Apr 11, New Delhi: In a measure to allay Sri Lanka's fears on the Kudankulam nuclear plant in India's Southern coast, India said today that the plant has high safety standards and a legal mechanism to deal with the trans-boundary liability issues.
The Kudankulam plant in the state of Tamil Nadu, just 250 km from Sri Lanka's northwest coastal town of Mannar, will produce 4.5 GW of power making it one of the world's largest nuclear plants.
In the event of a nuclear disaster in a South Indian plant, Sri Lanka would be in the direct path of the impact range and the disaster would wreak havoc in the tiny island as Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority does not possess adequate facilities to face a threat of nuclear accident.
"Sri Lanka has no reason to worry. The safety features of Kudankulam are of high standards, which have been cleared and verified by several independent groups," Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Srikumar Banerjee told Indian media today in New Delhi.
Sri Lanka's Power and Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka recently said that the concerns over the South Indian nuclear plants will be raised when the IAEA sessions are held in September this year.
Banerjee, as said that the Indian Parliament has passed the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill in 2010 to take care of trans-boundary issues in case of nuclear accidents.
A task force of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has comprehensively reviewed the safety features of the Kudankulam Plant in the context of recent Fukushima accident in Japan.
A report by the Indian Department of Atomic Energy says in the Kudankulam reactor design, many advanced safety features are deployed such that any intervention in the public domain outside the plant exclusion zone will not be required even in case of an accident.
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