This March 11, 2012, file photo, shows three melted reactors, from left, Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Japan revised a roadmap on Friday, Dec. 27, 2019, for the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup, further delaying the removal of thousands of spent fuel units that remain in cooling pools since the 2011 disaster.
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“Not a single clause or word which says anything about supplier liability,” said Congress MP Manish Tewari in Lok Sabha. His peer Shashi Tharoor added, “A supplier, who has provided faulty equipment, walks away without any liability and Indian tax-payers are made to bear the brunt”. The newly passed Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Act, 2025 has made drastic changes to liability laws in case of nuclear accident — exempting suppliers (foreign or domestic) from any statutory liability, while capping the liability of nuclear plant operators to ₹3,000 crores. Published - December 27, 2025 06:30 pm IST
