB was expected to give its certification to the plant in about a week after which uranium -- the fuel for power generation -- will be loaded in the plant.  We will have a trial run for 20 days after which the first reactor will start generating power."

 

Further as said by Mr. Narayanasamy,  the second unit of 1000 MW was expected to be commissioned within two months of the first one.

He said over 2000 engineers, from India and Russia, were working day and night for the purpose of power generation from the project.

The Rs 15,824-crore project had witnessed eight-month- long protests from anti-nuclear power groups and some locals who had apprehensions on the safety aspects of the plant.

The work on the plant was suspended in October last year soon after the hot-run which a process to test the reactor systems and pipelines using dummy fuel.

 

 

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