At the Kudankulam nuclear power plant complex in the tirunelveli district, two 1,000-MW reactors are in operation. Four more nuclear reactors are being built by the National Atomic Energy Corporation. In this regard, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of india (ACCI) approved the selection of a site for storing waste from these reactors within the nuclear power plant premises on august 23.
The order didn't say if the nuclear waste storage facility would be permanent or temporary. Environmentalists, on the other hand, are afraid that the centre, which will be built inside a nuclear reactor complex, will be used to store radioactive waste indefinitely. The waste generated by the two reactors now in operation at the Koodankulam reactor is kept beneath the reactor. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of india has decided to establish a waste storage centre on the grounds.
The tamil Nadu pollution Control Board has indicated that a meeting to discuss the establishment of an AFR centre to store waste from the first two reactors outside the reactor would be conducted on July 10, 2019. However, protests from the public in areas such as Kudankulam and Idinthakarai, as well as political parties in tamil Nadu, forced the conference to be postponed indefinitely.
Does this condition raise concerns that all of Koodankulam's garbage will be permanently kept within the site? Is a Deep Geological Repository going to be established?
In this context, the subject of whether india would establish a deep-sea waste centre and what would happen to nuclear waste was raised in Parliament. In reality, india does not require a deep-sea waste disposal facility. The nuclear waste produced by India's nuclear reactor technology is quite minimal. The amount of waste produced by their extraction and incineration is minimal.
