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10,000 Young Indians Call for Pause on Nuclear Power

Nuclear   option is not for future generations! The Indian Youth-Science Forum. 15 Dec 09
Ten thousand (10,000)  young scientists, engineering students and   concerned citizens,  have,  in a Memorandum to Prime Minister who is also Atomic Energy Minister, asked the  Government of India  to re- assess the  futuristic social  cost  of  its   ambitious  Nuclear Power programme……

It takes 10-15 years to  build a nuclear power plant but the designed life of a reactor is only 50 years. There after for hundred years the entire structure, plant area, equipment and tones of  nuclear waste material  pose serious engineering and financial problems for their safe-keeping. According to  the World Nuclear Industry Status Report, (August, 2009), the Nuclear Power  is on “downward trend world wide”  and   “the largest nuclear builders in the world AREVA NP  has turned into financial fiasco”…………..

.  The Kyoto Protocol had excluded nuclear power from the Clean Development Mechanism.  Dr. Richard Mould’s study Chernobyl: Th Real Story describes how   tens of thousands citizens in Europe suffered the radiation effects. Contaminated helicopters, vehicles,   buildings, machines, tools, roads, soil, trees, and forests had to be abandoned.   “The accident at Chernobyl reaffirmed what an abyss will open if nuclear war befalls mankind.  For inherent in the nuclear arsenals stockpiled are thousands upon thousands of potential disasters far more horrible than the Chernobyl one,’ concluded Dr. Mould………………

The memorandum calls for a national debate on nuclear energy as no Parliamentary Committee  had discussed the reliability and performance of “Peaceful Nuclear” programme. The government had avoided inter-departmental discussions with Science and Public Policy ministries –Energy, Finance, Planning Commission, Science and Technology, and Environment. Since the safer and economical Renewable Sources of Energy:  Water, Wind and Solar are available to us, there is absolutely no necessity to commit the future generations to potentially hazardous nuclear industrial option.

This memorandum is open for supportive signature campaign till January 1, 2010.
Please circulate it among your friends and confirm to include you among the signatories.

Campaign sponsored by: The Indian Youth-Science Forum.
Coordinator: Dr. Dhirendra Sharma,    Centre for Science Policy.   psand@vsnl.net
“Nirmal Nilay”, Bhagwantpur, Dehradun 248 009.  (0135) 2735 627.
Mob.  989788 3741.  (Read whole article at https://nuclear-news.net/2009/12/09/time-we-all-woke-up-to-the-pro-nuclear-con/#comments  )

December 14, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin