India Current Affairs Article
Koodankulam Nuclear power plant is ‘very well protected’-experts.
November 14, 2011 7:22 am
Comment
P.S.Remesh Chandra. says:
All nuclear reactors are safe before they blow away.
All the nuclear reactors in the world that blew apart were claimed to have been proved safe and well protected, claimed by ‘dignitaries’ and ‘experts’ in those countries’ Atomic Energy Regulatory Agencies and Disaster Prevention Establishments. Any human error, miscalculation or purposeful wrong doing in the designing, making or running can make any human installation go rowdy. Not one human creation has ever been an exception to this. We believe many mighty things erected by man on the face of the earth, inside and above it to be flawless because we do not know about the internal problems contained in them. People who daily run those things know better and they almost always are prevented from speaking. When the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and the National Disaster Management Authority claim that everything is ship shape and under control at the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu in South India and that the plant is well protected, we will begin to think that both organizations are going to move their headquarters to inside the plant and those experts and authorities are going to live there, inside the safe plant, for the next five years. Are they bold and committed enough to do that? When bridges were built in the past, the engineer and his family stayed beneath in boats in the river, while the heaviest of vehicles moved along the bridge during inauguration. Since no one no more has to keep such respectful models in social commitment and responsibility, any one can say anything. If we are to believe that all Disaster Management People said it right and true, no disasters would have occurred in the world during the past two centuries. They continue to occur out of human error, miscalculation and wrong doing. Disaster management is, in practical terms, management of disaster once they have occurred, not one hundred percent preventing it.