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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | SC judgment on Kudankulam safety violated: Petition

SC judgment on Kudankulam safety violated: Petition

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published Published on Dec 10, 2013   modified Modified on Dec 10, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses of the Centre, Atomic Energy Regulatory Body (AERB) and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) on a petition alleging that the regulatory body gave clearance to Kudankulam nuclear power plant ignoring the court-asserted safety aspects of the plant.

A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and A K Sikri issued notices to the respondents on an appeal filed by G Sundarrajan against a July 29 judgment of the Madras High Court, which had dismissed his petition seeking full compliance of safety measures as directed by the apex court's May 6 judgment.

The petitioner, through advocate Prashant Bhushan, said the AERB, while reviewing the quality of components and safety of the system, had failed to obtain from NPCIL the final design report, commissioning reports and results, proposed operating and operational limits and conditions, and that the plant could be operated without undue risk to the operating personnel and the population residing around it.

Bringing up the nuclear liability issue once again, the petitioner said "limiting the financial liability or by indemnifying the supplier completely, the government is facilitating an environment where suppliers would prefer to invest and develop cheaper nuclear reactor rather than safer reactors, thus putting lives and health of millions of people at risk".

"The fact that the liability cap (Rs 1,500 crore) is much less compared to cost of a reactor, which is Rs 30,000 crore or more, means that cost of installing basic safety features on the reactor may exceed maximum liability amount," it said.

"In the case of Fukushima, the liability had exceeded $18 billion and its quantum has been increasing every day. Against this backdrop, a low liability cap provides a huge incentive to the supplier to take risks with issues of safety," it said, alleging use of sub-standard equipment and improper instrumentation issues in the Kudamkulam plant.

The petitioner said the HC erred in not appreciating the criticality of the issue: that authorities did not comply with the apex court's direction for fulfilling conditions of environmental clearances before granting clearance for first approach to criticality of the Kudamkulam reactor.


The Times of India, 10 December, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/SC-judgment-on-Kudankulam-safety-violated-Petition/articleshow/27144699.cms


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