NEW DELHI, 15 OCT: Russia today made very clear to India its unhappiness over two key bilateral issues ~ the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) units 3 and 4 and investments by its telecom comp

Russia on Monday expressed its displeasure over the civil nuclear liability law that seeks to cover Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) 3 and 4 and problems faced by its telecom company Sistema saying that the rules of the game should not be changed mid-way.

Unit 1 of KKNPP is due to be commissioned soon, while Unit 2 is at an advanced stage and will be commissioned next year. Addressing a joint press conference after co-chairing the Indo-Russian Inter-Governmental Commission meeting on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC), external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin resolved to meet the desired bilateral trade target of `20 billion by 2015.

The State unit of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) has adopted a resolution urging the Centre to allot the entire quantum of power generated by the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project to Tamil Nadu initially.

At the end of the unit’s executive committee meeting at Sathyamurti Bhavan on Monday, its president M. Yuvaraj told reporters that fuel was being loaded into the Kudankulam units one and two. As Tamil Nadu was reeling under a power crisis for years, the power produced by these plants was essential for the State to tide over the situation. Protestors who were spreading misinformation should be immediately arrested.

The visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Sunday said the cost of the next phase of Kudankulam atomic project would go up if Russia has to foot the additional liabilities arising

Documentary film that shows different facets of the issue

A thousand vociferous appeals in Tamil against a nuclear plant merge into Bob Marley’s inspiring call to fight for one’s rights. A little girl arranges electric bulbs to form the words, ‘Say no to nuclear’. Cut to images from a city street filled with high-decibel news channel airwaves, describing the tense situation near the Kudankulam nuclear plant as passersby stop to take a look at the TV screens near a shop window.

Ahead of a bilateral meeting here Monday, Russia said Sunday the cost of the next phase of the Kood-ankulam atomic project will rise if it has to bear extra liabilities in case of a possible nuclear accident.

Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin, who has come for the Inter-Governmental Commission meeting, told reporters: “If there are several points that require additional assurances, of course it will require additional money to be paid by India.”

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked a vital question on the foreign suppliers’ liability in case of an accident in reactors at Kudankualm nuclear power project: whether reactors 2 and 3

Kudankulam plant must be governed by constitutional principles of absolute liability and ‘polluter pays’

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre on a writ petition seeking a direction that the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu not commissioned without resolving Russia’s liability in case of a nuclear accident. A Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra granted the Centre three weeks to respond to the petition by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, Common Cause, the former Union Power Secretary E.A.S. Sarma and social activist from Tamil Nadu G. Sundarrajan.

A sea-based agitation against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project passed off peacefully on Monday, with around 700 boats, including 150 mechanised vessels, carrying more than 3,000 fishermen participating in the protest.

With black flags fluttering on their boats, protesters raised slogans against the ready-to-be-commissioned nuclear complex and the Central and State governments.

Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC), which completed initial fuel loading at the Kudankulam plant, would soon seek the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) nod to close the reactor vessel before starting the process for the reactor to attain criticality.

Meanwhile, NPC and the Depart-ment of Atomic Energy are preparation its arguments on safety measures at the Kudankulam project for Thursday’s hearing in the Supreme Court. NPC has finished initial fuel loading in phase-I of the project on October 2.