India’s nuclear program in trouble about lack of insurance
All property insurance covers exclude losses due to nuclear reaction, nuclear radiation or radioactive contamination.
Irda sounds out insurers on nuclear accident cover The Economic Times 29 Dec 2009, Hema Ramakrishnan & Mayur Shetty, ET Bureau NEW DELHI|MUMBAI: A year after private nuclear plants became a possibility in India following the Indo-US nuclear deal, the insurance regulator is deliberating with companies to cover liabilities arising out of deliberating with companies to cover liabilities arising out of nuclear accidents, which is essential for such plants… Continue reading
India will not ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert India Times 28 Dec 09 Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert28 Dec 2009, 2011 NEW DELHI: A day before leaders of India and Japan hold talks, the prospects of a civil nuclear deal between the two countries receded as a Japanese official Monday urged New Delhi to sign and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. “Japan hopes that India will sign and ratify the CTBT,” Kazuo Kodama, press secretary with Japan’s ministry of foreign affairs, told reporters here.
He was responding to a question on the prospects of Japan supplying civil nuclear technology to India.
Nuclear deal unlikely as Japan sounds CTBT alert- Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times
India soon to get nuclear submarine
India step closer to getting N-sub
THE TIMES OF INDIA 28 Dec 09 NEW DELHI: India got closer to deploying a nuclear-powered submarine by mid-2010 after the Russian Navy formally inducted the Akula-II class attack submarine `K-152 Nerpa’ on Monday. The over 12,000-tonne Nerpa is to be leased to Indian Navy for a 10-year period under a secret contract inked between India and Russia,………….. Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles is critical for India to fulfil its long-standing quest to have a viable nuclear weapon triad — the capability to fire nukes from the air, land and sea.
India step closer to getting N-sub – India – The Times of India
India secretive about its poor nuclear safety record
the United States which singed a nuclear deal with New Delhi last year has been praising India as a responsible atomic actor
INDIA’S NUCLEAR SAFETY A GRAVE THREAT Pakistan Daily Dec 25, 2009 WHY WORLD IS OBLIVIOUS OF INDIAN NUCLEAR DANGERS Although responsible nuclear states have adopted strict measures at their nuclear plants so as to save the lives of their employees and the nearby population, yet India’s record of poor nuclear safety has surprised the international community in the era of ongoing nuclear age. Continue reading
Terrorist plot to target Indian nuclear plant?
Chicagoan Said to Have Helped Terrorists Target Nuclear Plant abcnews.go.com Authorities Say David Headley Cased, Photographed Facility at Tombroy, India, that Produces Plutonium for Nuke Weapons By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSSDec. 20, 2009 The Chicago man charged with helping plot the terror attacks one year ago in Mumbai also photographed and conducted surveillance of a nuclear weapons fuel plant in Tromboy, India, according to Indian and U.S. law enforcement authorities. Continue reading
India going into big debt for nuclear power program
India’s Nuclear Power Plans to Borrow $6.5 Billion By Archana Chaudhary Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) –– Nuclear Power Corp. of India, the nation’s monopoly atomic generator, plans to borrow as much as $6.5 billion to fund six new reactors. The state-run company will raise about 140 billion rupees ($3 billion) from loans and bonds to build four 700-megawatt plants, Chairman Shreyans Kumar Jain said in a phone interview from Mumbai today. It will also seek about $3.5 billion in loans for two 1,000-megawatt reactors it’s developing in Kudankulam with Russia’s Rosatom Corp., he said…… Continue reading
Disarmament Commission treats India and Pakistan equally
Disarmament panel puts India, Pak in same category The Economic Times 16 Dec 2009, A report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament has proposed cutting down the world’s nuclear weapons from 23,000 to 2,000 by 2025 and suggested that all nuclear states should have a ‘no first use’ stance. The commission is actually the brainchild of Japan and Australia. Continue reading
10,000 Young Indians Call for Pause on Nuclear Power
Nuclear option is not for future generations! The Indian Youth-Science Forum. 15 Dec 09
Ten thousand (10,000) young scientists, engineering students and concerned citizens, have, in a Memorandum to Prime Minister who is also Atomic Energy Minister, asked the Government of India to re- assess the futuristic social cost of its ambitious Nuclear Power programme…… Continue reading
Climate Change the opportunity to sell off nuclear to developing countries
The farce in the name of climate change Promoting business interest by other means! Organiser By MD Nalapat -Dec 2009 “………………What is the actual agenda of key delegations to the Copenhagen Conference? The first is the sale of expensive technologies to developing countries, primarily nuclear energy…… Continue reading
India has serious thermo-nuclear bombs
BBC News – North Korea agrees nuclear ‘co-operation’ with US
Kakodkar says India has credible thermo-nuclear bombs in the “plural” NationalNetIndian News Network New Delhi, December 13, 2009 Dr. Anil Kakodkar.Dr. Anil Kakodkar. Former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Anil Kakodkar has asserted that India has credible thermo-nuclear bombs, in the “plural”, with a yield of “much more” than 45 kilotonnes each.”Why are you using singular? Make that plural,” he said when asked if India had a credible thermo-nuclear bomb during an interview with journalist Karan Thapar on the Devil’s Advocate show on television channel CNN-IBN.
US firms charging India high nuclear prices
‘US, European firms quoting higher prices for nuclear equipment’ Business Standard Press Trust of India / New Delhi December Dec 12, 2009 The government today indicated its preference for buying nuclear power equipment for the country’s atomic power projects from Russia, saying US and European companies are quoting higher prices…… Continue reading
India’s nuclear plants will be very slow in coming
India-defers-npower-target-by.15 years to 2035
Natalie Obiko Pearson / Bloomberg 10 Dec 09
Mumbai: India has deferred by 15 years its target to build 40,000MW of nuclear power capacity amid policy delays, an official at a state-owned utility said. Continue reading
Opposition in Indian govt to West Bengal nuclear power plant
No To Haripur Nuclear Power Plant, Says Sisir Adhikar indiaserver.com 2009-12-09
Sisir Adhikari the Union Minister of State for Rural Development said that his party was against the setup of nuclear Power Plant in West Bengal’s Haripur in East Midnapore district. The area is thickly populated and also a fertile region for agriculture. Continue reading
Opposition growing across India to land taken for nuclear plants
Land acquisition problems: Serious concern for the country Agitations over land acquisitions are spreading like wild fire in the country. merinews CJ: Rupam Banerjee Wed, Dec 09, 2009 PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh has expressed serious concern over growing problems of land acquisition for industrial and infrastructural projects in different parts of the country. Continue reading
Time we all woke up to the pro-nuclear con!
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On today’s page I include an article on India and the planned nuclear reactors there. I was struck by the fact that it will be a “multi-billion dollar market to American firms” . But, at the same time, those firms want to make sure that the Indian government (i.e the Indian taxpayer) will pay for any “industrial accident”. (Quote ‘ India’s multi-billion-dollar nuclear market to American firms. US firms already worry over delays such as writing a new Indian law to limit US firms’ liability in case of an industrial accident’)
The nuclear industry wants the money – but not the responsibility. They must think that the danger is important, to be concerning themselves so much about such liability. Yet at the same time, they’ll tell us all that the industry is so very safe.
Do we take note of these contradictions? Is this a new and so much more sophisticated version of Western colonial oppression?
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