Centre urged to give up proposal to set up Kudankulam nuclear park

The Union Government should give up its proposal of establishing a ´Nuclear Park´ at Kudankulam by constructing four more reactors in addition to the already built first two 1,000 MW reactors with Russian assistance. Speakers at an anti-nuclear energy conference stressed this demand and urged the state and the Central Governments to be transparent by providing ´facts´ pertaining to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. Founder president of ´Pachchai Thamizhagam´ SP Udayakumar said power generation in the first reactor had been stopped on 32 occasions to confirm the charges levelled by anti-nuclear activists that reactors at Kudankulam had been fabricated with ´faulty technology and substandard components.´ However, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, the proponent of the project, and the Central Government were ´deceiving and misguiding´ the public by providing wrong information about the functioning of nuclear reactors of KKNPP.