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From Greenpeace India:
“Was Jaitapur site given clearance without conclusive studies, questions Greenpeace Press release – January 22, 2016

New Delhi, 22 January 2016: There are close to 16 fault lines near the Jaitapur nuclear project site, according to a 2006 Geological Survey of India. While the project has been given an ‘in-principle’ site approval, and the preliminary construction has already started at the site, the report commissioned by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in 2002 has been under review for 10 years now.

Greenpeace was allowed to examine the report in March 2014 under the Right to Information Act, but was not allowed to make copies stating that the “Report is under review, thus copy of the same has not been provided” [1]. “The report states there are six fault lines within the 5km radius of the project site, if the report is still under review…