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PTI | 11:02 PM,Feb 08,2012The talks on signing a commercial agreement between NPCIL The talks on signing a commercial agreement between NPCIL and French company Areva had been stalled after the Fukushima nuclear accident. Asked about the resistance from the locals to the project, Bigot said the Indian government was doing its best to address people's concerns and felt talking to them is the best solution. "If you have no clear support of the majority of local people, there is no way to operate such a reactor. So the recommendations is that for full agreement...go to the local people, let them ask any question they have and to the best of your knowledge and with full sincerity make the right answer," he said. He said safety was the key issue when he met Banerjee earlier today and shared the review report with him. When his attention was drawn to Germany which was developing cold feat over nuclear power especially after the Fukushima nuclear accident, he said the German move was more "political" in nature as a committee which reviewed their plants had said there was no specific nuclear safety concerns in the country. Bigot expressed hope that the commercial agreement for setting up of the plant in Jaitapur would be done by this year and the ground breaking next year. "We are on the road to reach the agreement," he said. Talking about the safety assessment report, he said it has proposed a 'nuclear rapid response force'. This will be a national emergency force made up of specialised teams equipped to intervene in less than 24 hours on a nuclear site hit by an accident.
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