Tuticorin, November 28: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar has said India’s 1998 nuclear test was a ‘hundred per cent success’.
“I assure (you) that the nuclear test conducted in 1998 was hundred per cent success. The yield of the test was verified using various alternative methods and it was perfect,” he told reporters after inaugurating the Zirconium complex at Pazhayakal near here yesterday.
Kakodakar’s remarks came in response to a question about the controversy surrounding the 1998 Pokhran nuclear test after some top nuclear scientists raised doubts about the success of the explosion.
He also expressed satisfaction over the progress made in the Indo-US nuclear agreement.
The country’s second Zirconium plant here, the first being at Hyderabad, has a capacity to produce 500 tonnes of Zirconium Oxide and 250 tonnes of Zirconium Sponge per annum, which are used for manufacturing Zirconium alloy components required for nuclear power reactors.
—Agencies