N-plant processes under review after Kaiga incident: Chavan

New Delhi, Dec 3 (PTI) Indian Government Thursday said it
was reviewing processes and procedures at all nuclear power
stations following the "deliberate" contamination of drinking
water at Karnataka's Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in
which 92 employees suffered radiation.
Making a suo-motu statement in the Lower House of Indian
Parliament (Lok Sabha), Minister of State in Prime Minister
Office Prithviraj Chavan said there was no security breach or
damage to KAPS and "all the plant systems are operating
safely."
He said there was no radioactivity release in the
environment due to the incident of drinking water
contamination at Kaiga, which has been described as "mischief
by an insider".
An interim report of an internal probe by Nuclear Power
Corporation indicated possibility of mischief by an insider
who had deliberately added some heavy water containing tritium
to the drinking water cooler, he said.
"As regards the investigation, the local and central
agencies are at work and the evidence like log books, close
circuit TV footage, analysis of water samples etc are being
used to ascertain the facts," he said.
Chavan said on November 24 urine samples of employees
working in the combined service building for reactor units I
and II showed higher than normal traces of tritium, a heavier
isotope of hydrogen. (MORE) PTI