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Kudankulam Anti nuclear protestors strengthen their resolve

Day after PM’s message, protesters stick to guns , Hindustan Times, Chennai, December 19, 2011 A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu could not remain idle and would be commissioned in a couple of weeks, people agitating against the project and the Centre appeared headed for a showdown. The protesters have set December 31 as the deadline for the removal of fuel assemblies (used to build the core of a reactor) from the plant complex, even as the Centre has launched a probe into suspected foreign funding of the agitation….
Simultaneously, the Centre is aggressively campaigning to allay the
fears of locals over the safety of the Indo-Russian plant in
Tirunelveli district, about 650 km south of Chennai.

On Saturday, the PM had said the protests were “overdone” and India
could not afford to have the plant – on which the government had spent
Rs14,000 crore – idle.

According to the PM, the Centre had gone out of its way to assure
people these reactors “are the safest available in the world”.

The protesters, however, are threatening to lay siege to the plant to
stop the commissioning.

SP Udayakumar, coordinator of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear
Energy, which is spearheading the protests, thanked chief minister J
Jayalalithaa on Sunday for asking the PM to allay the fears of locals
before taking any “precipitate action” on the project.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chennai/Day-after-PM-s-message-protesters-stick-to-guns/Article1-784176.aspx

December 19, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, opposition to nuclear