After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assurance in the Parliament on the safety audit of all atomic plants in the country in the aftermath of Japan's nuclear crisis, multilevel safety measures have been put in place at the Kaiga atomic power plant in Karnataka on the west coast near Karwar in Uttara Kannada district. Kaiga Project Director JP Gupta told The Pioneer that four atomic plants had been under the cover of multilevel and full safety norms laid down by relevant authorities. He added that the Kaiga atomic station did not fall under the seismic zone. Gupta said, "We are always high on our safety measures in our nuclear plants. We have as per the safety committee recommendations, kept all measures intact to prevent any eventuality. Four units are producing 750 MW of power in Kaiga." "Our plants will shut down immediately if any radiation leak is there. We have an earthquake monitoring centre at the plant which warns us about seismic disturbances. We are really far off from seismic zone which is Koina in Maharashtra," he asserted. On the fear that the radiation leak in Japan would reach some of the Asian countries, he dismissed the thought and said the radiation level would reduce metre by metre and due to the vast distance between India and Japan the radiation threat from that fallout does not exist for India. The Kaiga atomic plant has been in operation since 2000 under the aegis of the State-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. Its four units use pressurised heavy water reactors to generate 220 MW each. Kaiga Station Director (Plant I & II) HN Bhat said that this plant in South India is in the sensitive zone No 3 and the biggest earthquake in the zone had been 5.7 on the Richter scale and this cannot create any serious tsunami waves. The power station, however, witnessed a couple of minor hiccups in the past. During Kaiga's construction in 1994 one of the lead walls of the under-surface of the pre-stressed concrete dome of the reactor unit-I collapsed, injuring 14 people, during the final stage of construction creating safety concerns. In November 2009, at least 55 employees of the plant were treated after an incident of contamination of a drinking water cooler which was caused due to alleged sabotage in which an insider had mixed the tritiated water into the cooler.