N-energy remains essential option despite Japan: PM

On Board PM’s Special Plane: Despite the nuclear crisis in Japan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight batted for nuclear power as an essential option of energy and said the present “nervousness” in the world would end when the issue is discussed in a “cool-headed” manner.
“We are too close to Japanese disaster,” he told accompanying journalists while returning from his two-nation tour of China and Kazakhstan when asked why he continued to pursue nuclear cooperation with various countries despite the experience in Fukushima in Japan where the crisis was triggered by radiation leak after tsunami hit nuclear plants.
Singh noted that in the aftermath of the disaster, “there is certain amount of nervousness over extensive use of nuclear power.