The Project
Location: Koodankulam is located in Tirunelveli district, on Tamil Nadu’s southern tip
Number of reactors in Phase 1: Two reactors, of 1,000 MW each
One thousand and nine hundred mini-solar photovoltaic (SPV) plants of 500 Watt each will be established in various village panchayats during the current financial year under the State government's scheme of energisation of street lights with solar power.
These mini-SPV plants are meant for 19,000 street lights, new and the existing located in clusters.
Talks to break the logjam over the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project made no headway today with protestors terming as “failure” the discussions with the Central government’s expert com
Any more fears not based on scientific principles, says member
The reactors of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project having state-of-the-art safety features are the safest, the Central panel of experts has certified. Explaining the features of the KKNPP's 1,000 MWe VVER reactors, the panel's convener A. E. Muthunayagam, an oceanography expert, said that safety measures
Farmers in Ambur area complained of pollution of groundwater sources in the area on account of the indiscriminate discharge of effluents from the tanneries into the Palar river. An official of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board said that 50 per cent of the salt is recovered from the tannery effluents in the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in Thuthipet near Ambur.
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched a three-year village development programme at Killukottai village at Kundrandarkovil in the district recently.
The second meeting of the experts committees formed by the central and the Tamil Nadu governments to allay fears about the Koodamkulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu ended in a stalemat
The headquarters of the Tamil Nadu Biodiversity Conservation and Greening Project will be established at Nanmangalam Reserve Forest at a cost of Rs.8 crore, Forest Minister K. T.
