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No worries! India’s government says it can handle Fukushima type disaster

Kudankulam can handle Fukushima type disaster: NPCIL tells SC First Post India 27 sept 12, New Delhi: The Supreme Court was Thursday told that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tamil Nadu was absolutely safe and fully equipped to deal even with Fukushima type of accident.

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) told the apex court bench of Justice KS Radhakrishnan and Justice Dipak Misra that KNPP was “absolutely safe” even without the 17 recommendations by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), which were being put in place out of abundant caution….. Pointing to the rarity of such incidents at nuclear power plants, the NPCIL said that there had been only three major nuclear plants accidents that includes 1979 Three Mile Island accident, 1985 Chernobyl disaster and 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster…. http://www.firstpost.com/india/kudankulam-can-handle-fukushima-type-disaster-npcil-tells-sc-471173.html

September 29, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, secrets,lies and civil liberties