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People of Kudankalam’s petition to stop nuclear power plant

The petition said the Government had also absolved the Russian supplier of the nuclear reactor from any liability in case of an accident. And Russia has already stated that it not responsible for any nuclear blasts.

India’s Judiciary creates scam over Kudankulam The Canadian,  17 SEPTEMBER 2012  ……….When the Indian government Regime Targets People.

The Indian regime, committed to the welfare of the people is interested only in promoting the nuclear and other arms merchants and is threatening the people with impending nuclear disasters.

One has no idea as to how many more nukes India wants and for what, because it has already plenty of weapons of mass destruction at various sites.  Madras High court and Supreme court seem not worried about the deadly risks involved in the state nuke manufacturing agenda. Both High CA private company’s employee moved the Supreme Court against a Madras High Court order giving the green signal to the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu.

People of Kudankulam moved the Supreme Court. Indian regime seems  to have exerted pressure to expedite the case so that uranium terror operations can continue. In fact it was not known when the petition would come up before the apex court. But the regime among other interested parties pushed for an early verdict so that the process of continued of fuelling of the nuclear reactor with deadly poisonous uranium quickly manufacturing nukes?

IT professional P. Sundarrajan moved the apex court contending that the government should not go ahead with the loading of the fuel rods till 17 safety steps recommended by the expert committee are implemented. Petitioner G. Sundarrajan, working with an IT company, claimed that the Madras high court paved the way for starting the plant without ensuring that critical safety features were in place. He challenged the Aug 31 verdict of the high court and sought an ex-parte interim order restraining the government from going ahead with the initial fuel loading of Unit I and 2 of the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tirunelveli district.

The petition said the Government had also absolved the Russian supplier of the nuclear reactor from any liability in case of an accident. And Russia has already stated that it not responsible for any nuclear blasts.

Besides the central government, the petitioner made the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, the power plant director and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board as respondents.
Mentioning the matter before the bench, counsel for the petitioner Prashant Bhushan, a prominent member of Anna team, spearheading anti-corruption campaign, told the court that the expert committee was set up after Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan, to suggest safety steps to ward off any such incident. Bhushan told the court that out of 17 safety steps recommended by the expert committee only six have been put in place and to implement the remaining 11, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) will require six months to two years. The petitioner had said that the recommendations of the government’s own expert task force on the critical safety features had not been implemented so far.

The petitioner said that the recommendations of the government’s own expert task force on the critical safety features had not been implemented so far. “The recommendations are extremely critical to the safety of the plant and it could not be allowed to run even for a day without adequate safety and backup features in place,” the petition said.

The task forces’ recommendations, amongst several others, concerning alternative fresh water storage system and emergency pumping equipment, were yet to be implemented even. And state claims it is supreme to decide everything against people’s safety.

People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), which is spearheading the stir, said the agitators have put forward four demands – stoppage of the process of fuel-loading in KNPP, giving up of the plan to arrest anti-nuclear movement leaders, adequate compensation for those who suffered losses and release of those already taken into custody. In other words, the people use the simple villager language to tell the terrocratic regime to quickly dismantle the nuclear assets from their soil so that they can live without nuclear terror fear.

If this govt can’t handle garbage, how will it handle nuclear waste?….. http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/intrnational/2012/09/17/4465.html

September 17, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, Legal