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Safety,
livelihood of locals, focus of meeting on Jaitapur n-project
Tuesday April 26, 2011 08:43:33 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Addressing growing concerns on nuclear safety was the focus as
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh convened a high-level meeting
Tuesday to review the current status of the nuclear power projecct
at Jaitapur in Maharashtra.
The key decisions taken after the meeting, attended by Maharashtra
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Environment Minister Jairam
Ramesh, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V.
Narayanasamy, Atomic Energy Commission chief Srikumar Banerjee and
senior bureaucrats are:
* The government will introduce a bill in the next session of
parliament to create an independent and autonomous Nuclear
Regulatory Authority of India that will subsume the Atomic Energy
Regulatory Board (AERB).
* The initial results of the six safety review committees set up
by the Indian government after the Fukushima accident in Japan
will be made public. Action taken on previous safety reviews will
be put in the pubic domain.
* The best available expertise will be tapped to ensure the
highest levels of safety. The government will invite the
Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) to assist in its own safety reviews and
audit.
* Each reactor in Jaitapur will have its own stand-alone safety
and operation systems.
* All reactors and technologies, whether indigenous or imported,
will without exception meet the safety standards that are
stipulated by the regulatory authorities and there will be
complete transparency in the functioning of the nuclear power
programme.
During the meeting, the prime minister was assured that "all
efforts will be made to engage local communities and address their
fears and concerns in a credible manner and that livelihoods of
local fishermen and their families must continue to get the
highest priority by the state government and the Nuclear Power
Corportation of India Limited".
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