NPCIL dismisses US geologist's claims on Jaitapur site
PTI | 09:01 PM,Jan 17,2012New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI) India's nuclear operator NPCIL today virtually dismissed claims made by a US-based geologist that the Jaitapur atomic plant site may experience high intensity earthquakes. "NPCIL had approached seismicity in a comprehensive way -- from historical seismic data point-of-view to specifying and building reactors on conservative basis with ample design margins above what is considered possible risk," said Nalinish Nagaich, executive director of NPCIL in a statement. He said the conservative approach used by NPCIL to arrive at the ground motion at Jaitapur very well accommodates even higher impact possible events with comfortable margins. Jaitapur may face a threat of a high intensity earthquake as it lies close to the latitude on which Latur and Koyna in Maharashtra lie, US seismologist Roger Bilham had claimed last week at a press conference in Mumbai organised by Greenpeace. Latur and Koyna have faced strong earthquakes earlier. Bilham and Indian professor V K Gaur had published an opinion piece in Current Science claiming that the probability of an earthquake occurring was low "but it is nevertheless possible, and is an important consideration in the design of a safe power plant." (MORE)
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