http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=57718&cat=India Nuclear plant reopened in Tamil Nadu January 02, 2005 9:09:50 PM IST Chennai, Jan 2 : A nuclear power plant at Kalpakkam near here, shut down following last week's tsunami, was reopened Sunday, officials said. MAPS II, the second nuclear plant at Kalpakkam, about 75 km from here, is a 250MW unit built in 1985. It was shut down early Dec 26 as a precaution after the tsunami battered the Tamil Nadu coast, officials of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India said. The turbulent seawaters entered residential quarters at the Kalpakkam high-security campus and washed away at least 60 people, among them design engineer A Selvaraj. The waters also destroyed two churches and put at risk as many as 500 houses. The death in fishing hamlets on the Kalpakkkam coast exceeds 200. Meanwhile, S. Krishnamurthy took over Friday as station director of Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) at Kalpakkam, replacing T.S. Rajendran, who has retired. Krishnamurthy was the chief superintendent at MAPS for the past two years. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.296 / Virus Database: 265.6.7 - Release Date: 12/30/2004
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