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Via Dianuke.org:
“Former Union Secretary (Power) Dr. EAS Sarma’s open letter to the Indian PM Narendra Modi and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe
DECEMBER 5, 2015

To, Mr. Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan

Subject:- Proposed Indo-Japanese Nuclear Supply Agreement- Major concerns

Your Excellencies,

After protracted negotiations, involving several contentious issues, often pressured by the western nuclear manufacturing lobbies and the nuclear establishment within Japan, India and Japan seem to be on the threshold of concluding a nuclear supply agreement during the Japanese Prime Minister’s visit to India around the middle of this month.

As a resident of north Andhra Pradesh where India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) proposes to set up a coastal 6,000 MWe nuclear power plant near Kovvada village, I feel intensely concerned about the safety of the people here in the event of an unfortunate accident taking place, similar…