No re-look in nuclear policy post Fukushima disaster last year: India

NEW DELHI: India is not re-looking into the policy related to nuclear power after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in Japan in March last year, the government said on Thursday.

Minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office V Narayanasamy said post Fukushima incident, there were announcements in Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Taiwan regarding gradual phase out of nuclear power.

" As per available information, these countries have not shut down all their nuclear power reactors," he said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

He said Japan has recently started two nuclear power reactors, Ohi-3&4. Germany continues to operate nine of their seventeen nuclear power reactors.

It has shutdown remaining eight nuclear power reactors which have completed their economic life. Switzerland continues to operate all the five nuclear power reactors and Taiwan still operates its six nuclear power reactors.