Kudankulam on the path of Chernobyl | English Version I TuNo
Channel: TuNo
Date: 2018-05-12

An Interview with Researcher V.T.Padmanabhan

Mr.V.T.Padmanabhan is a researcher continuously involved in a rigorous study of the technological, safety and generation history of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant’s (#KNNPP) first two units. Mr. Pon Chandran, a human rights activist, interviews him on behalf of #TuNo Media. This is an interview of great historical significance.

The operational history of these two units highlight all the problems that crop up when a developed, technologically advanced nation like #Russia collaborates with a less advanced one like #India, to build #nuclear reactors. However, the case of these two Indian examples give us a very special lesson because of the prior presence of a nuclear bureaucracy. One is able to understand clearly, without any doubt, the effect that geo-politics has on the day to day operational history of these plants.

This interview informs that the nuclear reactors built in such a structured world environment, are quickly sliding in to the path that the doomed Chernobyl reactor took. 

- TuNo Team