The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has given its approval for the removal of dummy fuel and loading of real fuel (enriched uranium) in the first unit (1000 MW capacity) of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu.
The loading of real fuel would begin soon and thereafter, a trial run would go on for approximately 20 days before attaining criticality (commissioning), Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), V. Narayanasamy said here on Saturday.
Talking to The Hindu, the Minister said a team of 13 scientists had carried out a detailed study of the plant, including the pressure vessel and its internal components, before giving the ‘go ahead' on Thursday.
The activity in the second unit (also 1000 MW) was nearing completion and more than 95 per cent of the work there was over, he said.
India's largest nuclear power plant is just a month away. Congratulations to our brave and patriotic scientists of NPCIL.
Why not let the dummy remain. Because the effect is the same.But infinitely less harmful both as regards the energy consumed by the nuclear power programme and the danger to life for all time. The nuclear power programme consumes five times the energy that the programme is postulated to deliver during its entire life time according to my energy audit including embedded energy, the energy for storing nuclear wastes and decommissioning. And the world's nuclear reactors are complicit in the synergistic creation of 110 million infant mortalities from 1980 to 2010 for just 0.1% leak of Cs 137 isotope inventory. 10 million infant mortalities is the Indian share. The cancer death rates will also shoot up as my study shows for Tamilnadu, Maharashtra, Haryana and Kaiga. Further there is the threat of the dynamics of dams of the world in meeting water requirements causing nuclear explosions at nuclear parks fortuitiously situated as the surges travel to the sites via the crust
of the earth.
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