Nuclear Secrecy is a National Threat
The consequences of leaving nuclear bosses to their own devices are too dangerous to contemplate.
View ArticleKoodankulam: Not a Closed Chapter
The government has brushed aside opposition to the plant by arguing that because Rs 17,000 crore have already been spent on the reactor, it has to be commissioned so that the investment already made is...
View ArticleNuclear safety in India: silence on the PAC report
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has often claimed that nuclear energy is crucial for the country and his government has announced a massive programme of reactor construction. Leaving aside other problems...
View ArticleIndia’s nuclear disaster preparedness is dysfunctional
Nuclear disaster: Control rooms with no bosses, hotline turned cold. How Ready is India?
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A nuclear ‘Make in India’ will be a disaster: former AERB Chief
A vivid example on how not to ‘Make-in-India’ even a well-established foreign reactors is seen in the continuing problems the Kudankulam VVER reactor Unit-1 is experiencing. The post A nuclear ‘Make in...
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Sham safety regulation, ill-thought expansion plans: former regulator...
The Fukushima accident in Japan in March 2011, led to dramatic course-corrections in various countries having nuclear power plants. India has merely carried out a cursory walk-through inspection of its...
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‘Clearance for Koodankulam 3 and 4 Illegal’: activists say AERB violating its...
Poovulagin Nanbaragal, a Chennai-based environmentalist group that has been at he forefront of the Koodankulam people's struggle against nuclear plant, has opposed the pouring of concrete for Reactor...
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In Kovvada, villagers displaced forcibly even as the prospects of...
While questions about the viability of the project still persist, people of Ranastalam have had to give up their lands. The Andhra Pradesh government announced in December 2017 that the land...
View ArticleAs France starts investigation into nuclear safety fraud, India must rethink...
This week, the French nuclear safety regulator ASN has initiated probe after receiving warnings from whistle-blowers. It should act as an awakening call for the Indian government not only to begin an...
View ArticleIn a Season of Impetuous Lawmaking, whither Nuclear Safety?
Sonali Huria | The Leaflet SINCE returning to power last year with an overwhelming majority in the 2019 general elections, the Modi-led government has passed a series of legislations in rapid...
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