Anti-nuclear group People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) will today, on Monday, lay siege to the sea at around five hundred meters away from the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP).

The protest will be joined by local fishermen, farmers, dealers and volunteers of several political parties.

On September 22, the anti-nuclear protesters onboard nearly five hundred boats had laid siege to the Tuticorin port to protest loading of uranium in the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. They had also staged a 'Jal Satyagraha' by forming a human chain, roughly ten km from Kudankulam.

SP Udhayakumar, the face of the anti-Kudankulam pressure group, said that thei protest would be peaceful, and urged the athorities to treat the protesters with respect to value their democratic rights.

Announcing the protest, Udhayakumar said, "We are laying siege against fuel loading. It will be a peaceful, non-violent protest as we have been doing for some time now."

Meanwhile, heavy police security has been deployed on ways leading to the plant to put off any unpleasant situation.

The first unit of the nuclear plant was scheduled to be commissioned in December 2011, but severe protests by locals on safety concerns forced the authorities to delay the commissioning.