Madurai: The Centre on Saturday said it is confident of commissioning the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project to generate 1,000 MW of power in two months as 99 per cent of its works are over. Talking to reporters in Madurai, Union Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanaswamy said, "We only need to load uranium in the first unit for its functioning". Regarding the second unit,...
08:40 PM, Apr 07, 2012
New Delhi: India plans to add 5,300 MW nuclear power capacity during the 12th Plan period, taking the total contribution of atomic power to 9980 MW to the country's energy basket. This planned capacity addition includes power from two 1,000 MW units at Kudankulam being built by the Nuclear Power Corporation with Russian collaboration. "The proposed capacity addition target during the XIIth Plan is envisaged as 5300 MW," the budget...
04:49 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Madurai: A police constable allegedly beat up an anti-nuclear activist at a village near Kudankulam for requesting shopkeepers to down shutters in support of their movement against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. Pushparayan, convenor of the People's Movement against Nuclear Energy, spearheading the stir against KNPP, said the activist had severe chest and hand injuries but that his family was scared of filing a complaint, fearing harassment. In a statement in...
02:46 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Coimbatore: Lashing out at anti-nuclear activists, a former Atomic Energy Commission chief on Wednesday said that "certain professional agitators" had worked against the project at Kudankulam which was "one of the best sites" for a nuclear power station. The fisherfolk living around Kudankulam village were no doubt greatly agitated after the Fukushima disaster but "certain professional agitators, with motives of their own, have worked on the fears on the innocent...
04:37 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Tiruchy: A total of 127 anti-Kudankulam protesters, including 41 women, who were lodged in the Central Prison and the Special Prison for Women, were released on Tuesday after 15 days. The protesters, who were granted bail by the Valliyur court on Friday, fulfilled the bail conditions on Monday and were released on Tuesday. Since 29 other persons, including a woman, are facing other cases, they were taken to the Valliyur...
10:49 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Chennai: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allot all the power (2,000 mw) to be generated at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) to Tamil Nadu, to tide over the severe power shortage prevailing in the State. "I hope this request will be positively considered by you. May I also reiterate that we require and deserve this power," the CM said in her letter to...
09:24 PM, Apr 01, 2012
Chennai: After giving green signal to the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday demanded that the entire 2000 MW power to be generated by its two units be given to the state in view of the "severe power shortage." In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said it would be "proper and justifiable that the entire power to be generated from the Koodankulam...
12:33 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Chennai: Days after her government's green signal to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said the plant is expected to commence production in two months. "The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project is expected to commence production in two months", she said in the state assembly, elaborating on steps to increase energy availability to the power crisis hit state. The government had recently given its...
04:27 AM, Mar 30, 2012
Chennai: Betting on Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to bring some immediate relief to the power-shortage hit state, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said it was expected to go on stream in another two months, as she charged DMK with doing little to enhance capacity in its entire term. Her statement on Kudankulam came nearly 10 days after her cabinet gave the go ahead for the controversial Indo-Russian...
06:04 PM, Mar 29, 2012
TIRUNELVELI: A day after leaders of the Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) called off their indefinite fast, anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Project (KKNPP) protestors started a relay fast at Idinthakarai on Wednesday. After the government gave its nod to commence work at the Plant on March 19, 13 persons, led by PMANE coordinators S P Udaykumar and Pushparayan, started an indefinite fast at Idinthakarai. On Tuesday, talks were conducted...
11:00 AM, Mar 29, 2012
CHENNAI: Fuel loading, a crucial step towards commissioning the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, will done in a month or two, a senior official of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd said here on Tuesday. The plant is now fully ready to take the fuel, Shiv Abhilash Bhardwaj, Director (Technical), NPCIL, told reporters at IIT Madras.The plant was gearing up for fuel loading when the protests stopped works in October....
08:43 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Chennai: India is looking to localise up to 45 per cent of work in the third and fourth units of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant after working closely with Russian experts in the first two units, a senior official said on Tuesday. "It is a repeat of Kudankulam 1 and 2. What is required this time is that how much work we can do in India. So where do you partition...
03:46 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Tirunelveli: Anti-nuclear activists, spearheaded by SP Udaya Kumar, on Tuesday called off their 9-day- old fast launched by them after Tamil Nadu government gave the go-ahead for the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Udaya Kumar's decision came hours after a delegation of his supporters met senior district administration officials who assured them that their charter of demands would be conveyed to the government for consideration. "The officials promised to look...
09:09 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Tirunelveli: The condition of five persons including SP Udayakumar, who are fasting for the last eight days as part the Kudankulam agitation, worsened on Tuesday with doctors advising shifting them to a hospital, officials said. The anti-nuclear power plant activists led by People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMNE) are on an indefinite fast after the Tamil Nadu government gave its go-ahead to the Indo-Russian project on March 19, clearing decks...
12:56 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Tirunelveli: Continuing his fast against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, convener of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) SP Udayakumar said on Monday the protesters were "ready" for talks. "We are ready for talks. If we are considered people of this country and if our ahimsa protest is respected, government should talk to us. They should treat us like Indian people," Udayakumar, on an indefinite fast since March 12 along...
03:45 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Sivaganga: Home Minister P Chidambaram has said there was "some ulterior motive" behind continuance of the protest against the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam despite assurance from the government that it is safe. Addressing Congress Workers in Sivaganga on Sunday, he expressed serious concern over the power crisis in Tamil Nadu and asked the state government to take steps to find an early solution to the problem. On the stir...
12:12 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Kudankulam: It is been over a week since a group of anti-nuclear activists began an indefinite hunger strike demanding the scrapping of the Kudankulam nuclear plant. Over the last several months the Kudankulam nuclear plant has been in news for all the wrong reasons with massive protests demanding the closure of the plant. CNN-IBN visits the Kudankulam nuclear plant to try and find answers for some of the concerns raised...
06:39 AM, Mar 26, 2012
Chennai: It is day six of renewed protests against the Kudankulam nuclear plant project, and villagers are now being threatened with police action. Over 100 protesters have already been detained within this week itself. The feeling of anger and resentment on the ground in Idinthakarai can be felt in each of the several thousand protesters. 48-year-old Xavierammal is fasting in protest against the Kudankulam plant for the fourth time. She...
06:24 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Chennai: Around 500 people including MDMK chief Vaiko have been arrested after police stopped them from marching towards Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Second 144 has been imposed in and around the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant site. The renewed protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant enter the fifth day on Friday. The arrests come amidst the continuous crackdown on protestors by the Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu. The crackdown began...
02:39 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Chennai: As the renewed protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant enter the fifth day on Friday, statistics show that the government is losing close to Rs 10 lakh a day due to the protests on the project that cost over Rs 13,000 crore to set up. Work at the Indo-Russian project, which was at a standstill following eight month-long protests by locals spearheaded by People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy...
08:13 AM, Mar 23, 2012
