Can take a ‘relook’ at Jaitapur environment concerns: Ramesh
March 15th, 2011 - 4:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) The government could take a “relook” at environment concerns related to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for a review of nuclear safety systems in the wake of the earthquake in Japan.
“The prime minister made a detailed statement yesterday asking Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to relook at safety systems. Based on the technical reviews by the NPCIL, we will certainly be in touch with them and if additional safeguards have to be built in as part of the environmental clearance, we will relook at it,” Ramesh told reporters here.
The Atomic Energy Commission Monday allayed fears on the safety of the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (JNPP) project coming up in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, saying it was absolutely “safe” and could even withstand a tsunami of the magnitude experienced by Japan.
The prime minister had assured the country Monday that its atomic power generators were safe.
“The Department of Atomic Energy and its agencies, including the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, have been instructed to undertake an immediate technical review of all safety systems of our nuclear power plants, particularly with a view to ensuring that they would be able to withstand the impact of large disasters such as tsunamis and earthquakes,” Manmohan Singh told the Lok Sabha.
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