Kudankulam-II to be commissioned in 6-8 months: Indian envoy in Moscow
July 16, 2015 16:38
The second unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu will be commissioned in the next 6-8 months amid efforts to expedite the setting up of 12 atomic plants proposed to be built by Russia in India in two decades.
Indian Ambassador to Russia P S Raghavan said discussions are underway on the units III, IV, V and VI to be built at Kudankulam. Process is also underway to identify a site in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for a plant which was proposed to be set up in Haripur in West Bengal but could not materialise due to various factors, including protests by locals. "We are committed to the Russians... In last December (during the visit of President Vladimir Putin to India), we had decided that we will speed up the nuclear plant manufacture and that in two decades, we will have 12 power plants," Raghavan said.
Indian Ambassador to Russia P S Raghavan said discussions are underway on the units III, IV, V and VI to be built at Kudankulam. Process is also underway to identify a site in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for a plant which was proposed to be set up in Haripur in West Bengal but could not materialise due to various factors, including protests by locals. "We are committed to the Russians... In last December (during the visit of President Vladimir Putin to India), we had decided that we will speed up the nuclear plant manufacture and that in two decades, we will have 12 power plants," Raghavan said.
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