‘Need to address fears around nuclear plants’: Oxford physicist

India had taken giant strides in coming up with a road map on nuclear technology soon after Independence but could not make much progress because of the failure to address public concerns about its safety, said Subir Sarkar, a professor of physics at the University of Oxford.

Sarkar, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, was speaking at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, on Monday. He said the fears about nuclear energy remained because agencies like the department of atomic energy (DAE) did not reach out to the people in an effective manner.