Of course,
all types of accidents kill – and nuclear power plant accidents are no
exception.
25 years
ago, Chernobyl ( Russia ) accident killed a few
hundred people.
Recently,
reactor meltdown at Fukushima ( Japan ) has
killed 3 workers.
Thankfully,
there have been no nuclear power plant accidents in India so far, although we have been
producing nuclear power for over 25 years.
This must
be seen in the perspective of the number of people being killed by
motor-vehicles during road accidents in India, as follows:
Ø
In
2009 ………………. 125,000
Ø
In
2010 ……………….160,000
Does that
mean we should stop making some 10+ million motor-vehicles per year and switch
over to traveling by trains ?
But then ,
even local trains are killing 10+ persons per day on the tracks of Mumbai alone
!
With
regards
Hemen Parekh
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