Surely it can but not to the same scale. But it is worth the risk. What are your other choices ? Exponentially increasing population needs jobs. Without electric power (read nuclear), it is not going to happen. Either go nuclear or go to stone age! India does not seem to have precursors to the degree what Japan had to face. It was a multi-event tragedy. How many times in history has human faced multi-event tragedy? I cannot think of one. Loss of external power from the grid (other operating plants) was the worse that could have happened. All instrumentation may have gone dead because of loss of external power. That means you without your eyes now. Imagine your car dashboard going dark along with head lights when you are doing 100 miles an hour and your brakes don't work. Learn from this tragedy and move on. To design, construct and operate nuclear power plants, follow US standards (NRC, IEEE and EPRI) and you'll not go wrong. Lot of money has been invested in developing these standards. You are getting them free.
Why are the news agencys not asking where all the water is going that is being pumped into the Fukishima reactors.In order to cool a Reactor without a heat exchanger water that goes in must come out carrying the heat and go somewhere.It is pretty obvious that it is going back to the ocean.They new this from day one.If the containment was intact they would be continuously venting steam from the pressure vessle.
In spite of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear disastrous, not all the countries have abonded the plans of having nuclear bombs. War is also catastrophe, which can start at any time. World organisations like UNO tries to prevent the war. But things still go wrong. There is term justification risks vs benefits. I think each coin has two faces. let us be positive. Do not criticise too much writing these article. Patients often go for CT scan inspite of radiation effects.This is well known fact. While going from delhi to new york, one gets radiation exposure, but no one stops flying. Please do not keep writing these sort of articles. If there is fire in refinery, no one stops driving his bike.
So voyage is made with courage. In Jaitapur Nuclear plant, no one is putting radioactive plant without any protection.............Be positive
Re: Inspect risk vs benefits...Do not demoralize making good effo
by Prashanth Talla on Mar 20, 2011 09:39 PM
You said it right, everything has two sides. But what we are missing in india is safety. What kind of safety measures we took to contain the nuclear disasters? Our Tarapur nuclear plant design was done by USA's GE in 1960's I believe. Later the same technology was used in building the Japan's plant's that exploded now causing radioactive exposure. Germany, Swiss, China all have either shutdown their Nuclear plants that were built prior to 1980 and started taking preventive measures. But our Congi govt, instead of taking similar measures, they are in the process of marketing them as absolutely safe. How do you respond?
Re: Inspect risk vs benefits...Do not demoralize making good effo
by Suraj Kumar on Mar 21, 2011 06:57 PM
Buddy people of jaitapur is not opposing nuclear energy, but they are opposing the way in which their livelihood is taken, no one can call it democratically.Secondly critics are opposing the company to which these plant has been contracted, that company is blacklisted even in europe.Jaitapur lies in zone 3 so in case of disaster there is a chance of small destruction for nuclear plant but huge catastrophe for western ghats and konkan area.
This can never ever happen in India. India has the best technology in the world. India has such world reknowed engineers like Digvijay Singh, Kapil Sibal, ex Arjun Singh, and many more, how can it happen in India. And on top of all, our greatest liar, cheater, thief PM, MMS has said very clearly that all nuclear facilities in India are safe. So dear country men, dont worry. Be happy. We are safe. Dont feel that if Congi's make billions out of nuclear deals, they are unsafe.
Re: Nuclear Meltdown
by D S on Mar 20, 2011 05:52 PM
true, worse CAN HAPPEN in india, world will help, look at 26/11, etc. TOO MANY BEGGARs in asia to do the dirty job.
have solar energy(the latest PV are not sold in market due to oil company monopoly), look at arizona/etc.
the nuclear material can be used for security if fusion bomb cannot be made.
while china is onto the space age weapons. Indian can talk some sense with pakistan and china to use the head (and not balls) on having joint forces. Indians can at-least have 100,000 stealth nuclear ICBMs and CBMs that will suffice to render conventional weapons NOT being the decisive weapon. And good stealth CBMs (and near range stealth missiles ) to hunt down aircraft, ship, tanks and submarines will make/render conventional weapons useless.
Oh !!!,Indian's should shudder to think of such an eventuality, considering the state of readiness to face such apocalaptic disaster and poor disaster management infrastructure inplace except on paper.
Even today after more than 25 Years, the Bhopalites and country has not got over the Bhopal gas Tragedy, and the poor handling by then the congress govt in the state and centre and SC under CJ Mr. Ahmadi not covering himself with any glory with his connivance with UCIL and deny justice to victime of Bhopal gas Tragedy and Mr. Anderson roaming freely in US and Congress led UPA-2 only making some noises on enhance compensation on TV channels.
Why were robots, autonomous machines or vehicles not used post catastrophe for access to near Fukushima reactors to conduct surveillance? Such a thing, if possible or planned by design, would perhaps give a better picture of what exactly is happenning on-site. That might help pouring in the water with greater effectiveness or any other appropriate measures to be taken. Leaving aside the question of FUTURE reactors, the need of the hour is perhaps to augment all the EXISTING reactors WORLD OVER with utmost possible safety measures (fail-safe automatic & total shutdown, design of autonomous robots/machines for intervention & monitoring in the event of a problem). After this homework one has to work out the ACTUAL cost of a nuclear plant to see if it is commercially viable!!!
It is all very well to sit and write critical things. Does he want our nuclear bosses to have pressed the panic button as soon as the crisis started in Japan? It would have looked foolish and an attempt to whip up hysteria. Such things are simply not done. The Japanese were tightlipped intially and assured everyone that things were under control and they were the ones on the ground.
What does Bidwai know about nuclear reactors anyway, except for the stuff he has gleaned from the Net? He is nothing but a professional fault finder best ignored.
we are making safe and safer reactors, there is nothing to panic about radioactive release. from the earth crust everybody is getting around 0.08micro sivert per hour of radiation dose continuously. problem occurs when dose limit crosses the thrush hold limit, to limit radioactive release to environment safety systems are provided. More over Indian government is spending 2/3 of the reactor construction cost on redundant SAFETY SYSTEMS. Every Nuclear power plant is having emergency procedure to tackle such conditions.
Re: ALL INDIAN REACTORS ARE SAFE
by Brijesh Tamber on Mar 19, 2011 04:12 PM
to be honest we and our scientists included are not even 10 % of Japnese. If they couldn't handle it do you think we can??? ( It may sound racist but a fact is a fact)
