Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) alleged that there were serious problems with the safety of the plant.
CHENNAI: The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant is in trouble again. Even as the authorities are on record that the first unit of the reactor complex would be commissioned in 40 days, the leaders of the Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) alleged on Monday that there were serious problems with the safety of the plant.
“We hear recurrent rumors that there are serious problems in the reactor pressure vessel, and that there is a perennial water spring near the reactor building that plague the KNPP and that is why some 18 Russian scientists have been invited urgently to work on the project,” the PMANE leaders said in a release. They wanted the KNPP officials to tell the people the whole truth about the problems involved in the delay of the project, present a White Paper on the total cost of the project and explain how much public money has been spent on all these recent visits of Russians and other Public Relation exercises.
The statement comes immediately after the visit of a team of specialists headed by Valery Limarenko, chief, Atomstroyexports, the Russian company constructing the reactors at Koodankulam, last Thursday. SK Jain, chairman, NPCIL, who accompanied the Russian experts had told on Thursday that he was waiting for the clearance from Atomic Energy Regulatory Bopard to open the reactor pressure vessel for inspecting the internal components performance before loading of enriched uranium fuel rods.
The PMANE leaders Pushparayan and SP Udaya Kumar said they would resume the indefinite fast against the KNPP from May 1, the International workers Day. “The district administration had promised to unconditionally release all activists from prisons and to withdraw all false and foisted cases against volunteers who took part in the agitation against the KNPP. The authorities had also agreed to institute an independent national committee to study the hydrology, geology and oceanography issues and to conduct disaster management and evacuation exercises to all the people in 30 km radius from the KNPP. But they have not bothered to keep these promises," said Pushparayan and Udaya Kumar in the release.
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