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| N-plants under review after Kaiga: |
| N-plants under review after Kaiga: Chavan
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| INDIA
, 4-December-2009
2:1:9 AM |
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Processes, procedures and human performance aspects of all nuclear power plants are being reviewed following the radioactive contamination of drinking water at Kaiga Atomic Power Station, Minister of State, PMO, Prithviraj Chavan, said on Thursday.
In a statement, Chavan assured the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha that investigations were on to identify the culprit and interim reports suggested that the contamination of drinking water with heavy water was an insider job. Chavan added this was not a “breach of security” and there was no release of radioactivity to the public.
He said urine samples of over 800 personnel working in the area was analysed of which 92 were found to have tritium content “higher than normal”.
“Immediate medical attention was given to the affected people and the workers are now attending to their normal duties and no one is hospitalised. At this stage two persons are having tritium in their body that can cause their extrapolated annual radiation exposure to marginally exceed the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s specified limit of 30 millisievert per year. However, even in the case of these two persons further medical management will bring down their potential radiation exposure to less than the AERB specified limit within a short time,” he said
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