The wait is, finally, getting over. The first unit (of 1,000 MW) of the Kudankulam nuclear power project will be commissioned in June and power from the project will hit the grid in September.
From what sources say it looks like it is final, this time. For nearly two years now, officials have been saying that the project “is expected to be commissioned” at such-and-such month. But the revised target would always come with caveats and would never be met.
This time around it does not look like another false call because sources say that “everything is in place”.
The turbine has been erected, the steam-generator is at the site. The setting up of the reactor, a job that the Russian equipment supplier, Atomstroyexport, is doing by itself, is on track.
This is good news (mainly) for Tamil Nadu — a State that has been reeling under a peak power shortage of 2,000 MW for a couple of years now.
Tamil Nadu, being the host State, will get (a higher share of) 462.5 MW of the first unit (and as much when the second unit of 1,000 MW is also synchronised to the grid.)
The first unit of the Rs 13,000-crore project was originally scheduled to have begun supplying electricity in December 2007.
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