Nuke liability rules are not US-specific: expert

MR Srinivasan said that according to the rules, recourse claims are limited to accidents in first five years and they are framed keeping solely the Indian suppliers in mind. Bangalore: The recently notified liability rules largely concern the domestic suppliers and are not America-specific at all, a key member of the Indian nuclear establishment said today. He said recourse claims being capped for first five years is “certainly alright”, noting that operators keep on making various technological changes and should take all the responsibility for their acts. When it was pointed out that Fukushima happened almost three decades after the initial reactor supply, Srinivasan said it’s not the result of suppliers’ indifference; it’s because of the “bad decision” of the company to locate the plant at a “lower level” and not higher.