We expect to start construction on Kudankulam III by end of this year or early 2010, said Sudhinder.
Sudhinder said that NPCIL will receive the techno-commercial proposal for Kudankulam III by mid 2009.
The agreement to construct four additional reactors at Kudankulam was signed during a recent visit of Atomic Energy Commission, chairman Anil Kakodkar to Russia.
The unit I and II at Kudankulam are at an superior stage of completion and are estimated to be commissioned 2009.
Russia is constructing two 1,000 VVER reactors for the Kudankulam nuclear power plant and during Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president visit to New Delhi in December 2008, the India and Russia have agreed to construct four more units.
The other official involved with the Kudankulam project said that NPCIL was evaluating a new design of VVER-type reactors of 1,200 MW capacity.
