A national alliance of political parties and
groups warned Thursday that the location of six reactors at Jaitapur in
Maharashtra "raises the risk of an accident substantially".
The National Committee in Solidarity with Jaitapur Struggle,
which met here Wednesday, said it was also not clear how the issues of spent
fuel storage were being addressed.
"The committee noted that there is not one plant of
this design that has yet been commissioned in the world, with plants in
Okilkuoto and Flamanville running into serious problems, both in their
construction and regulatory issues.
"The reactors being purchased from Areva company in
France are of untested technology and are exorbitantly expensive.
"The cost per unit of electricity of such a plant will
be 3-4 times that of equivalent coal-fired plants."
The committee noted that the time bound conditions imposed
on NPCIL in the Environmental Clearance granted to the project in November 2010
were already being flouted.
The meeting has decided to address a letter to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh raising these concerns.
The meeting was attended by Prakash Karat of CPI-M, A.B.
Bardhan and D. Raja of CPI, Ramvilas Paswan of LJP, Venugopal Reddy of TDP,
Danish Ali of JD-S and Prabir Purkayastha of Delhi Science Forum and others.
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