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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Reactors for Jaitapur have been tested: AEC ex-chief by Srinivas Laxman

Reactors for Jaitapur have been tested: AEC ex-chief by Srinivas Laxman

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published Published on Jul 13, 2011   modified Modified on Jul 13, 2011
MUMBAI: Former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Anil Kakodkar has stated that the French-made Areva European pressurized reactors, which India plans to import for the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Ratnagiri district, were tested. "It is wrong to say that they were untested reactors. They are based on previous reactor experience," he asserted, while pointing out that other countries were constructing similar reactors.

He was addressing nearly 400 students and teachers from 30 Mumbai colleges at the R D National College on Saturday. The programme was organized by the National College and W A Science College, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Vijnana Bharati.

It was almost the first attempt by the DAE to reach out to Mumbai students.

"India is an intelligent buyer and nobody can dump untested reactors on us," Kakodkar told the students. His remark assumes significance in the context of opposition to the Jaitapur project by anti-nuclear activists and locals. Efforts by the DAE and Nuclear Power Corporation to convince them about the safety levels of these reactors have failed to make headway.

He said constructing many reactors in one place has economical and operational advantages. "The only thing is that an accident in one reactor should not propagate to another reactor," he stated.

Kakodkar, who was a key negotiator when the Indo-US nuclear deal was being firmed up, urged the students to shed their 'foreign complex' and added that Indian reactors have set the benchmark for foreign ones, which India will import under the deal with the Americans.

The students applauded when he remarked that India should be proud of this. The benchmark, he said, was being set in terms of price competitiveness, robustness and safety.

"The imported reactors have to produce electricity at competitive rates," he said. Kakodkar said India had to sign the Indo-US deal as we have plenty of thorium, but not adequate uranium to fuel the reactors.

"Uranium could not have been imported unless we signed the Indo-US nuke deal," he said.


The Times of India, 13 July, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Reactors-for-Jaitapur-have-been-tested-AEC-ex-chief/articleshow/9205309.cms


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