Public Awareness e-Newsletter

Public Awareness e-Newsletter
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project
December 2013
Issue – 18
Dear colleagues,
In this issue:
The year 2013 has been a memorable year for
KKNPP as unit-1 attained criticality and
synchronisation. Public outreach activities in 2013
have been commendable. There have been visitors
to the plant almost every day. The role of PA
committee in creating awareness and clarifying
their apprehensions has been appreciated by one
and all. Wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014.
The year 2013 has been a
turnaround year for KKNPP.
KKNPP#l has achieved its
- Public voice
first criticality on 13'n July
- Technical session
2013
and
subsequently
- PA activity during the
synchronized to the grid on
Chairman,
PA
Committee
22nd October 2013. The unit
month
has achieved its 50% of power
- Feature article: Question &
Public Voice
operation and has so far
Answer by
The education enlightened to us by KKNPP generated 365 Million Units of
Dr. M.R. Srinivasan
staff regarding functional aspects and safety & electricity.
- Nuclear Trivia
security measures undertaken by your
esteemed
organization,
was
simply
immaculate and well conceived by us.
At the end we assure you sir, that we have
pledge to support the messages of above to
the people whom-ever we come across in
order to allay their fear of safety & security of
KKNPP and its necessity.
Chellam A
Secretary, LIC Ex-servicemen Employees Welfare
Association, Madurai.
Convinced and recognized that nuclear power
is safe, need of the hour and not harming the
surrounding environment.
A glimpse of 3 chicks
of Red-vented Bulbul
getting ready for
fledging at the front yard of TLD
Lab, KKNPP
Got awareness that KKNPP has many safety
features, even first of its kind in the world and
hence in the event of any natural calamity,
KKNPP can safely shutdown its process.
The cooperation, support and
motivation from all KKNPP
employees, officers, have paved
the way for us to confirm that
Nuclear Power is a viable and
clean option.
Let us reorient ourselves with a
new set of goals and objectives,
which can be achieved with
renewed vigour and wishing
you all a very Happy and
Prosperous New Year 2014.
Subramanian, Professor & Head
Dept of Chemistry, Manonmaniam Sundaranar
University, Tirunelveli
(From the Feedback form submitted by visitors after the field visit)
R.S.Sundar
Site Director, KK Site
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Technical session - VVER Technology
REACTOR PRESSER VESSEL :
NPCIL Mission:
To develop nuclear power
technology and to produce
Nuclear Power as a safe,
environmentally benign and
economically viable source of
electrical energy to meet the
increasing needs of country.
“Nuclear is the only form
of base power that
releases no greenhouse
gases
while
it’s
producing power,”
"It’s 19 percent of our
overall energy mix, but
almost 70 percent of our
clean energy. We’re not
going to replace that
overnight. Renewables
are great, but they’re not
base power."
The reactor vessel is designed to contain the
vessel internals and fuel assemblies of the core.
The reactor along with control rod drive units
has overall height of 19 meters and diameter of
4.5 meters. It is a vertical cylindrical container
made of 190 mm thick high purity low alloy
steel ring forgings welded together and cladded
inside with austenitic stainless steel, with a
detachable top cover and sealing elements. The
upper part of reactor vessel has two rows of
nozzles, four numbers in each row, which are
coolant inlet and outlet of the pressure vessel.
There are also four nozzles, two each on each
of the above rows , which are directly connected
to accumulators of emergency core cooling
system. The reactor vessel houses core barrel
which in-turn houses all core components
including fuel assembly. The core barrel has
perforations at bottom, which allow circulating
water to enter reactor core and perforations at
top for exit of hot water from core. All core
components are made of austenitic stainless
steel.
PA activity conducted at KKNPP Site:
As a part of Public Awareness programme, Students and staff of Schools
and Colleges and public of Tirunelveli, Tutucorin and Kanyakumari
districts visited KKNPP. They were familiarized with the nuclear power
plant and Safety features of KKNPP in particular reference to the events
at Fukhushima (Japan) and radiation safety during normal and
abnormal operation of Nuclear power plant.
No.of Publications distributed
Christine Todd Whitman,
Former Governor of New
Jersey & Environmental
Protection Agency
Administrator
5
School
7
Public
14
No.of PA programme
4180
418
Science college
7660
766
8190
819
Polytechnic College
112
1
Engineering college
4
0
No.of participants
1120
2770
277
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
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Few glimpses from programme conducted at KKNPP:
Bishop and clergyman of C.S.I. Tirunelveli Diocesan at KKNPP
on Dec 05, 2013
Introductory
lecture
at
KKNPP auditorium for the
Rani Anna College for
Women, Pettai, Tirunelveli.
