Mumbai: Joining issue with an ex-DRDO scientist
that Pokhran-II was not a full success and India needs to go
for a few more nuclear tests, Atomic Energy commission chief
Anil Kakodkar on Wednesday said the country has strong simulation
capability and that additional tests were not required.
"We have enough data. We have comprehensive simulation
capability and therefore there is no need for any more tests,"
Kakodkar said here days after K Santhanam ignited a
controversy that Pokhran-II was a fizzle and did not give the
desired yield. "We are very confident about the simulation
capability."
Indian nuclear scientists had already validated and bench
marked the validated tool of the three dimensional simulation
for earth motion and displacement data collected following
Pokhran II tests in 1998, he said.
"We used the data of Beneberry nuclear tests of US of
December 18,1970 to validate our 3-D simulation for earth
motion and displacement and this validated tool was used for
bench marking," Kakodkar said.
There is no need for series of tests to validate the
yield since the tool and also observations are available, he
said adding that it was published in the international journal
Nuclear Technology in 2006 four years after its communication
from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).
Scaling up of nuetronic calculation can always be done,
he said adding that all the observations and calculations were
done by scientists from BARC.
Kakodkar said, BARC scientists have done the measurements
meticulously and large number of diverse instrumentations were
used using four independent measurements -- seismic, large
teleseismic, accurate measurements at Gauribidinur seismic
measurement site; radiochemical samples estimation done by
different groups; specific evidence of fusion reaction and 3-d
simulation of motion of earth and displacement.
Former DRDO scientist Santhanam, who was also part of the
Pokhran-II nuke test group said last week that the 1998 tests
were not fully successful and India should conduct more
nuclear tests which are necessary from the point of view of
security.
Bureau Report
First Published: Wednesday, September 02, 2009, 21:28