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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Japan-like scenario unlikely here, scientists tell Manmohan by Smita Gupta

Japan-like scenario unlikely here, scientists tell Manmohan by Smita Gupta

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published Published on Mar 17, 2011   modified Modified on Mar 17, 2011

“Our plants' design, method of storing spent fuel are different”

Evolving situation; scientists will come back with more conclusive answers: Shivshankar Menon

More safeguards needed as part of environmental clearance at Jaitapur: Jairam Ramesh

Top officials of the nuclear establishment on Wednesday assured Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that a nuclear catastrophe similar to the one that is devastating Japan is most unlikely to happen here.

National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon said the officials noted at a meeting with the Prime Minister on Wednesday that the design of India's nuclear plants were different, as was its method of storing spent fuel.

Secretary Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Srikumar Banerjee and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Chairman S.S. Bajaj briefed Dr. Singh about the technical review of the nuclear installations in the country, including, most importantly the safety aspect.

However, Mr. Menon, who was interacting with journalists at the Indian Women's Press Corps here, added a cautionary note, stressing that it was an “evolving situation” and that the Indian scientists, who were asked what lessons could be learned from the Japanese experience, had said that they would continue closely studying the situation in Japan through a detailed review of the safety factors and come back with more “conclusive answers” later.

They were hoping to learn from it to further strengthen India's nuclear safety measures, Mr. Menon said.

Dr. Singh's meeting with the scientists comes two days after he announced in Parliament that he had ordered an immediate technical review of all safety systems of the country's nuclear plants by the DAE and its agencies, including the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL), “particularly with a view to ensuring that they would be able to withstand the impact of large natural disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes.”

Meanwhile, in the context of fresh fears about the proposed nuclear plant in Maharashtra's Jaitapur, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said: “The NPCIL is relooking at its safety systems, relooking at the design. This appropriately is a subject that has to be dealt with by the AERB, and based on the technical reviews that the NPCIL does, additional safeguards will have to be built in as part of the environmental clearance.”

Mr. Ramesh was speaking at a function organised by the World Wildlife Fund here on Wednesday.

Of India's 20 nuclear power reactors, 18 are indigenous Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors. Two reactors at Tarapur, TAPS-1and TAPS-2, are Boiling Water Reactors of the type being operated in Japan.

The Hindu, 17 March, 2011, http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/17/stories/2011031765741200.htm


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