SC seeks information on spent n-fuel

New Delhi - The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to tell how it was reprocessing and storing unusable spent radioactive fuel of nuclear power plants.

"File a specific affidavit how the spent fuel, after it becomes waste, is stored, its safety and impact on environment," the apex court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Dipak Misra told Solicitor General Rohinton Nariman, who appeared for the NPCIL.

The court asked Nariman how that part of the spent fuel that could be reprocessed for reuse was transported to two reprocessing centres in the country and how the remaining non-reusable material was stored.

The court was hearing a petition filed by information technology professional G. Sundarrajan from Tamil Nadu, seeking to restrain the government from going ahead with operationalising Kudankulam nuclear power plant in the state.