Bangalore: The Kaiga nuclear plant consisting of four reactors comes under seismic zone three which ordinarily means a moderate damage risk zone.

There are five seismic zones in India and zone five is the one with severest risk and high damage risk zone.

The nuclear crisis in Japan is a wake-up call for India and everyone else, readily admitted Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday.

He said additional safety measures would be specified for the 10,000-Mw Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra's coastal Ratnagiri district.

Addressing a conclave on ‘Business and Climate Change' here, Ramesh said the govern

Mumbai: Leading nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar said on Monday that Jaitapur was relatively secure from a tsunami or an earthquake, amid demands for the reconsideration of the power plant project in the wake of the accident involving a facility in Japan.

Explosions were reported from two nuclear units at the Fukushima nuclear facility, along with a minor radiation leak, following a massive

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.

New Delhi: India sent a planeload of blankets to Japan on Sunday, to help tsunami-stricken people in the cold north-east of the country cope with weather, foreign ministry officials said.

The government has asked Haryana and Punjab to procure large numbers of woollen blankets, and sources said another lot of blankets will be sent soon.

Japanese officials struggled on Sunday to contain a quickly escalating nuclear crisis in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, saying they presumed that partial meltdowns had occurred at two crippled reactors, and that they were bracing for a second explosion, even as problems were reported at two more nuclear plants.

That brings the total number of troubled plants to four, inc

Boston: The tsunami that thrashed California's coast, triggered by the devastating earthquake in Japan, has caused damage totalling about $ 50 million in the west coast state.

Tokyo Electric Power Co, Toshiba Corp, East Japan Railway Co and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co are among companies that may be most hurt by the strongest earthquake on record to hit Japan, analysts and investors said.

Tokyo Electric, battling to avoid a meltdown at its Fukushima nuclear plant, faces

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit off Japan