The nuclear watch dog and regulator in India, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, has given its permission for the start of fuel loading into the controversial atomic reactor located close to the southern tip of India at Kanyakumari.
This could, however, be a red rag for the anti-nuclear protestors agitating against the start of the nuclear plant.
Several tons of enriched uranium will be slowly loaded into the Russian made 1000 MW nuclear. If all goes well in a few weeks it can start generating power that will be supplied to Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and Karnataka.
Post the Fukushima accident in Japan this will be the first nuclear reactor in India to start operation.
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