India to Present Its First N-safety Report

The Economic Times
Apr 4, 2008

MUMBAI: India will present its first detailed report on safety of the civilian nuclear plants at the forthcoming two-week Convention of Nuclear Safety (CNS) beginning on April 14 at Vienna. India joined the convention in 2005 and "this will be our first national report on the safety of civilian nuclear plants," Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Chairman, S K Sharma who will be leading a 17-member team to CNS told media on Friday. "Although nuclear power plants all over the world are operating at a very high level of safety and we have different means of exchanging such information on safety, the CNS would furhter strengthen the safety of operating nuclear power plants," he said. "In 2005 when India joined the convention just three months before the third review meeting, we were just an observer, he said. CNS review meeting is held every third year. Sixty countries will be participating in the convention and there will be six groups each represented by 10 countries with a chairman, vice-chairman and a rapporteur. At the end of the two week, a combined report for the president of the convention will be prepared, he said.