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Kaiga plant at tsunami-proof location [1]

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.

Publication Date: 
16/03/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Koyna [3], Kaiga APS [4], Tsunami [5], Natural Disasters [6], Karnataka [7], Nuclear Power Plants [8]
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