Leaders of G-8 countries urged for more stringent international rules on nuclear safety following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant. Talking to reporters at G-8 summit in the northern French seaside town of Deauville, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the members of G-8 wish to get a very high standard of regulation on nuclear safety, that will apply to all countries involved in civilian nuclear energy and which will take safety to the highest levels ever.
The govt on Tuesday decided to go ahead with the Jaitapur nuclear project with plans of a new compensation package as a decision to this effect was taken in a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Pushing ahead with the controversial Jaitapur atomic power plant, government today said it has decided to have a stand-alone safety system in the designs of each reactors, two of which are expected to be operational by 2019 and announced a bill would be brought to create an autonomous nuclear regulatory body.