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India’s nuclear establishment secretive, like Japan’s

Fukushima Disaster: Nuclear power is a risk without independent regulation, The Economic Times, 12 MAR, 2012, “…….After Fukushima, you cannot underplay the risks of nuclear energy. It is now clear that utilities, manufacturers and vendors of nuclear technology were in bed with Japan’s bureaucrats and political parties. The establishment ignored the risks of building reactors in a highly seismic zone. Reactors were bunched up in so-called nuclear villages. Safety checks were ignored, overage plants were allowed to run.

Worldwide, nuclear power is controlled by the state. If the state adopts wink-andnudge policies, the people are at peril. … India’s nuclear establishment is totally opaque and there is no independent regulator….

March 12, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general