Residents and environmentalists raised their anger over reports that the central government had proposed to dump radioactive waste from the neighboring Tamil Nadu State’s Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP).
However, Former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman MR Sreenivasan denied the reports saying that the information was misleading.
"We store spent nuclear fuel quite safely in reactor site itself in what is known as spent fuel storage base. In some places, like Tarapur, we have also got ‘away from reactor’ storage," Sreenivasan said.
"Now this is a disused mine where the mining activity has been completed some time ago.
"Such mines are available. There is no intention in India to consider Kolar as one of the sites. But we are looking at options of other disused mines available and studying geology, ground water movement etc." added Sreenivasan.
People from Tirunelveli district, where KNPP is situated, have previously held protests to prevent a proposed Indo-Russian nuclear power project, reported India Today.
