Indian government misrepresenting the facts on Jaitapur nuclear plant plan?
The report noted that notification of the region from high severity earthquake zone to moderate seismic severity zone had led to the perception that the government was hiding and misrepresenting facts…….
Study calls for nuke plant pause SATISH NANDGAONKAR, The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) Mumbai, Dec. 28: A social impact assessment report has slammed the 9900MW Jaitapur nuclear power park proposed in coastal Konkan, saying it would have a negative social and environmental impact on nearby villages. Continue reading
Political demand for review of approval for AREVA’s Jaitapur nuclear plant
Indian villagers’ civil rights trampled on for Jaitapur nuclear plant
“People who have faced the effects of a nuclear power project in their vicinity told us that this is a devastating project. They said that our next generation will have nothing to live and survive on…There is a sense of mistrust against the government. People here say they were not taken into confidence regarding the project, their lands were forcefully taken away, and their democratic protests were illegally thwarted.
Villagers protest against Jaitapur nuclear power plant, NDTV (India) , Ketki Angre, Prachi Jawadekar Wagh, 28 Dec 10, Ratnagiri: As farmers’ protests boil over in Ratnagiri, threatening to delay the 9,900 megawatt Jaitapur nuclear power plant – said to be the world’s largest – a concerned Maharashtra government dispatched a Congress team to Ground Zero………. Continue reading
Anti nuclear protest at Russian Consulate in India
the protestors demanded that the project should be scrapped.The protestors here said the locals at the proposed site are against the plant,
India-Russia future nuclear projects stalled because of Nuclear Liability Law
The two sides discussed setting up two additional units — Kudankulam 3 and 4 — but there was no agreement for these as was expected earlier. With the exception of Kudankulam 1 and 2, all future projects will come under the purview of the liability law. “There is no question of opposing the nuclear liability law.” …… a Russian official said.
Growing opposition to nuclear plant at Jaitapur, India
Shiv Sena offers support to nuclear plant protesters Health hazards and environmental impact worry local villagers. Gulf News, By Pamela Raghunath, December 21, 2010 Mumbai: As the stiff opposition to the proposed nuclear plant in Jaitapur, Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra, from local villagers grows stronger, the Shiv Sena is also throwing in its support to the people of Konkan region, once a stronghold of the party. Continue reading
India sticking with its Nuclear Liability Law, despite pressure from nuclear salesmen
the dealings by nuclear suppliers with India will have to be well within the legal framework envisaged in the legislation passed in Parliament….
India’s govt manipulating to satisfy USA nuclear salesmen
India’s stated commitment to ratifying the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage in the next year and to fairly treat U.S. firms was key to alleviating Washington’s worries about the liability rules,
Indian Atomic Liability Rules Satisfactory, U.S. Says, NTI: Global Security Newswire 17 Dec 10, The Obama administration’s apprehensions about a new Indian civil atomic liability law have been assuaged and U.S. and Indian companies have begun discussing potential collaboration on nuclear facilities under the two nations’2008 nuclear trade pact, a U.S. State Department official said yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 28). Continue reading
Drastic climate change would result from ‘limited’ nuclear war between Pakistan and India
The implications of nuclear war between Pakistan and India…….They conclude that a nuclear exchange involving 50 nuclear weapons would, in addition to the immediate devastation, send millions of tonnes of soot into the stratosphere and cause global climate change unprecedented in human history.
Rolling the nuclear dice with Australian uranium The Punch, Jim Green 15 Dec 10, Secret US cables concerning nuclear politics in South Asia provide important context for debates over Australia’s uranium export industry.
US cables released by Wikileaks warn that a limited Indian invasion of Pakistan, in response to an incident such as the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, would be to “roll the nuclear dice’’ and risk triggering nuclear warfare. Continue reading
Political uproar in India over planned Jaitapur nuclear plant
Opposition benches accused the government of imposing the nuclear power plant against the will of the people, and risking human lives and fisheries.
India’s nuclear capable missile test falls into the sea
Agni-II Prime’s launch fails, into sea in seconds, Indian Express, Debrabata Mohanty, 11 Dec 10, The maiden test launch of Agni-II Prime, a nuclear-capable surface-to-surface missile with a strike range of 2,500 km to 3,000 km, ended in a failure after the missile dropped into the sea a few seconds after launch from Wheeler Island, off the Orissa coast, on Friday…….Sources in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said soon after the missile took off at 10. 02 am from a mobile launcher of Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Islands, it dropped into the sea. “Experimental launch of Agni-2-P Missile experienced a trajectory deviation. A detailed analysis was in progress to find out the exact cause for the failure and it might take at least two to three days to make a preliminary assessment,” said a DRDO official.…Agni-II Prime’s launch fails, into sea in seconds
India’s Parliament urged to ensure AREVA is accountable for nuclear liability
urge the Central government to insist that Areva be contractually responsible for any cost overruns above the initially estimated figure,” Raja said. …………… Expressing concern over the possibility of NPCIL renouncing its right of recourse against Areva, Raja demanded the contract, including all matters related to nuclear liability, be placed in the public domain.
Now, Left opposes nuclear plant at Jaitapur, Zee News, 9 Dec 10, New Delhi: The CPI Wednesday questioned the environment clearance granted by the Centre to the nuclear power park proposed to be developed by French company Areva at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. Continue reading
Politicians join community protest against Jaitapur nuclear plant
The power plant will endanger the health of those living along the Konkan coast and it will also destroy agriculture”….”The government should not think that it can gag the public.”……
France selling India increasingly costly, untested, nuclear reactors
India is slated to purchase up to six of these reactors, of which the first two alone carry an estimated price tag of €11 billion…..The exact cost of each EPR in India has not been disclosed…..If the regulator asks for an additional safety system, for example, that could increase the price of the plant. If I was India, I would wait to see when that happened.”
Russia manipulating to avoid India’s Nuclear Liability Law
Russia’s concern over liability law may delay new Kudankulam pacts, The Hindu Priscilla Jebaraj, 4 Dec 10, Decision not taken to accept liability: Atomstroyexport MOSCOW: Russian reservations about the implications of India’s nuclear liability law may be delaying the contracts for two nuclear power reactors to be built in Kudankulam, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Continue reading
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