Some suggestions were for a short term and would be completed in six months, while some were long-term
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) said the safety measures it had recommended to enhance safety at the Kudankulam nuclear plant would be implemented through the next two years. Last year, following the disaster at the nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan, the AERB had reviewed the safety of all nuclear power plants in the country. An AERB committee had recommended various factors be considered before loading fuel into the Kudankulam plant. However, AERB has faced criticism for agreeing to load the fuel without heeding the recommendations.
The row over setting up the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu reached the Supreme Court on Tuesday with a petition, which sought its directions to restrain the Union government and other authorities from commissioning the controversial project.
The Special Leave Petition (SLP) by social activist G. Sundarrajan against the Madras High Court’s August 31, 2012 decision refusing to impose any restraint has claimed that non-implementation of various recommendations formulated by the government’s task force “puts to grave risk the safety of millions of citizens.”
Situation continues to be tense, violence spreads to villages of Uvari, Tiruchendur and parts of Tuticorin
The anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) agitation is now spreading to other parts of the Southern coastal districts of Tamil Nadu. While, the protesters (the local fishing community) have started the 48 hrs fasting at Idinthakarai, fishermen from Rameswaram, one of the largest fishing hub in the country, decided not to go the sea in support to Idinthakarai protesters.
Tension prevailed here for about five hours on Sunday as the police thwarted a bid by about 3,000 agitators to lay siege to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) site to protest fuel-loading in the reactor.
Earlier in the day, the protesters, led by the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy convener, S.P. Udayakumar, surprised the police, who deployed about 4,000 personnel, marched towards the site through the shore around noon.
Over 1,000 anti nuclear protesters made a vain bid to lay a siege at the controversial Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, protesting against the proposed loading of fuel.
If the Central and the State governments are for the welfare of the people, they, like the developed nations that are closing down the nuclear power programmes in a phased manner, should have chosen to give up the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss has said.
Addressing the anti-KKNPP protestors at Idinthakarai on Monday evening, Dr. Ramadoss said the nation had never witnessed such an “intense but peaceful agitation” in any part of the country in the past.
Clearing the decks for the commissioning of the much-delayed Kudankulam nuclear power plant, the Madras high court on Friday gave its green light saying there was no illegality in its plan and exec
The Madras High Court on Friday gave its nod to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), clearing the decks for the fuel loading and commissioning of unit 1 of the controversy-hit Indo-Russian
