As a resident of kalpakkam living for 18 years I feel the emergency drill conucted in the Plant is of no use practically.Main reasons for it are:
1. Most of the employees know the date of emergency drill well in advance.
So they all pack thier bags and are ready @ 2pm itself switching off all the instruments.
(Some of employees also take leave on that day)
They board the bus get off at sadras & walk.
I feel that is what is happening over the years.
Ofcourse there are meetings held by officials who conduct this drills.But What s the point in doing so by wasting public money.
2. Also only the employees are shifted from site.What about those who are living in sadras near rountana.Are they not humans.
The very purpose of conducting the drill is to evacuvate people when they dont know that emergency situation has occured.
Though at the time of Tsunami the officials managed to evacuvate people,How much time they took. Roughly around 8 hours.
I strongly feel that if a real crisis situation comes in reactor(hope it doesnt) they will not be able to evacuvate properly leading to many losses.
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Bye
Srikanth[addsig]