When India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in the U.S. last week, he reportedly carried a generous gift: an unlimited number of free lives. To be precise, Singh was ready to promise President Obama that should any of the nuclear reactors that India is planning to buy from U.S. companies ever suffer an accident, they will not have to pay anything in damages.
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A Deadly Route
Friday the 26th of July was a red-letter day for many of us. It was the day of the release of the Indian People’s Charter on Nuclear Energy. A clarion call from all of us (and I hope some of you) who truly believe that nuclear power is a deadly route for India to take.
Starting Koodankulam: When deception triumphs
Praful Bidwai India’s nuclear establishment is continuing its march of folly at the expense of safety in the false belief…
Repeating Enron in Jaitapur
The tariff of Rs. 4 per unit of electricity is unrealistic unless the government subsidises the cost of the first two Areva reactors by Rs. 22,000 crore.
Resisting Ecological Transformation: Some Observations in a Post-Fukushima World
Courtesy: Dianuke.org We are re-publishing Dr. M V Ramana’s talk at Panel on “Fighting Ecological Transformation: 20th Century Energy in…