IAEA: India Rajasthan nuclear reactors 'safe'
This is the first time ever that India has allowed access to UN inspectors
The UN nuclear watchdog has said India's reactors are among the "best and safest" in the world.
After doing an audit of two reactors at the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station over several weeks, it said the plant "can withstand a Fukushima-type accident"
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), however, said "improvements were needed in fire protection and electrical cabling systems".
This is the first time ever that India has allowed access to UN inspectors.
Indian experts, however, say the situation at some of the older reactors is different and that India must allow UN inspectors to audit them too.
"India has emerged a winner with a high global safety rank [in the audit]," Miroslav Lipar, head of the Operational Safety Division at the IAEA in Vienna, said.
Mr Lipar headed a 12-member multinational team from the Operational Safety Division of the IAEA which visited the indigenously made 220 MW Indian-made reactors at the Rajasthan plant for their operational safety.
"The Indian reactors are safe and impressive," he said, but also pointed out that "there was room for improvement".
–BBC