Spark learnt from the sources that, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), asked the states having nuclear projects to prepare plans for development of emergency planning zone in 16 KMs radius around these plants.
The move came with the memories of Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster last year.
The proposal established by the Vice President, NDMA after consultation with Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury, was for the plan covering all the villages and habitations falling under the Emergency Planning Zone.
A statement from NDMA said that the Authority had carried out mock exercises last year to look at the off-site nuclear emergency plans as part of its initiatives of enhanced preparedness in the country in the wake of the Fukushima experience. After the exercises it was decided that a development plan covering all the villages and habitations falling under the 16-km radius of the plant must be developed.
Spark found that, the government of Karnataka has already prepared a proposal for upgrading the infrastructure around the Kaiga Atomic Power Plant.
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