India Cannot Abandon Nuclear Power: Jairam Ramesh

"What has happened in Japan is very serious. We will have to learn appropriate lessons and whatever additional safeguards, additional precautions are required we must take, but I don't believe India can abandon nuclear energy (programme)," Ramesh told mediapersons here yesterday.

As to the Jaitapur nuclear power project in coastal Maharashtra, where local opposition to the plant has intensified after the earthquake in Japan, the Minister said, "The country is divided into different levels of seismic zones. I don't know at what level the Jaitapur plant is located. Read the full report here.

Source: Coastal Digest.com, Hyderabad.