Russia has asked India to shift the site of a nuclear power plant at Haripur in eastern India, for which Russia has constructed two reactors, the Times of India paper reported on Monday.
Russia is concerned that protests over the construction of the plant are becoming political, the paper said. A local opposition party has recently joined local fishermen in protests against a possible rise in the temperature of seawater in the Bay of Bengal.
The concerns have forced the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency, Rosatom, to ask the Department of Atomic Energy of India (DAE) to consider another site for the plant.
The construction of the plant was given environmental clearance in January.
A source in the Indian government said the DAE commission is monitoring the situation.
The Indian government has not commented on the Russian request yet. RIA Novosti
