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Situation tense at Kudankulam N-plant, protests continue

Kudankulam: Situation is tense around the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday after one person was killed in police firing in Tuticorin yesterday as anti-nuclear protesters turned violent.

Today is day three of the fresh protests against the nuclear plant and thousands of demonstrators spent last night camping in the open.
Several protesters are on hunger strike, opposing the imminent loading of uranium fuel at the reactor.

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The police had to open fire yesterday in a bid to prevent protesters from laying siege to the atomic power plant in order to stall loading of uranium fuel.

A 44-year old fisherman was killed when police opened fire at a group of people who clashed with them while blocking a road in Manapad coastal village as the protest spilled to neighbouring Tuticorin district, police said.

At Kudankulam in Tirunelveli district, the main scene of protests for the last three days, police resorted to lathicharge and burst teargas shells to disperse over 2,000 protesters who fought pitched battles throwing stones and logs. 

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As the baton-wielding policemen chased away the protesters, many of them moved towards the sea to escape.

Sporadic violence then followed as enraged groups of protesters set fire to a local Panchayat office, the Village Administrative Officer's office and a state-run liquor retail shop in Kudankulam, in an ugly turn to the over year-long peaceful protest, police said.

The police action followed after authorities failed to persuade the protesters who defied prohibitory orders and stayed put at the seashore, about 500 metres away from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

Tuticorin, about 80 km from here, also saw about 500 people block the Mysore-bound train by squatting on the track, as also the highway connecting Nagercoil.
Condemning the police action, People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy, spearheading the protest against KNPP, announced a 48-hour relay fast against it. 

Kudankulam Power Plant:-

Kudankulam Atomic Power Project is a nuclear power station under construction in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction has been delayed due to anti-nuclear protests by the locals and People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy. As a prelude to the commissioning of the first unit of the plant having the capacity of generating 1000 MW, Engineers started its pre-service inspection on 30 June 2012 which is likely to take 10-12 days. Recently, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board's inspection of the reactor pressure vessel of Unit-1 was completed and no defects therein were found.

Kandankulam History:-

An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed on November 20, 1988 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, for the construction of two reactors. The project remained in limbo for a decade due to the political and economic upheaval in Russia after the post-1991 Soviet breakup. There were also objections from the United States, on the grounds that the agreement does not meet the 1992 terms of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). Construction began only in September 2001 and the cost was estimated to be US$3 billion (Rs.13,615 Crores).

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A small port became operational in Kudankulam on 14 January 2004. This port was established to receive barges carrying over sized light water reactor equipment from ships anchored at a distance of 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi). Until 2004 materials had to be brought in via road from the port of Tuticorin, risking damage during transportation.

In 2008 negotiation on building four additional reactors at the site began. Though the capacity of these reactors has not been declared, it was expected that the capacity of each reactor will be 1200 MW or 1.2 GW. The new reactors would bring the total capacity of the power plant to 9200MW or 9.2 GW

In June 2011, Sergei Ryzhov, the chief designer of the light water VVER nuclear reactors used at this Nuclear Power Plant was killed in an airplane accident. The plane belonging to the Rus-Air airlines was flying from Moscow to the Karelian capital Petrozavodsk.

Kudankulam nuclear plant: Police lathicharge protesters
Police lathicharged and fired teargas shells on villagers protesting against Kundakulam nuclear plant at Vairavikinaru shore to chase them away on Monday morning. The villagers, men and women ran helter-skelter from the shore, some of them into the sea as police personnel began to chase them. Some of the villagers also retaliated by throwing stones at the police.

The incident sparked fresh round of tension in the coastal villages in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts where fishermen are opposing the multi-crore Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), an Indo-Russian venture, which is to be commissioned soon.

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"The situation is now under control," ADGP (Law and Order) S George told reporters in the afternoon. While at least a dozen villagers were injured, police too claimed that some of them were injured as protestors pelted stones at them.

