The former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, M.R. Srinivasan, on Friday said it would be inadvisable to scrap the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu.
“The protests against the project are founded on rumours maligning the project,” he said.
All aspects of safety had been looked into by the Atomic Energy Department, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. and Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and added that that it was unlikely to be affected by a tsunami like the manner in which the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan was.
“The Fukushima plant was a first generation power plant, while the Kudankulam power plant is the third generation reactor.”
Dr. Srinivasan made these observations after inaugurating the National Summit on Quality Education organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) here.
Nuclear power is very impotent now a days, because to meet the future electricity demand in India as well as avoid global warming. at present, all nuclear power plants in India are safe and the safety systems are available to meet any kind of accidents.
Nuclear is not needed in india before using free solar heat and light and before making our buildings solar passive.India is being hit by our ad hoc populist yet self defeating energy subsidy which reached mind blasting Rs 1000 crore a day sometime back and our by wrong energy use pattern. Highly overpriced petrol being left only unsubsidized petro product is killing transport sector. We Indians are using fatally costly imported oil and all important electricity and are not using free infinite solar heat and light. We are providing free electricity to farmers without forcing them to harvest free and infinite rain water even on one percent of their land holding and without regulating their crops according to water availability. We are absurdly selling costly and imported LPG and kerosene at mineral water prices even though solar is their free and infinite substitute. My solar cooker is cooking free of cooking cost and time. Indigenous electricity is cheaper than even subsidized LPG.
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