In a case of sabotage, Atomic Energy Commission chief Anil Kakodkar on Sunday said somebody "deliberately" put radioactive tritium in a water cooler at the Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant that exposed about 50 workers to increased level of radiation.
The culprits behind the 'criminal act' of mixing highly radioactive tritium heavy water in the water cooler at the Kaiga nuclear power plant in Karnataka are yet to be identified, a top Atomic Energy Commission official said on Monday.
Principal scientific advisor to the government of India R Chidambaram, said on Tuesday, that there was no need to panic over the issue of recent incident of radiation contamination in the drinking water cooler at Kaiga Nuclear Power Plant in Karnataka.
Nabbing the real culprit may be difficult since there was no CCTV in front of the water cooler where the alleged sabotage took place.
Superintendent of Police (Uttar Kannada) Rama Gupta had sensed this problem almost a year ago and had shot off two letters in March and July to the plant authorities as well as the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited stating that an inter-union rivalry could lead to the security of the plant being compromised.
He said efforts were on to increase the capacity and negotiations for agreement with the US were going on.
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