Kundakulam-II nuclear plant to restart generation on Friday

The second 1,000 MW atomic power unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) that suffered an outage on Monday due to a problem in its steam dump valve is expected to start operations on Friday, said a senior official of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).

“Due to some problem in the steam valve, the unit was shut down on Monday. We will be opening the valve today (Tuesday) to set right the issue. We expect the unit to start generating power on April 7,” HN Sahu,



site director of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP), told IANS on Tuesday.

Kudankulam is in Tirunelveli district around 650 km from here.According to Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO), the nuclear power unit is under forced outage from April 3 “to rectify the passing of steam dump valves to condenser in secondary side”.

He said the problem is not a series one.The unit started commercial operation on March 31, 2017.