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Anti-nuclear protests in Bengal make Russia want to change its nuclear sales plan

Worried over protests, Russia’s state-owned nuclear power equipment and service giant Rosatom wants to pull out of the proposed nuclear power plant at Haripur and has asked the Department of Atomic Energy to allot it another site.

Russians eager to quit Haripur – Kolkata – City – The Times of India, Sachin Parashar, TNN, Aug 23, 2010, NEW DELHI: In what may result in yet another setback for West Bengal owing to protests by Trinamool Congress and Maoists, Russia wants the central government to shift the location of the proposed nuclear power plant at Haripur in East Midnapore district.Government sources confirmed that Russia’s state-owned nuclear power equipment and service giant Rosatom has asked the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to seriously consider allotting it another site….
The Russians are said to be concerned over the manner in which the resistance, which was initially just about the risk of a nuclear plant leading to an increase in water temperature, has become political. ….
Worried over protests, Russia’s state-owned nuclear power equipment and service giant Rosatom wants to pull out of the proposed nuclear power plant at Haripur and has asked the Department of Atomic Energy to allot it another site.

A Trinamool minister at the Centre had warned in January that the people of the area would not allow the plant to come up. “How can the Centre and the state government go ahead when they are fully aware of the people’s opposition to the project,” minister of state for rural development Sisir Adhikary had said. Russians eager to quit Haripur – Kolkata – City – The Times of India

August 25, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, opposition to nuclear | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, reactors