The Vairavikinaru village shore, about half a kilometer from the nuclear project site, resembled a war zone as police fired tear gas shells forcing the protestors to run for safety. The whereabouts of People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) S P Udayakumar, who has been spearheading the protests, is not known.

The lathicharge started after south zone IG Rajesh Das issued a warning to the villages to leave the spot in ten minutes. When the villagers refused to leave, police lobbed tear gas shells at them and chased them away with lathis.

The protestors from Idinthakarai, Vijayapathi, Kutapuzhi and adjoining villages had gathered at Idinthakarai on Sunday morning and took out a march to Kudankulam, opposing enriched uranium fuel loading in the first reactor that is being prepared for commissioning. But police prevented them at Vairavikinaru and asked them to leave the spot. The villagers however decided to continue their protests at Vairavikinaru shore where collector R Selvaraj and SP Vijayendra Bidari held talks that failed.

Anti-Kudankulam protests turn violent, one killed in police firing

One person was killed in police firing in Tuticorin as anti-nuclear protesters turned violent on Sunday after police foiled their repeated attempts to lay siege to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) plant here against loading of uranium fuel. A 44-year old fisherman was killed when police opened fire at a group of people who clashed with them while blocking a road in Manapad coastal village as the protest spilled to neighbouring Tuticorin District, police said.

At Kudankulam in Tirunelveli District, the main scene of protests for the last two days, police resorted to lathicharge and burst teargas shells to disperse over 2,000 protesters who fought pitched battles throwing stones and logs. As the baton-wielding policemen chased away the protesters, many of them moved towards the sea to escape.

Sporadic violence then followed as enraged groups of protesters set fire to a local Panchayat office, the village administrative officer's office and a state-run liquor retail shop in Kudankulam, in an ugly turn to the over year-long peaceful protest, police said. The police action followed after authorities failed to persuade the protesters who, for the second day, defied prohibitory orders and stayed put at the seashore, about 500 metres away from the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

Tuticorin, about 80 km from here, also saw about 500 people block the Mysore-bound train by squatting on the track, as also the highway connecting Nagercoil. Condeming the police action, People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy, spearheading the protest against KNPP, announced a 48-hour relay fast against it.

Shinde sees foreign NGOs’ hand in Kudankulam

The Centre on Monday blamed foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for aiding protests against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu and reiterated that the government was committed to producing “clean and cheap” nuclear energy in the country.

“Foreign NGOs are supporting the movement…some [foreign] NGOs are interested in it [protests]. I am aware of these NGOs, but I am not going to name those countries [to which these NGOs belong],” Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told journalists here.

Pushing the case for nuclear energy, Mr. Shinde said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had made it clear that India needed nuclear energy, which was clean and a cheap source of energy. “Initially, the costs are high [for setting up the nuclear power plant]…but in 4-5 years it becomes a cheap source of energy. The cost of nuclear power is very low…we must have such energy,” he said.

Following protests against the project earlier this year, the government blamed some U.S.-based NGOs for trying to sabotage the plant.

Kudankulam protest

In recent times, if there has been a selfless and peaceful protest, it is the year-long protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power project by the people, most of them fisherfolk, in and around the Idinthakarai village. Unfortunately, the governments at the Centre and in Tamil Nadu have ignored their genuine demands and tried to suppress them. The protesters and activists have been projected as traitors. That we have already spent crores of rupees on the project cannot be reason enough to go ahead with it. Did we not stall the Sethu Canal project after sinking crores of rupees in order to give respect to the religious sentiments of people....,?

_ Tharcius S. Fernando,

..Chennai

As one who served as a member in the first Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and had the privilege of establishing a nuclear medicine department in CMCH, I find opposition to the Kudankulam plant unfortunate. A comparison with Japan — Fukushima — is not appropriate. It was not the failure of a nuclear reactor that caused the Fukushima disaster; it was a tsunami triggered by an earthquake that affected the reactor.

_ C.A. Jayachandran,

..Vellore

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