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India has two major nuclear plants in Tamil Nadu
Saturday, 12 May 2007 - 6:01 AM SL Time
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India has swung into action to strengthen its air power in southern India because it wants to ward off any threats to two of its major nuclear plants in Tamil Nadu from the fledgling Tamileelam Air Force (TAF) of the LTTE.
The nuclear installations that fall within the so-called TAF`s range of 200-300 nautical miles are the nearly quarter-century-old Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) and the under-construction Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP). Both are located along the coastline.
MAPS is at Kalpakkam, about 80km south of state capital Chennai. It is a near-comprehensive nuclear power production, fuel reprocessing and waste treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs).
Situated on the coast near Mamallapuram, it is India`s first fully indigenously constructed nuclear power station, and boasts of two units of 170 MW capacity each. The first unit became operational in 1983 and the second in 1985.
MAPS has reactors housed in a building with double shell containment ensuring total protection even in the remotest possibility of loss of coolant accident. An Interim Storage Facility (ISF) is also located in Kalpakkam.
Also situated here is the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), an affiliate of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). IGCAR is famous for the fast breeder test reactor, India`s first breeder reactor.
IGCAR has got another reactor named KAMINI(Kalpakkam Mini Reactor), the only reactor in the world to use uranium-233 isotope fuel, converted from thorium. It went critical in 1996, and produces 30 MW of thermal energy at full power. KAMINI is light water-cooled and moderated, and is fuelled with uranium-233 that`s produced by the irradiation of thorium in other reactors. It is also the first reactor of its kind in the world.
The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is located at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu`s Tirunelveli district. It is situated 25km northeast of Kanyakumari and 35km from Nagercoil. The US$3-billion plant is built with Russian nuclear technological assistance.
Two 1-GW units of the WER-1000 model are being constructed by the state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. One of them is expected to be completed by December this year, while the second unit is likely to be ready by December 2008 or early 2009.
When completed, the two units will comprise the country`s largest nuclear power generation complex and produce 2 GW electric power.
Four more reactors are set to be added to this plant to generate an additional 2.5 GW output. When completed, all the six units at Koodankulam will produce about 40% of the country`s nuclear power.
India is seriously considering the possibility of adding a naval base here---to safeguard the nuclear project as well as to have a naval presence in the country`s southern tip.
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tarquin
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11 May 2007 23:18:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Scaremongering by the totally incapable SL military.
What is the LTTE going to achieve by attacking nuclear plants in Tamil Nadu and killing thousands of its tamil brethren?
Any one with an iota of intelligence will see the desperation in the SL government's attempt to get Indian help to destroy the Tamileelam Air Force.
This pathetic attempt will not succeed. |
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11 May 2007 23:19:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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India has two major nuclear plants in Tamil Nadu
... and afraid of ltte's air raids. |
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11 May 2007 23:21:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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So what...who cares...
LTTE wont attack them...or I hope so they will
LTTE can help its image by attacking them and help bring tremendous suffering for the people of sri lanka |
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11 May 2007 23:23:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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What is the LTTE going to achieve by attacking nuclear plants in Tamil Nadu and killing thousands of its tamil brethren?
The same thing achieved by killing Rajiv Gandhi...
Edited By - Piyal - 11 May 2007 23:25:31 GMT |
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11 May 2007 23:31:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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Piyal Malli,
The same thing achieved by killing Rajiv Gandhi...
There was reason those days cos Rajiv sent the Indian troops to Jaffna..but it was a Mistake,
There is no reason now and LTTE will not make the same mistake!!
(hopefully)
We must understand this is an internal issue and the fight is between the Gosl and LTTE (not between Tamils & Sinhalese) |
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11 May 2007 23:34:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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This is the problem with dumb people, they look around and think everyone else is dumb too.
SL might not be capable of protecting itself but India is. If attacking a nuclear plant was that easy Pakistan would have done it using the terrorists that it trains on its soil.
Politicians in the caliber of Weerawanse in India might take this story and run but the real movers and shakers are just laughing. |
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11 May 2007 23:38:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Nuclear plants are fortified heavily.... a light plane almost has no chance to do any significant damage to a nuclear plant... |
JRJayawardena
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11 May 2007 23:40:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hi Berty,
We must understand this is an internal issue and the fight is between the Gosl and LTTE (not between Tamils & Sinhalese)
How are you bro? haven't seen you for sometime, were you checking on beautiful Chinese girls er ;))
Yes, I agree on that. But having said that LTTE time and time again have shown that they are the real representative tamils and tamils are LTTE so there's a hiccup on how to sieve non-violent tamils from LTTE-tamils (which are banned as a terror group).
Perhaps India are trying to disseminate that view.
If you are bored why not have something entertaining here;
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2007/5/14776_space.html
JRJ
Edited By - JRJayawardena - 11 May 2007 23:43:42 |
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11 May 2007 23:47:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Even if LTTE touch India by chance that will be the end of LTTE and the Eelam. It will amount to walking into a trap. |
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11 May 2007 23:49:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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JRJ, how is it going buddy?
Sorry, I could not follow up on your comment to my posting yesterday...
anyway, today, looks like GOSL is going to create a monstor out of LTTE by scaring India..... Would the Indians be dumb to believe these GOSL stories is the question in my mind... |
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