nuclear leak November 2009

Posted on | November 29, 2009 | 4 Comments

nuclear leak in Indian power plant

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5AS09220091129

Fifty-five workers at the Kaiga plant needed medical treatment for excessive exposure to radiation after tritium contaminated a water cooler.

Officials said the leak might have been deliberate.

“Mischief is not ruled out. Investigations are on,” plant director J P Gupta told Reuters news agency.

“This incident has in no way affected the public, safety, health and environment.”

The highly protected Kaiga plant is on the west coast of India, 450km (280 miles) from Bangalore.

Tritium, also known as Hydrogen-3, is used in research, fusion reactors and neutron generators.

30 November
update from Hindustantimes.com

Preliminary enquiry does not reveal any violation of operating procedure or radioactive releases or security breach,” said the corporation’s chairman and managing director, SK Jain, adding: “It was an act of mischief.”

“Somebody deliberately put tritiated water vials into a drinking water cooler,” Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar told PTI in Mumbai. “We are investigating who is behind the malevolent act.”

Bangalore:

Bangalore city is now the nerve centre of industrial activity in the state with the presence of several Public Sector Undertakings. The Electronic City in Bommasandra and the Software Technology Park, called the IT Park, which has come up on the outskirts of the city, has earned the reputation of being the “Silicon” Valley of India. Many multinational and Indian companies are represented here. Ranked among the 10 fastest growing cities in the world, Bangalore has many on-going and proposed projects in the industrial and Information Technology sectors. The city has slowly found a place in the country’s history and off recently a place on the world map. Today Bangalore is India’s fifth largest and the fastest growing city in Asia.
http://www.discoverbangalore.com/firstpage.html

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