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By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI, DEC. 28 . The Centre today allayed fears related to the Kalpakkam Atomic Power Station near Chennai after 61 people were killed in its vicinity on Sunday in the Tsunami onslaught. Emerging from a meeting with the Prime Minister, the National Security Adviser, J.N. Dixit, said "the reactors and basic capacities of the plant are absolutely safe and there is no radiation whatsoever at the atomic power station." Though there was no casualty inside the power station, 30 staffers and their kin living nearby were killed. Of the two units at the station, one had been closed for maintenance even before the tsunami struck and the second unit was shut after seawater entered one of the pits. The water in the pit was being pumped out and efforts were on to restart the reactors, Mr. Dixit said. The Prime Minister has asked the Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, Anil Kakodkar, to stay in Kalpakkam as long as required. The reactors would be restarted on the advice of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board. Its members would reach there tomorrow to check the facilities.
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