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Indian government not really concerned about nuclear waste

today, we don’t have a waste management problem. We will have it by the year 2020-2030,”

Nuclear waste not an immediate problem for India: Ramesh – The Economic Times, 4 Jan 2011, NEW DELHI: Amid concerns over waste management at the proposed nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said it was not an immediate problem for India and lamented a lack of balanced environmental approach towards nuclear energy.

“This discussion has come at a time when there had been a lot of concern about Jaitapur. A lot of concern has been raised about waste management…today, we don’t have a waste management problem. We will have it by the year 2020-2030,” Ramesh said.
He said it would be “really wrong” to claim that India faced the problem of nuclear waste management today. “Today, we don’t have waste management.

The second stage of the three stage cycle (of using nuclear fuel) enables us to deal with much of the waste as is being generated today,” he said participating in a panel discussion on ‘Our nuclear future: perspective and prospects’. ……..
NGOs and green activists are up in arms against an ambitious 10,000-mw nuclear power project being set up by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in Jaitapur amid concerns over ecology, displacement of local populace and nuclear waste management.

January 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, wastes