No increase in radiation in our country
MUMBAI: In India the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), which is continuously keeping check on the radiation levels in India due to the nuclear crisis in Japan, said there was no increase in radiation in the country “over and above the natural background”.
The AERB said in a release, data from the Indian Environmental Radiation Monitoring Network (IERMON) till today showed that there has been no increase in radiation levels at various locations within India over and above the natural background.
A new and revised provisional rating issued by Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), for the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the IAEA International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) as Level 7.
NISA has estimated that the amount of radioactive material released to the atmosphere is nearly 10 per cent of the 1986 Chernobyl accident in Russia, which was rated at Level 7 on INES scale; the release said quoting AERB secretary R Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya said, “We continue to closely follow the events unfolding at the Fukushima nuclear power plants.”
“The high-level committee constituted by AERB has already began deliberations in reviewing the safety of Indian nuclear power plants in the light of the accident at Fukushima,” he said.
