Civil defence preparedness drill conducted in Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project
Since the KKNPP is operating 2 X 1,000 MW VVER reactors with Russian assistance and constructing four more reactors with similar capacity, the Central Industrial Security Force deployed there has sanitized the entire campus ever since the work started in 2001. Apart from the CISF, who guard the KKNPP site and its boundaries with neighbouring villages and the shoreline on the southern side, the Union Government has deployed modern ammunition including anti-aircraft weapon systems to neutralise the airborne threats.
As the KKNPP has been categorised as 'high security complex', the civil defense preparedness drill was conducted for 85 minutes since 3.35 p.m. on Friday in the wake of the ongoing conflict with Pakistan to prepare the staff working in the nuclear power plant and the people living around to face any eventuality.
After the 'plant emergency' was sounded at 3.35 p.m., the entire personnel in the KKNPP site were alerted for possible 'release of radiation'. Soon, the 'site emergency' was declared to alert the personnel for taking the precautionary measures stipulated by Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. Every worker were checked for radioactivity material on them by the technicians in specially designed fully covered dress.
'Even though this exercise is conducted at regular intervals on the KKNPP site to refresh the response by the personnel, we organised it today as part of the civil defence preparedness drill,' said the KKNPP sources.
Sources in the intelligence units here said 'due measures' had been put in place at INS Kattabomman in Vijayanarayanam, the low frequency communication network nerve centre for Indian Navy, and its transmission centre on Palayamkottai outskirts and also Indian Space Research Organisation's Propulsion Research Complex at Mahendragiri.
'Both the places are high security complexes and hence these places have been declared as 'no drone zone'. Anyone flying drone in these areas in violation of restriction will be warned severely and even shot at in case of any threat to these installations. So, due measures have been put in place in these places to ensure the safety and security of these complexes and the personnel deployed there,' said the sources.
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