NuclearGate: Why the CAG Report on AERB is important
Preliminary comments on the CAG report on AERB by Lalita Ramdas.
View ArticleDiaNuke Documents: CAG Report on Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB)
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View ArticleThe March of Nuclear Folly – Praful Bidwai
The repression, including lethal firing, unleashed on peaceful protesters against the Kudankulam nuclear plant on Monday, on top of FIRs over many months charging thousands with sedition, makes two...
View ArticleStop Kudankulam fuelling, lives are at stake! – Dr. A Gopalakrishnan
The government, through its Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), the Nuclear Power Corporation Limited (NPCIL), and the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) is racing to bring the Kudankulam Nuclear...
View ArticleKoodankulam: Nuclear Power Corrupts Absolutely !
Why is it that instead of addressing the apprehensions of the protesters and putting in place all necessary safeguards to dispel their anxieties, the government has instead unleashed police terror?
View ArticleTarapur, A Ticking Bomb: Dr. A Gopalakrishnan
Courtesy: NewsClick A Gopalakrishnan, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) reveals that US Nuclear Experts & General Electric officials had advised the shutting down of the...
View ArticleTime for You to Move on, Mr. Narayanasamy!
The parallels between the functioning of the Government of Japan (GoJ) pre and post Fukushima and the Government of India (GoI) are uncanny as are the similarities between the functioning of TEPCO and...
View ArticleNuclear Unacountability in India to Drain Rs3.90 lakhs Crores?: Former Power...
Former power secretary Dr. EAS Sarma's letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
View ArticleIndia’s Nuclear Regulator Admits Koodankulam has Sub-standard Equipments,...
PMANE | The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has finally woken up, it seems. They have just acknowledged with great awkwardness. But what an irresponsible and disingenuous explanation to a very...
View ArticleMr. Prime Minister, Here is Yet Another Scam Right Under Your Nose. And It...
EAS Sarma | Both DAE and AERB have been silent on instances of corruption reported from Russia, their possible adverse impact on the quality of the equipment used at Kudankulan and the potential...
View ArticlePushing Koodankulam to Criticality in Undemocratic: Maj Gen. Vombatkere’s...
In pushing KKNPP to criticality before democratically and transparently addressing concerns regarding safety, health and financial costs and nuclear accident liability, the direct responsibility of the...
View ArticleNuclear 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...
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