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India borrowing from France, to buy France’s nuclear reactors

Interesting to watch the developments in India, as the people’s  Koodankulam anti nuclear protest continues. The Russian engineers have now left the site, as work cannot proceed, due to the public opposition.

The Indian nuclear corporation cannot afford its planned new nuclear plants at Jaitapur and Koodankulam, which they are buying from France and Russia respectively.  But hey! – that’s no problem, because they are going to borrow the money from France and Russia.   Seems like the Indian government is working on behalf of foreign companies, not the Indian people.    Nuclear Power Corp Looks Overseas for Loans     .http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204257504577149981322117366.html

The Indian government is also learning from France’s nuclear company, AREVA, on how to manipulate public opinion. With jolly jingles and other cheery messages, they hope to convince the community that nuclear power is just fine. At left above, a  sample of AREVA’s message to children, in its Australian brochure. – Christina Macpherson

NPCIL launches campaign to clear KNPP concerns,Zee News, January 09, 2012,  Chennai: Amid the standoff over the controversial Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited has launched an intense media campaign to allay safety fears of the people in and around the project site.

“NPCIL has produced 60-second long advertisements to be telecast on TV channels. These will carry messages on cancer and on some issues raised by fishermen,” an official said here today.

In the advertisements, renowned oncologist Dr V Shanta of Cancer Institute, Chennai, marine life experts Murugesan and Sugumaran will clear doubts that locals and fishermen might have (about nuclear
power), they said. The campaign would be telecast on Tamil TV channels, apparently targeting the local population who have been up in arms against the Indo-Russian collaborative project since September last.

NPCIL officials had already aired 60-second long jingles on private radio channels in Tirunelveli district. The commissioning of the plant, earlier slated in December 2011, has been delayed after protests by locals on grounds of safety.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/tamil-nadu/npcil-launches-campaign-to-clear-knpp-concerns_751574.html

January 10, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, marketing