By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : Security at the country’s nuclear power plants is set to be stepped up with each of them getting a no-fly zone status.
“Yes, of course. We need a no-fly zone over reactors. They (security agencies) are working on it,” Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission told reporters here.
He said the civil aviation ministry is coordinating with other government agencies to put such systems in place but gave no timeframe.
“They have to put so many procedural things in place,” said Kakodkar, who is also Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy.
At present, the Tarapur Atomic Power Station near Mumbai is a no-fly zone.
India has nuclear power plants operational in Kaiga in Karnataka, Narora in Uttar Pradesh, Rawatbhata in Rajasthan, Kakrapar in Gujarat and, Kalpakkam and Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is a sensitive nuclear research facility at Trombay in suburban Mumbai, but it is almost impossible to make it a no-fly zone as it comes in the flight path of the main runway at the airport in the country’s financial capital.