Kudankulam protest will re-ignite if nuclear building continues

Anti-nuke activists threaten to revive stir, Times of India TNN | Oct 3, 2011, TIRUNELVELI: Ten days after the agitation against the construction of a nuclear plant at coastal Kudankulam in southern Tamil Nadu was withdrawn, the anti-nuclear plant activists have threatened to revive the protest if the ongoing work in the multi-crore Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), was not suspended.

The activists, who spearheaded the 12-day protest by the villagers, have threatened that they would embark on a mass fast from October 9, if theCentral government failed to suspend the ongoing commissioning work in the nuclear plant by October 7.

Representatives of non-governmental organisations, social activists, anti-nuclear plant groups and community leaders took the decision at the consultative meeting held in Kudankulam to discuss about the future course of action on the project on Sunday. A group of activists from Kerala also visited Kudankulam to express their solidarity with the anti-nuke protestors here. “This time around we are planning to take the protest across the state rather than restricting it to Kudankulam or Idinthakarai,” said S Sivasubramanian, an anti-nuclear plant activist….. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/Anti-nuke-activists-threaten-to-revive-stir/articleshow/10213344.cms

October 3, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, opposition to nuclear

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My advice to the activists. Be vigilant because these traitors of our land and our poeple will surface and try every trick in the book to destroy our economy and our feeling of security by planting these inheritantly dangerous nuclear plants, the costs of which are phenomenal and which will be passed on to us. There is a shortage of uranium so the government has to spend crores to buy this dangerous fuel that will leave deadly waste for our kids FOREVER. Plus the average temperature of South India will go up by several degrees which iwill ncrease air-conditioning , so the so-called additional 1000MW electricity will all be used for this additional air-conditioning. Why did the Russians bring the equipment by sea.Is it old radio-active contaminated containments from old Russian Plants? Do we know? Do we need to eat radio-active fish? The fish is already contaminated from Fukushima. The Koondankalam plant can be trasferred to New Delhi and placed by the Parliament if it is so safe. We don’t require it here in South India. I advise everyone to put solar panels on their roofs if they can. The less we depend on this miserable grid that provides electricity that comes from plants that cause cancer and disease and displacement of others the better off we will be.

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