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Nuclear Energy
Small modular reactors — a radioactive idea
September 29, 2020Helen Caldicott AUSTRALIAN politicians are contemplating developing nuclear power for this country. In their ignorance, they are mooting “small modular reactors” (SMRs) about which they clearly know little. To partly explain their enthusiasm here is the background story. The so-called “nuclear renaissance” died following the Fukushima catastrophe when one-sixth of the world’sRead More
Did you know that Cuban doctors helped save Chernobyl’s children? Watch this webinar to know more
July 19, 2020Covid-19 Exposes Nuclear Sector’s Vulnerabilities in the UK
April 12, 2020‘Disaster Capitalism at its Worst’: Nuclear Industry Lobbies Scramble for Bailout during COVID-19 Crisis
March 26, 2020
Nuclear Power Plants Costlier than Ever: New Research Finds Construction Delays Escalate Cost
May 31, 2018A new analysis of the history of nuclear power plant projects shows since 2010 delays have contributed 18 per cent the costs.
Mounting apprehensions regarding techno-economic feasibility of EPRs: Shankar Sharma’s Letter to the DAE
July 20, 202016 July 2020 To The Secretary Department of Atomic Energy, New Delhi Dr. Jitendra Singh MOS, PMO, New Delhi Honorable Prime Minister Govt. of India, New Delhi Dear Sirs, Greetings from Sagar, Western Ghats, Karnataka. May I draw your kind attention to the latest French Auditor’s report, as in the newsRead More
DAE’s latest tall and hollow claim: 20,000 MW of nuclear power in India over next decade
October 21, 2019Why is India bent on bailing out the French nuclear industry at the cost of its own citizens’ lives?
September 13, 2019Nuclear Energy’s Cost-Benefit Analysis for India: Shankar Sharma’s Letter to the CAG
April 1, 2019
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Full Text: Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 76th A-bomb anniversary
August 10, 2021The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue at a ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city: Courtesy: Mainichi News This year saw the passing of a Catholic monk. Toumei Ozaki spent hisRead More
Why the American Narrative of Hiroshima needs to be dismantled
August 7, 2021Unlike Covid, Nuclear Weapons Leave No Curve to Flatten
April 13, 2020Nuclear Weapons Use in South Asia: Zia Mian’s Lecture at Harvard
February 10, 2020
Full Text: Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 76th A-bomb anniversary
August 10, 2021The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue at a ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city: Courtesy: Mainichi News This year saw the passing of a Catholic monk. Toumei Ozaki spent hisRead More
“We would like France to apologise”: Nuclear test survivors in French Polynesia
July 28, 2020As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings approaches, the legacy of cold war–era French nuclear testing is still in dispute
Full Text: Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 76th A-bomb anniversary
August 10, 2021The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue at a ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city: Courtesy: Mainichi News This year saw the passing of a Catholic monk. Toumei Ozaki spent hisRead More
On 76 years of the Atomic bombing: Lessons from Hiroshima
August 7, 2021Why the American Narrative of Hiroshima needs to be dismantled
August 7, 2021Two Decades Since Pokhran-II Nuclear Tests: A Quick Analytical Survey
November 22, 2020
Full Text: Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 76th A-bomb anniversary
August 10, 2021The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue at a ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city: Courtesy: Mainichi News This year saw the passing of a Catholic monk. Toumei Ozaki spent hisRead More
Environmental Impacts
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India’s unyielding quest for uranium
November 27, 2019
Nuclear Anthropocene
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Fukushima 10 Years On: Peace Boat Report
March 21, 2021
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‘Disaster Capitalism at its Worst’: Nuclear Industry Lobbies Scramble for Bailout during COVID-19 Crisis
March 26, 2020Friends of the Earth on Monday accused the nuclear power industry of exhibiting “disaster capitalism at its worst” after a lobbying group representing it reportedly asked the Trump administration for a 30% percent tax credit amid the coronavirus pandemic and pressed congressional lawmakers to include handouts in stimulus legislation making its way through the House and Senate.
Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations
April 12, 2020A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected or brought in by people from different parts of the prefecture, as well as seawater off the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Fukushima women and children on the frontline: Greenpeace report exposes continued radiation risks on 8 years of nuclear accident
March 10, 2019Banning the bomb, smashing the patriarchy: Ray Acheson’s must-watch TED Talk
January 17, 2019Remembering the ‘anti-nationals’ of Koodankulam: Why criminalisation of dissent has a long and tortured history
September 18, 2018
“We would like France to apologise”: Nuclear test survivors in French Polynesia
July 28, 2020As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings approaches, the legacy of cold war–era French nuclear testing is still in dispute
‘Disaster Capitalism at its Worst’: Nuclear Industry Lobbies Scramble for Bailout during COVID-19 Crisis
March 26, 2020Friends of the Earth on Monday accused the nuclear power industry of exhibiting “disaster capitalism at its worst” after a lobbying group representing it reportedly asked the Trump administration for a 30% percent tax credit amid the coronavirus pandemic and pressed congressional lawmakers to include handouts in stimulus legislation making its way through the House and Senate.
The Chernobyl series, why now?
July 2, 2019Pinar Demircan | Declaring Soviet Russia as the sole perpetrator of the world’s largest nuclear disaster over the Chernobyl series by ignoring nuclear realities to the extent I have described above, shows that the image of the risks on nuclear power plants around the world is tried to be reshaped.
HBO’s Chernobyl: A cautionary tale about splitting atoms, or another chapter of Anti-Russia Propaganda?
June 16, 2019Children of Koodankulam: Growing Up With The Struggle
April 13, 2013The Fission
March 28, 2013
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Nuclear Safety
Missing the (Contaminated) Forest for the (Decontaminated) Trees in Fukushima: Prof Robert Jacobs
September 2, 2021Abstract: This article explores how the models of medical risk from radiation established in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are insufficient for understanding the risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima. These models focus exclusively on levels of external radiation, while the risk facedRead More
In a Season of Impetuous Lawmaking, whither Nuclear Safety?
January 24, 2020Sonali 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 succession without any credible dialogue both within and outside Parliament – amendments to the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, which in effect have diluted the statutory requirementRead More
As France starts investigation into nuclear safety fraud, India must rethink Jaitapur
May 14, 2019AEC calls Kudankulam shut-downs serious, but institutionalised nuclear complacency continues: Dr. EAS Sarma
April 26, 2019‘Confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator’: excerpts from the latest book by former US NRC Chief Gregory Jaczko
January 23, 2019
Namaste Nukes? Trump’s Toxic Sales Pitch for the Stalled Westinghouse Nuclear Project in India
February 29, 2020Kumar Sundaram | Despite the hype that Trump’s recent visit generated – of an upgrade of US-India relations to a ‘Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership’ and so on – there is very little that India stands to gain. In the absence of any new meaningful and people-centric cooperation on trade, environment, education or technology, this nuclear tango will only remain a farcical buildup at the cost of the safety and livelihoods of Indian citizens.
Cyber Vulnerability of Kudankulam Nuclear Plant: Risks More Pronounced than the Current Episode Reveals
October 31, 2019Kumar Sundaram | The NPCIL must come clear on the larger issue of suppliers and systems involved in the KKNPP. Transparency is a pre-requisite when the safety of millions of Indian citizens is at stake. Also, the foreign control of crucial infrastructure is an important aspect that simply cannot be ignored.
