A smoke alarm in the Kaiga Nuclear Power Generating Station located in coastal district of Uttara Kannada in Karnataka has forced authorities to shut down the third unit of the plant. According to officials in the nuclear plant, after a smoke alarm in a pump house on Saturday evening made officials to shut of the unit as a precautionary measure. Kaiga Station Director JP Gupta told The Pioneer that it was a false alarm and as a precautionary measure they had to shut down the reactor. He said,