All n-plants in India pass stress test: AEC

18 Oct 2011

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New Delhi: In an endorsement of the safety parameters of the country's nuclear programme, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) said all the atomic power plants had "passed" the stress tests ordered by prime minister Manmohan Singh in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

The AEC is the country's premier nuclear establishment.

"Indian reactors have passed the stress tests ordered after Fukushima," Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Srikumar Banerjee, said Monday.

The stress tests, which are a combination of simulated quake events on the design of a nuclear plant, were ordered by way of addressing safety issues in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear accident in March this year.

Seeking to allay apprehensions on the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu, Banerjee also said the Indo-Russian joint venture was the safest unit of its type built anywhere in the world.

Meanwhile, minister of state in the prime minister's office, V Narayanasamy, has said that the government will not rethink its nuclear policy, much less shelve it. His comments come in the backdrop of protests over a new plant in the state of Tamil Nadu.

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