Nuclear and Food
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Fukushima: Radiation spreads into Japanese food supply
December 1, 2011
- Fukushima
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- Three Mile Island
- Accidents in India
Nuclear Accidents
Missing the (Contaminated) Forest for the (Decontaminated) Trees in Fukushima: Prof Robert Jacobs
September 2, 2021Abstract: This article explores how the models of medical risk from radiation established in the aftermath of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are insufficient for understanding the risks faced by people in contaminated environments like Fukushima. These models focus exclusively on levels of external radiation, while the risk facedRead More
Chernobyl: DW Documentary on 35 years after the nuclear disaster
April 28, 2021The disaster at Chernobyl is still considered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. It happened on April 26, 1986. Thirty-five years later, a group of survivors returns to the ghost city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine.
40 Years of Three Mile Island Accident: Murderous Legacy Still Threatens Us All
April 6, 2019Harvey Wasserman | Forty years after TMI, the question is: How many more operating nukes will blow up like Fukushima and Chernobyl, or partially melt like Three Mile Island, pouring heat and radiation into the ecosphere?
Cyber Vulnerability of Kudankulam Nuclear Plant: Risks More Pronounced than the Current Episode Reveals
October 31, 2019Kumar Sundaram | The NPCIL must come clear on the larger issue of suppliers and systems involved in the KKNPP. Transparency is a pre-requisite when the safety of millions of Indian citizens is at stake. Also, the foreign control of crucial infrastructure is an important aspect that simply cannot be ignored.
- Koodankulam
- Jaitapur
- Chutka
- Fatehabad
- Kovvada
- Kalpakkam
- Kaiga
- Mithivirdi
- Rawatbhata
- Haripur
India’s Nuclear Facilities
Cyber Vulnerability of Kudankulam Nuclear Plant: Risks More Pronounced than the Current Episode Reveals
October 31, 2019Kumar Sundaram | The NPCIL must come clear on the larger issue of suppliers and systems involved in the KKNPP. Transparency is a pre-requisite when the safety of millions of Indian citizens is at stake. Also, the foreign control of crucial infrastructure is an important aspect that simply cannot be ignored.
Anti-nuke activist, Udayakumar, appeals to Indian President to end ongoing Government witch-hunt
June 13, 2019PMANE Statement against India’s first Away From Reactor (AFR) proposed at Koodankulam
June 5, 2019AEC calls Kudankulam shut-downs serious, but institutionalised nuclear complacency continues: Dr. EAS Sarma
April 26, 2019
Why the DAE and AERB should monitor the situation at Taishan and place pause on India’s own EPR project: Dr EAS Sarma’s open letter
June 23, 2021The reported radiological leak at the EPR-design Taishan nuclear facility in China has caused widespread concern, with the US, France and other countries closely monitoring the unfolding developments. Yet, the Indian government remains tight-lipped. India’s former Union Power Secretary, EAS Sarma who has been consistently drawing attention to the manyRead More
Why is India bent on bailing out the French nuclear industry at the cost of its own citizens’ lives?
September 13, 2019In India’s Jaitapur, fisherfolk take on the world’s largest nuclear power project
April 25, 2019Dear CAG, You Must Probe the Opacity of Modi’s Push for Jaitapur; It Is yet Another Rafale, Only, Much Worse
January 13, 2019
Full text: Indian anti-nuclear groups’ statement on 10 years of the Fukushima accident
March 18, 2021We, the members of various anti-Uranium mining, anti-nuclear power, anti-nuclear bomb groups and movements all over India, would like to express our solidarity with the people of Japan in the wake of the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. The Great East Japan Earthquake disaster had a 9 point (onRead More
Chutka Nuclear Project: Former CM Digvijay Singh Voices Opposition, Will India’s Political Class Wake Up?
February 21, 2018As India Celebrates Republic Day, People in Narmada Valley Boycott Polls Against Chutka Nuclear Plant That Will Displace Them Again
January 27, 2018Nuking Narmada: Adivasis in India Facing Second Displacement, Now for Nuclear Plant
December 20, 2017
Full text: Indian anti-nuclear groups’ statement on 10 years of the Fukushima accident
March 18, 2021We, the members of various anti-Uranium mining, anti-nuclear power, anti-nuclear bomb groups and movements all over India, would like to express our solidarity with the people of Japan in the wake of the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. The Great East Japan Earthquake disaster had a 9 point (onRead More
Fatehabad nuclear project: a Fukushima in the making?
