New Delhi: Even as Japan battled to stop a nuclear catastrophe, the government on Tuesday decided to review additional safeguards for the country

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New DelhiAmidst persisting concerns over the safety of nuclear power plants in view of what has happened in tsunami-devastated Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday sought to allay apprehensions on this count and said all nuclear installations in the country would nonetheless go through a review of their safety systems immediately.

PM orders technical review of plants to check if they can withstand major disasters

The Government, which banks on nuclear power to reduce dependence on petroleum, has refrained from backing a call for review of its policy, following the meltdown of two reactors in Japan.

In the backdrop of earthquake and tsunami affecting some of the nuclear power plants in Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the Parliament on Monday that the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and its agencies have been directed to carry out urgent technical review of all safety systems of nuclear power plants in India.

This, he said, was particularly with a view to ensuring that they

India's top nuclear bodies on Sunday said they would revisit all safety aspects of atomic plants in the country and analyse the nuclear crisis arising in Japan after the tsunami as it had offered new lessons to fine-tune existing emergency preparedness.

NEW DELHI: Besides the five agreements in the nuclear field that were announced on December 6 by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) during the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, two more agreements between India and France were signed here on the same date in the area of nuclear safety.