India sets up five nuclear energy parks of 10,000 MW each

Minister of State for Prime Ministerss Office V Narayanasamy said that these nuclear parks were being established in Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh, Haripur in West Bengal, Jaitapur in Maharashtra and Chhaya Mithi Virdi in Gujarat.Environmental impact of nuclear power stations was continuously being monitored, he added. For plants located at coastal sites viz Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu and Tarapur in Maharashtra thermal ecology and bio-diversity of marine environment were also being monitored and there had been no evidence of any adverse effect on environment of these coastal locations due to operation of nuclear plants, the Minister said.