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Kaiga incident is not a nuclear leak: Prithviraj Chavan | Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Singh Chavan said here on Sunday that the Kaiga incident is not a nuclear leak and assured that all nuclear plants in India are safe. Briefing the media here,
Chavan said: “The Kaiga incident is an act by a disgruntled employee. He mixed
a small unit of heavy water (D20) in a water cooler. And all those who drank
water from that particular water cooler were tested a little high level of radiation
effects.” He said, he had discussions with Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil
Kakodkar and assured that “it is not an incident of nuclear leakage.” Chavan also
said the government will take the incident very seriously and a high level inquiry
will be initiated. “Prima-facie, it looks like an employee did it just to grab
media attention and register a protest against the management. But we will initiate
a high level inquiry,” Chavan said. Commenting over the Kaiga plant facing repeated
threats, Chavan said: “It was a purely an act by a person who is accessed to the
plant, but we will investigate influence of other elements on the employees.”
The Nuclear Power Corporation has initiated an internal inquiry into the incident.
Senior scientists are conducting tests in and around the Kaiga township, to ascertain
the effect of radiation. |
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