Chennai, Jan 7 Power generation at the second 1,000 MW unit at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Station (KNPS) was stopped due to technical problems.
According to Power System Operation Corporation Ltd, due to loss of power supply to control rods in the second 1,000 MW unit at KNPS belonging to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), power generation was stopped on Thursday.
On Thursday, the unit had generated 415 MW before the outage.
It is not known when the shutdown unit will restart generation.
Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor