SC refuses to stay fuel loading at Kudankulam
13 Sep 2012
The Supreme Court today refused to stay the fuel loading of the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam and has put off the hearing in the matter to next Thursday.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of people from Tamil Nadu's Idinthakarai village, the epicentre of the protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) stood in the sea to protest against loading uranium fuel in one of the two reactors.
The process of loading fuel, was to have begun on Monday last, but it had to be abandoned due to protests.
The villagers said they would carry out their 'jal satyagraha' or peaceful water protest till 6 pm.
Taking a cue from a 'jal satyagraha' in Madhya Pradesh against the Omkareshwar Dam on the Narmada, the villagers from around the nuclear plant formed a human chain.
Social activist Medha Patkar told a TV channel that any kind of satyagraha where people were willing to take their lives was not an ordinary protest and it was a non-violent appeal to the powers that be who needed to listen to people.
