Radiation leak at Kaiga Nuclear plant is deliberate: Kakodkar
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, November 29, 2009
Atomic Energy Commission chairman Dr. Anil Kakodkar has said on Monday that somebody "deliberately" put radioactive tritium vials in a water cooler at the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant that exposed some workers to increase level of radiation on 24th of this month.
He said in Mumbai that after the investigation people responsible for this will be punished under Atomic Energy act.
"Somebody deliberately put the tritiated water vials into a drinking water cooler. Therefore, we are investigating who is behind the malevolent act," local media quoted him as saying.
About 45 to 50 employees working in the first maintenance unit of the Kaiga plant in Uttara Kannada district were treated at the plant hospital in Mallapur for increased level of tritium after they drank water from a water cooler.
Kakodkar said, "The investigations are being carried out from two angles. First to ascertain as to who contaminated the water cooler with tritiated heavy water, and the second from radiation protection angle."
