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Mystery shrouds fire mishap at Indian nuclear centre at Trombay | Sreekumar Banerjee, Director of Centre and Chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) has said a panel of experts is still probing the cause of last week's fire mishap in a chemical laboratory in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) at Trombay in Mumbai in which two research students were burnt to death. Talking to reporters here on Monday, Banerjee said: "There were
two spectrometers and some preparatory chemicals but there was not such a large
inventory of chemicals. There was no cylinder, no hydrogen cylinder or any such
inflammable that we say immediately that this is the cause of the fire. But we
have a very strong group of specialists who are looking into it and examining
different remains of that place and trying to work out that is it possible to
build a scientific explanation that how that fire got introduced." Banerjee also
said security has been reviewed at nuclear facilities across the country, though
there were adequate safeguards. "We have such a tight security that our own employees
don't enter there. So this is the basic philosophy of our security layers and
that is there plus we need because our own security is there but this has been
augmented very much on the basis of some of these threats that has come," he said.
On India's plans for nuclear energy, Banerjee said two more reactors would come
up at Kudankulam nuclear power plant, being built with Russian aid in Tamil Nadu.
He also said that one unit of Kudankulam would become critical by the middle of
this year. |
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