Kudankulam operation faces snag second time

This is the second time the plant stopped operations after it was synchronised to the grid earlier last week.

The plant fed at an average 161 MWe to the southern grid on Tuesday,sharply lower than the 220 MWe that was injected on October 28,official involved in the exercise said.

Late Friday evening,the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant had been re-synchronised with the southern grid,four days after it was first synchronised with the grid but tripped after just a couple of hours of operations.

The first unit ,which was synchronised with the southern grid early morning on October 22,tripped after less than two hours of operation after generating a maximum power of 160 MWe,well short of the start-up power target of 300-350 MWe.

As and when the unit is re-synchronised,power generation will be gradually raised by state-owned NPCIL the operator to 500 MWe,750 MWe and 1,000 MWe in stages.