Kalam declares Kudankulam nuclear plant as totally safe
07 Nov 2011
Chennai: With India's nuclear power generation programme coming under increasing threat from agitations, which have gathered pace in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam visited the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu on Sunday and said the plant was totally safe and a "boon to the people".
"The third generation nuclear reactor is totally safe and is a boon to the people," Kalam told reporters at the site.
"The nuclear plant is built at a correct height and there is no threat of tsunami (damage)," he added.
He also said electricity is necessary for India's economic growth.
Dr Kalam clarified that his visit was "purely as a technologist and scientist and not to mediate with the protesters and to verify the safety features incorporated in the nuclear power plant located on the Indian coast".
He viewed the safety features of the two Russian reactors being set up at the nuclear park.
