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India’s misguided aim to be a great nuclear power nation

INDIA: Lured into playing the “Great Power” Nuclear Game, Scarry Thoughts, 1 Dec 15  The Paris Climate Conference is on, and India is being recognized as central to the whole thing.

What I learned at the World Nuclear Victims Forum in Hiroshima is that India is on the cusp of a massive nuclear power generation expansion . . .

and that Japan, which is in the midst of a nuclear power disaster (Fukushima), is doing everything it can to export nuclear power plants to India. A “Great Power” Game 

As explained by Kumar Sundaram at the forum in Hiroshima, in the post-Fukushima era, the rest of the world is re-thinking nuclear power; India, however, is acting on a very old aspiration that it is just now able to bring to fruition………

The proposed plants include 6 from France, 4 from GE-Hitachi,and 4 from Westinghouse-Toshiba, and include a 10,000 MW plant – which would be the biggest in the world.

Indian hibakusha include the uranium workers of Jadugoda — as documented by the photographer Ashish Birulee, of the Jadugoda Uranium Mine Anti-Radiation Alliance.  Moreover, the system of avoiding worker protections at nuclear power plants by using sub-contractors of sub-contractors of sub-contractors mean that all nuclear workers in India are at high risk.

The enormous irony is that now one country — India — is responding to its past subjugation by the Western imperial program with this hugely self-damaging program, and another country that has struggled with its relationship to the Western imperial program — Japan — is doing everything it can to aid and abet. http://joescarry.blogspot.com.au/

December 2, 2015 - Posted by | general

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