Both units of Kundankulam project operating at rated capacity

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New Delhi : The delay in the completion of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Units – 1&2 (2X1000 MW) was mainly due to delay in sequential receipts of equipment from Russian Federation and subsequent local protests at the site.

The domino effect of the protests, demobilisation & subsequent remobilisation of resources, various litigations, complying with the directives of the Court before commissioning of the plant took time. In addition, being the first-of-a-kind reactor in India of large unit size and with many imported equipments/components, the reviews and regulatory clearances also took time, according to a PIB release.

The delay resulted in rescheduling completion of KKNPP-1 from December 2007 to May-2013 and of KKNPP-2 from December-2008 to October 2013. At present, both the units are in commercial operation and are operating at their rated capacity. They have cumulatively generated about 23,122 Million Units of electricity as on January 29, 2018.

This was stated by Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh,  in a written replies to questions by Majeed Memon in the Rajya Sabha on February 8, 2018.