Koodankulam NPP's first rector could be commissioned before end of 2011 - official
MOSCOW. Nov 10 (Interfax-AVN) - The construction of the first power unit at the Russian-built nuclear power plant (NPP) in the Indian town of Koodankulam is nearing completion, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday.
"The launch of the first power unit is expected at the end of this year and the launch of the second power unit, in half a year," Ivanov told the fifth Russian-Indian trade and investment forum in Moscow.
Talks over the terms for the construction of the third and fourth power units in Koodankulam are nearing completion, Ivanov said.
The construction of the Koodankulam NPP in India is carried out under the agreement dated November 20, 1988, and an annex thereto dated June 21, 1998. The customer is the Nuclear Power Corporation of India. In 2002, Russia's Atomstroyexport started the construction of the first two power units with VVER-1000 2,000-megawatt pressurized water reactors.
In addition, in 2010 the parties signed an agreement for the construction of the second phase of the Kudankulam NPP (1,000-megawatt reactors N3 and N4).
