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India’s coastline at risk from its nuclear power programme

‘N-power plan will turn coastline into disaster zone’ The Times of India,  Apr 4, 2011 NEW DELHI: Former Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) chairman A Gopalakrishnan has raised alarm over the government’s nuclear power programme based on imported reactors, saying it would turn India’s entire coastline into a disaster zone in waiting.

In a statement issued on Sunday, Gopalakrishnan argued that Department of Atomic Energy’s projection of 6,55,000 MW nuclear power generation capacity by 2050 — with additional fast-breeder reactors that would use plutonium from the imported plants — would mean 655 nuclear power reactors each of 1,000 MW capacity.
Gopalakrishnan said, “These would be stringed along a total coastline of about 6,000 km the country has — about 109 six-reactor nuclear parks, spaced along the coast every 55 km apart”.

He said the reactors being imported were new types, which foreigners had no experience of…
‘N-power plan will turn coastline into disaster zone’ – The Times of India

April 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, safety