New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to make a statement at the ongoing Nuclear Security Summit at Seoul in South Korea on Tuesday. He is also likely to meet his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on the sidelines of the summit. Bilateral talks with Canada, Spain and Turkey have also been lined up. Singh is expected to return to India by Tuesday evening.
India is expected to stress that guns, gates and guards do not make nuclear plants secure at the Nuclear Security Summit which began in Seoul as 58 world leaders on Monday began discussing measures to secure all vulnerable fissile materials across the globe.
Singh will likely speak on the interface between nuclear safety and nuclear security in his luncheon address. He is also expected to underline steps taken by India to make its nuclear installations secure.
"The issue of safety has to be taken care of at the planning stage. Guns, gates and guards do not make a plant secure.
Right at the design stage the zoning has to be done in such a way that access to areas can be easily controlled," Ravi Grover, Senior Adviser, Department of Atomic Energy said.
A key theme at the second Nuclear Security Summit was tackling insider threats to nuclear installations. India is expected to state that such concerns need to be addressed at the stage when a nuclear plant is designed.
"It has to be done in such a manner that a particular person has access to a particular area and not all areas of a nuclear installation," Grover said.
With additional information from PTI
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