Bangalore: With radiation contamination of a
water cooler at the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant in Karnataka
raising an alarm, a top former official of Atomic Energy
Commission has called for "character surveillance" of
employees working at such vital installations.
"This (incident) shows that it has been possible for
somebody to create intended mischief," former AEC Chairman M R
Srinivasan told PTI here, adding the administrative procedures
needed to be strengthened and additional radiation detection
equipment installed at various places.
He suggested "another kind of character surveillance" of
employees in nuclear power plants to monitor and weed out
people of "doubtful integrity".
"Some people (working in such plants) may turn..shall I
say unreliable for reasons of their own."
Srinivasan said he won`t say that the Kaiga incident was
a "disaster" in the sense of radiation going into environment
or reactor in any danger or anything of that kind.
"I don`t think it (Kaiga incident) should change our
attitude towards nuclear energy," he said, adding the systems
should be tightened further safeguards built.
PTI