General public from Christian
Service Society, Panchipara
Kerala are briefed prior to
field visit (Reactor Building-2).
Students
of
Thiyagaraja
College
of
Engineering,
Madurai are briefed about the
layout of KKNPP.
Public awareness outreach programme conducted outside KKNPP:
No. of
participants
No. of
Publications
distributed
28th Indian Engineering Congress Dec 20-22,
at Chennai
2013
1200
10000
Total
1200
10000
Institution/Workshop/Seminar
A glimpse of general public
from Udhayathur village,
Tirunelveli during field visit
at Reactor building-2.
Date
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Few glimpses from programme conducted outside KKNPP:
PA Exhibition was organised
at 28th Indian Engineering
Congress, Chennai during
Dec 20-22, 2013
Site visit was organized for residents
PA Exhibition at 28th Indian Engineering Congress, Chennai
December 20-22, 2013
of Anuvijay township. A total of 559
'The Indian
Engineering
persons
visited KKNPP
through five
batches.
Congress', organized by
the Institution of Engineers
Batch-5
(India)
is
an
annual
PA programme at
Dhanakarkulam village,
Sep 12, 2013
convention. This year, the
28th
Indian
Congress
Engineering
was
held
at
Hotel Leela Palace, MRC
PA programme at Vattavilai
village, Sep 19, 2013
Nagar, Chennai. It was
Batch-6
inaugurated by President
Pranab Mukherjee on 20th
December.
About 1200 persons visited
the KKNPP stall and about
PA programme at
Pallavilai- Koliyankulam
village, Sep 27, 2013
10000 publications were
Batch-7
distributed.
PA campaign at Educational Institutions.
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Feature article: Q&A from Dr.M.R.Srinivasan,
Ex Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission
Did you know?
The Nobel Prize in Physics
1903.
Henri
Becquerel,
Curie, Marie Curie
Q:
fishing?
Pierre
Prize
motivation:
"in
recognition
of
the
extraordinary services they
have rendered by their joint
researches on the radiation
phenomena discovered by
Professor Henri Becquerel"
What are the problems faced by people engaged in
A:
The traditional fisherman’s prosperity is affected by a
number of factors. First is the intensive use of trawlers and
other sophisticated fishing methods.
Second is the
poaching of fish from India’s exclusive economic zone by
fishing trawlers from other countries.
This happens
because of the inability of the Indian Coast Guard to patrol
our seas. Effluents from chemical industry, untreated
sewage and agrochemicals being washed into the sea are
all causes resulting in reduced fish catches. These factors
are very serious and need to be addressed urgently.
Marie Curie
Born: 7 November 1867,
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(now Poland)
Died: 4 July 1934,
Sallanches, France
Field: nuclear physics
Source: Nobelprize.org
Kudankulam Nuclear Plant is not putting out any effluent
that might harm fish life.
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Nuclear Trivia
What is unique to Fiesta dinnerware?
These are Radioactive pottery and glassware.
Prepared & Edited by:
K.B.Jashi, OIC, TLD Lab
kbjashi@kknpp.com
Reviewed by:
Collections of multi-colored Fiesta dinnerware are
also very pleasing to the eye. Fiesta dishes have been
made by the Homer Laughlin Pottery Company since
1936. The red color was achieved by adding
uranium oxide in the glaze - measurements have
indicated that by weight, up to 14 % of the glaze
The Fiesta red plate in the might be uranium. How much glaze was employed
above photo was made
per plate is unclear but it has been estimated that a
from depleted uranium
single plate contains 4.5 grams of uranium
P.Pandaram,
Member Secretary,
PA Committee
ppandaram@kknpp.com
S.Kalirajan
Chairaman, PA Committee
skalirajan@kknpp.com
Issued by:
R.S.Sundar
Site Director, KKNPP
Fiesta ivory plate above
was made from natural
uranium.
Since this uranium could be used in the production of
an atomic bomb, Fiesta red became a victim of
World War II when the US government confiscated
the company’s stocks of uranium. Fiesta red
disappeared until 1959 when production resumed,
this time using depleted uranium (DU) rather than
the original natural uranium. The Fiesta red plate in
the above photo was made from depleted uranium
while the ivory plate was made from natural
uranium.
Homer Laughlin stopped all use of depleted uranium
oxide in 1972 and it is not used in Fiesta Dinnerware
which is produced today.
Fiesta Ware
Contact details:
Source:
www.orau.org
www.apartmenttherapy.com &
Wikipedia
Chairman,
Public Awareness Committee
Kudankulam-627106
Phone: (04637) 282306
Fax: (04637) 259754
E-Mail: pa.awareness@kknpp.com
Public Awareness Committee
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project