The Kudankulam nuclear power plant is completely safe and designed to withstand all kinds of natural disasters, the Centre told the Supreme Court (SC) today adding various apprehensions over its safety are baseless.
Appearing before a Bench of justices, K S Radhakrishnan and Deepak Misra, Attorney General G E Vahanvati said the Kudankulam plant is absolutely safe beyond all doubts and all the apprehensions are misplaced.
The Bench also asked the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) to give details of safety measures to be placed at different stages before the plant is commissioned.
Vahanvati said the 17 safety measures sought to be placed was not the condition precedent for the operation and commissioning of the plant as other safety measures are good enough to withstand the Fukushima type of Tsunami.
He said the 17 measures were the additional safety measures evolved to be put in place in a phased manner to ensure that the plant is fully safe.
The Attorney General Vahanvati submitted that the anti-nuclear activists were proceeding on wrong assumption that task force was appointed by the government. He said it was appointed by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCL) and approved by the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP).
The reports given by the NPCL are reviewed by the Project Advisory Board which is under the AERB, he said adding that all the recommendations on safety aspect also go through the high level committee appointed by the AERB.
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The Government is highly misleading the Supreme court by giving false information that the Kudankulam nuclear power plant is completely safe and that it is designed to withstand all kinds of natural and man-made disasters. The Centre told the Supreme Court (SC) today adding that various apprehensions over its safety are baseless. Attorney General G E Vahanvati is misleading the Court by saying that the Kudankulam plant is absolutely safe beyond all doubts and all the apprehensions are misplaced. Most of the Nuclear plant promoters do not know that in the wake of Fukushima reactor Explosions in March 2011 Experts studied in depth about safety in nuclear plants and confirmed that nuclear safety is a pure myth and this scientific view of experts was reconfirmed by the heads of countries like Germany and japan,the most technologically advanced counttries in the world and they followed it up by deciding to abandon all the nuclear plants by 2020/2030.For Scientific details see DiaNuke.org
It is height of ignorance to assert that kudankulam nuclear Reactors are absolutely safe.Firstly nuclear safety is confirmed as a Myth by the heads of German and Japanese Governments which have highly intelligent scientific and technical experts who researched and established the fact that nuclear safety is a Myth.The Union and state governments are highly mislead by AERB and DAE whose expert committees are packed with Mechanical and other Engineers who do not qualify to be considered as experts as per sect.45 and 51 of the Indian Evidence Act.Although India is a Member of the International bodies on Nuclear Energy,yet indian Experts are violating the safety standards both under IAEA norms and Environmental protection Act,1986 and bluff that by organising highly unscientific Mock Drills they make self certification that their Mock Drills are successful which amounts to bluffing the public and provide them with risky and false sense of security.For details see web site:DiaNuke.org
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