Indian nuke plants may step up safety measures

At the same time, new technologies would be introduced to ensure initiation of automatic shut down of the reactors on sensing seismic activity. Additional shore protection measures would be taken at the Madras and Tarapur power stations located on the cost.

Not only the water inventory at N-power stations would be increased but additional hook-up points to fetch more water would be created for spent fuel pools for six older generation reactors – first and second units at Tarapur, Rajasthan and Madras power stations.

These are the outcomes of the safety review, which Nuclear Power Corporation of India undertook after Fukushima at the behest of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Reinforcements were brought in TAPS-1&2 because they are boiling water reactors; in RAPS 1&2 because they were the first pressurised heavy water reactors and MAPS 1&2 because they were the first indigenous PHWR. After MAPS, we standardised the PHWR designs. But that does not mean these reactors are short in their safety features,” Nilimesh Nagaiach, executive director at NPCIL told Deccan Herald.