Karwar: There have been serious violations of protocol at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in handing radioactive material. The guidelines issued by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) to its employees on handling radioactive material appear to have not been followed by some employees at the Kaiga station, Gopal B.

Karwar: Intelligence agencies had warned the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) authorities about possible threats to the security of the Kaiga power plant.

Raman Gupta, Superintendent of Police, Uttar Kannada had written on two occasions to the officials in charge of the security of the plant conveying the concerns of intelligence agencies.

As a further step towards the setting up of a nuclear power plant in Haryana, a team of officers of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), led by its chairman-cum-managing director SK Jain, will arrive here tomorrow on a two-day visit to initiate pre-project activities.

Karwar: The station director of the Kaiga Atomic Power Station, J.P. Gupta, has denied that there was a security lapse on the part of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) at Kaiga.

He said different government agencies were investigating the case of contamination of the drinking water by tritium in Unit 1.

Mahesh Kulkarni / Karwar December 01, 2009, 1:27 IST

About 50 employees are being interrogated.

The Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KAPS) authorities have commenced investigation to identify the person responsible for poisoning the drinking water dispenser at the premises with radioactive isotope Tritium, a senior official said today.

Says water contamination in Kaiga not very serious

NEW DELHI: An inquiry into the water contamination in the Kaiga power plant is under way, and answers will come out soon, Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan has said.

THE Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) on Sunday confirmed that radioactive tritium was deliberately put in a water cooler at the high-security Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant, in Karnataka, exposing about 50 workers to increased level of radiation.

T.S. Subramanian

HARIPUR : Tension is mounting with every passing day at Haripur and Soula where thousands of fishermen and local residents are gearing up to protest against any government move to acquire land for implementing projects.

Mumbai: The process to build the first nuclear power plants at a cost of Rs33,000 crore after India's re-entry into global nuclear trade will be set into motion with the beginning of land acquisition tomorrow at Jaitapur in coastal Maharashtra.