KUDANKULAMNUCLEAR

POWERPLANTSome informations

BRIEF ABOUT THE PROJECT1. Kudankulam Powerplant project is proposed by Indian Government at Kudankulam village of Tirunelveli district of Tamilnadu.

2. An Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) on the project was signed on 20 November 1988 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and then Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev, for the construction of two reactors.

3. Construction began on 31 March 2002, with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) predicting that the first unit would be operational in March 2007, instead of the original target of December 2007

4. The capacity of each reactor will be 1000 MW or 1 GW. The new reactors would bring the total capacity of the power plant to 6000 MW or 6 GW.

5. The original cost of the two units was ₹13,171 crore, but it was later revised to ₹17,270 crore ($2.6 billion). Russia advanced a credit of ₹6,416 crore ($0.97 billion) to both the units.

6. The first reactor of the plant attained criticality on 13 July 2013 at 11:05 pm

LOCATION

TECHNICAL AND ECONOMICAL REASONS FOR SELECTING Kudankulam site The Site Selection Committe recommended setting up a

nuclear powerplant in Kudankulam based on the large land and sea areas, available of cooling water and low population distribution in that village.

We have get the cooling water and process water from sea and transport the fuels from other countries to our country via sea is a easy way.

Co-ordinates of the Kudankulam Nuclear Powerplant is

Longitude:77.71327 Lattitude:8.1691

FACTS OF THE KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT

Power Generation First Stage: 2*1000=2000MW Completion: 6*1000=6000MW Reactors Water-Water Energetic Reactor (VVER) series on the Pressurized Water Reactor(PWR) with capacity of 1000 MW Land Requirement In Plant site around radius 2 – 5 kms.

Investment The cost of the plant is 17,270 crore (2.6 Billion)

Fuel Supply This Project is India – Russia combined Project. So,the fuel is supply from Russia through Ships via sea. Type of Fuel Enriched Uranium is used as a fuel in powerplant.

PROBLEMS IN KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWERPLANT BEFORE GET PERMISSION The coolant water and low-grade waste from the KKNPP are going to

be dumped in to the sea which will have a severe impact on fish production and catch. This will undermine the fishing industry, push the fisherfolks into deeper poverty and misery and affect the food security of the entire southern Tamil Nadu and southern Kerala.

Even when the KKNPP projects function normally without any incidents and accidents, they would be emitting Iodine 131, 132, 133, Cesium 134, 136, 137 isotopes, strontium, tritium, tellurium and other such radioactive particles into our air, land, crops, cattle, sea, seafood and ground water. Already the southern coastal belt is sinking with very high incidence of cancer, mental retardation, down syndrome, defective births due to private and government sea-sand mining for rare minerals including thorium. The KKNPP will add many more woes to our already suffering people.

PROBLEMS IN KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWERPLANT BEFORE GET PERMISSION The then Minister of State in the Ministry of

Environment and Forest Mr.Jairam Ramesh announced a few months ago that the central government had decided not to give permission to KKNPP 3-6 as they were violating the Coastal Regulation Zone stipulations. It is pertinent to ask if KKNPP 1 and 2 are not violating the CRZ terms.

The important issue of liability for the Russian plants has not been settled yet. Defying the Indian nuclear liability law, Russia insists that the Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA), secretly signed in 2008 by the Indian and Russian governments, precedes the liability law and that Article 13 of the IGA clearly establishes that NPCIL is solely responsible for all claims of damages.

PROBLEMS IN KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWERPLANT BEFORE GET PERMISSION These are the some major problems said by Dr.Udayakumar Ph.D . He is the one of the people was oppose the KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWERPLANT PROJECT. Who is Udayakumar…? S. P. Udayakumar is a teacher, writer and anti-

nuclear activist from Tamil Nadu, India. He is the convenor of the People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), which is protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant project.

COMPONENTS NEED

Nuclear Reactor Fuel rods Control rods Modulator Reflector Coolant Pressure vessell

1. Pressure Equalizer

2.Heat Exchanger

3.Steam Turbine

4.Generator 5.Condenser

6.Cooling Pump

Operation

ADVANTAGESAND

DISADVANTAGES

CONCLUSION

Using the Nuclear Energy for useful Not for other illegal activities like TERRORISM etc., We already know the HIROSHIMA and NAGASHAKI atom bomb blasts. Use the energy in such a good way and enjoy the life..

BY S.RAJKAPOORKHAN