- HYDERABAD (Reuters) - An
explosion at a nuclear fuel processing plant in Andhra Pradesh at the weekend
caused no radioactive leak or injuries, officials said on Monday.
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- "There was no spread of any radioactive material.
No employee was injured," a spokesman for the Nuclear Fuel Complex
on the outskirts of Hyderabad told Reuters.
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- Officials of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)
have begun a probe into the cause of the blast early on Sunday inside a
chemical facility at the sprawling complex which houses about 25 plants,
the spokesman said.
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- But officials said the incident was not serious.
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- "The blast occurred in the chemical plant used for
uranium purification," S.M. Rao, deputy chief executive (safety) at
the Nuclear Fuel Complex, said. "It's the kind of accident common
in any chemical plant. There's nothing serious about it.
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- Energy-strapped India aims to generate 20,000 megawatts
of nuclear power over the next two decades but its civilian nuclear programme
has been dogged by lack of international funding because of a parallel
nuclear weapons programme.
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