PM Modi, Russian Prez Vladimir Putin to jointly dedicate Kundalkulam Nuclear Plant Unit-I today

In Tamil Nadu, the first unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant will be dedicated to nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalaithaa jointly through video conferencing today.

In the function to be held at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Corporation Chairman SK Sharma, Russian company Atomstroy Export President Limareenko and site Director Sundar will be attending. The first unit of Kudankulam nuclear power plant attained criticality in July 2013. Till now more than 10,800 million units of power has



been generated from the first unit.

The 1000 Mega watt Kudankulam nuclear power plant was built with Russian expertise following a pact between the then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet leader Mikahil Gorbachev in November 1988.

The first unit was synchronized with southern power grid on October 22 in 2013and commercial power generation started by the end of December 2014. Kudankulam Site director Sundar told that AERB experts are monitoring the second unit and is expected to be synchronized with southern grid by this month end.