Kudankulam Unit-I maintenance work to be completed this month

Loading of fuel in the first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, shut down since June 24 for maintenance, was being delayed 'for some reasons' and would be completed by this month end, a top official said today.
The loading of enriched uranium fuel in the 1000 MW Russian-made reactor would be completed by this month end and power generation resume thereafter, KNPP Director R S Sundar said.
The first unit has been operational commercially since December 2014.
As regards the second unit, removal of dummy fuel rods was underway, he told reporters here on the sidelines of a two-day expo "Engergising Future India", organised jointly by the KKNP and the Anna university Tirunelveli region.

He assured that the waste fuel from the Unit I of the plant had been kept safely.
Sundar said the concrete laying for the fourth and fifth units of the KNPP would begin next year.