Union Cabinet has cleared the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of India Bill. The Bill envisages an Autonomous Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).
The bill seeks to give the proposed Nuclear Regulatory Authority of India full power to stop construction work and also order a shut down of an operating nuclear plant.The bill would give more powers to the country's nuclear regulator by making it a statutory body. It is also proposed that the NRAI order cannot be challenged in a court of law. The authority is likely to include persons of eminence from engineering, environment, social, nuclear and finance areas.
Government had decided to fast track setting up of the NRAI in the backdrop of the Fukushima nuclear plant accident.
Related facts:
1.National Security Adviser of India is Shivshankar Menon
2.Lifetime Achievement Award, instituted by the Department of Atomic Energy is given to nuclear scientist N. Srinivasan.
3.Atomic Energy Commission Chairman is Srikumar Banerjee
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