Chandigarh, Dec 3 (Inditop.com) The proposed nuclear plant in Haryana’s Fatehabad district will be “completely safe”, company officials said Thursday.
“The nuclear power plant would be completely safe,” Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCI) managing director S.K. Jain said after inspecting the project site in Kumahria, Fatehabad, some 300 km from here.
“The other 17 nuclear power plants functioning at different places in the country are also safe and no untoward incident had so far happened.”
Dispelling fears of ill-effects of radiation in the area once the plant was operational, Jain said all sources of energy like coal, fuel, water and sun also emitted radiation and the radiation emitted by sun was two-and-a-half times as powerful as nuclear radiation.
The plant is proposed to be set up in 1,050 acres and would have as many as 700 employees. It would use 50 tonnes uranium per year, he added.
Jain and other top NPCI officials, accompanied by senior Haryana government officials, visited villages Kumahria, Kajalheri and Gorakhpur, where the power plant is proposed to be set up.
NPCI has promised full compensation to those farmers whose land would be acquired for the plant, besides providing employment opportunities on priority basis to the members of these families.
“Education, health and infrastructure facilities would be provided in the villages falling within the radius of 5 km of the plant. The corporation would adopt poor children and provide them education and employment,” Jain said.
“Free books, note books, uniforms and shoes would also be provided to the school going children.”
Technical institutes would also be set up by NPCI in the area and students passing out from these would be provided employment in the plant, the managing director said.
“Mobile dispensary facilities would be provided for villagers and primary health centres would also be set up in villages. Community centres would be constructed in the villages. Trees would be planted in the radius of one km of the plant to keep the environment pollution-free,” Jain added.
The waste from the nuclear power plant, he said, would be processed to produce plutonium, which would be used for electricity generation.
“A high tech laboratory would also be set up in the plant which would inspect the plant periodically and submit its report.”
