Energy, Risk and Governance by Catherine Mei Ling Wong

Author:Catherine Mei Ling Wong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

The NPCIL have also been known to obtain the licence to operate despite flouting the legal requirements of the AERB (see Gopalakrishnan 1999, 2012; Ramana 2014). A most recent example of this is the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant (KKNPP) in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, in 2013. Off-site emergency exercises involving the residents of surrounding villages were an important legal procedure that needed to be completed successfully before the operating licence from the AERB could be granted. However, an independent fact-finding report by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) found that the off-site emergency exercise was conducted at one nearby village, Nakkaneri, on the morning of 9 June 2012, by the NPCIL with just one AERB official present, without informing the public or the media. The villagers came to know about the exercise only later through media reports. The report also noted that only one village was involved in the exercise, whereas regulatory standards require the enrolment of at least a number of villages, especially those most likely to be affected by the nuclear power plant (PUCL 2012).

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