Koodankulam: Official Experts Have Misled People on Nuclear Safety by DiaNuke.org

Since official expert committees dealt with only reactor safety and not public safety aspects, activists must demand for non-technical public safety reports and not for technical reactor safety reports.

ABSTRACT:

Prof. T. Shivaji Rao

Prof.T.Shivaji Rao is the Director of Center for Environmental Studies,GITAM University, Visakhapatnam (India)

Presently there is a controversy about the supply of Kudankulam nuclear safety reports to the anti-nuclear activists under the Right to Information Act the Nuclear Power Corporation refuses to obey the orders of Chief Information Commissioner to supply to the public the site evaluation report and nuclear plant safety report to the public under the pretext that it belongs to a third party namely, the Russian nuclear plant suppliers. The activists are worried because there are several reports on the working of many Soviet reactors in a very unsafe manner. Consequently the doubts about the safety of Kudankulam are genuine. Hence the activists must provided with the public safety aspects of the Kudankulam reactors by providing the people with the reactor explosion scenario source terms, atmospheric dispersion of radioactivity and demarcation of the exclusion zone, sterilized zone, emergency zone and the off-site disaster management zone along with concentrations of radioactivity expected at the ground level in these zones. First of all the people are evacuated due to a reactor accident up to a radius of 30km in Japan and some European countries and Americans are evacuated in Japan due to Fukushima explosion upto 80km from the accident site but Indian Standards are very vague as they may evacuate people due to an accident upto maximum of 5kms from the reactor as per the AERB guidelines while International guidelines by IAEA stipulate evacuation of people upto 25km and treat emergency zone upto 300kms. It means that the Tamilnadu Chief Minister and the Prime Minister of India are treating the people living in the off-site disaster management zone as people who can be sacrificed by poisoning and slowly killing them as practiced by Hitler during the second world war by using the gas chambers which represent the present day Kudankulam nuclear reactors. Hence people must study these problems of life and death and take necessary timely action by remembering that even God canot help those who refuse to help themselves Even though Article 51A(g) of the constitution demands people to discharge their duties under the constitution. (See)