Kudankulam N-power plant to go on stream in `a few days’: report
08 Feb 2013
Power will start flowing from the first 1,000 MW unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in the next few days and officials at the plant are busy taking all final steps to ensure safety, reports quoting a senior official said.
''We are reaching there. It is a matter of days now,'' the Hindu Business Line quoted Ravi Bhushan Grover, principal adviser, Department of Atomic Energy, as saying on the sidelines of the India Energy Congress.
Engineers are carrying out a thorough check of the first unit of the project, being built with Russian collaboration, he said.
''We have to check at every stage. Whenever we find something, we correct it and move forward. We cannot take any chances. Safety has to be guaranteed,'' the paper quoted Grover as saying.
He said the engineers were gradually heating up the reactor systems to the maximum after which the plant would again be put through a series of tests.
On Tuesday, KNPP officials said they are confident of increasing the first reactor systems' temperature to 280 degrees Centigrade in a day or two while electrical systems in the second unit have been charged.
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