August 28, 2017The nuclear industry has killed more blackbucks than Salman Khan
February 1, 2015Govt must initiate a national debate on nuclear energy – S P Udayakumar
September 23, 2014
Namaste Nukes? Trump’s Toxic Sales Pitch for the Stalled Westinghouse Nuclear Project in India
February 29, 2020Kumar Sundaram | Despite the hype that Trump’s recent visit generated – of an upgrade of US-India relations to a ‘Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership’ and so on – there is very little that India stands to gain. In the absence of any new meaningful and people-centric cooperation on trade, environment, education or technology, this nuclear tango will only remain a farcical buildup at the cost of the safety and livelihoods of Indian citizens.
US Nuclear Reactor Project in India: Anti-Nuke Activists Write to the Consulate
March 18, 2019New Announcement About Sales of US Nuclear Reactors to India: Citizens’ Groups Stand in Opposition
March 15, 2019In Kovvada, villagers displaced forcibly even as the prospects of Westinghouse’s nuclear project remain uncertain
January 19, 2018
129 People Jailed for Protesting Against Kalpakkam Reactor
March 29, 2013In a bid to intimidate fenceline communities living around the Kalpakkam nuclear reactors, the Tamil Nadu Police has jailed 129 people of the 650 that were detained in wedding halls yesterday.
Expansion of Kaiga Nuclear Plant in India: An Open Letter to the Atomic Energy Commission
December 24, 2018Shankar Sharma | Considering all these issues in the overall welfare perspective of the true welfare of the people of Uttara Kannada district, the state of Karnataka and the country, and in the context that nuclear power is the costliest, riskiest and least favored electricity option around the world, and that there are much benign and much less costly options to meet the legitimate demand for electricity in our country, the AEC/DAE should ask NPCIL to withdraw its application for Environmental Clearance to this project proposal.
Karnataka Govt Must Reject the Farcical EIA Report for Kaiga Nuclear Plant’s Expansion: Shankar Sharma
December 17, 2018Kaiga’s EIA Failed to Capture Essential Concerns: Dr. EAS Sarma’s Letter to Dr. K S Parthasarathy on Nuclear Plant’s Expansion
December 17, 2018World’s Only Nuclear Plant in Rainforest: Indian Environmentalists Oppose Kaiga’s Expansion
December 14, 2018
Mithivirdi Anti-Nuke Movement: Where Villagers Defeated A Mighty Corporation Like Westinghouse
July 1, 2017The proposed 6000 MegaWatt (MWe) nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat has now been officially slated for Kovada, Andhra Pradesh. A decade long struggle to save their land has ended in victory for the villagers of the region.
IAEA team raised serious safety issues at Rawatbhata, say activists – The Hindu
November 11, 2012Activist seek “transparent and independent” inspection to address issues of vulnerability and unaccountability.
People’s movement against nuclear project in Haripur: a must-watch documentary
May 3, 2017Courtesy: Alternative Media Initiative People’s movement against nuclear project in Haripur: a must-watch documentary
Lessons from the Haripur anti-nuclear struggle
September 7, 2011
Uranium Mining
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India’s unyielding quest for uranium
November 27, 2019
Reprocessing
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Reprocessing Spent N-Fuel: Neither Safe nor Economical
September 29, 2017
Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us
January 25, 2021Sonali Huria| The Leaflet THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More
Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us
January 25, 2021Sonali Huria| The Leaflet THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More
Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us
January 25, 2021Sonali Huria| The Leaflet THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More
Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us
January 25, 2021Sonali Huria| The Leaflet THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More
Nuclear Safety Regimes and India: What the Silence on the latest Fukushima Crisis Tells Us
January 25, 2021Sonali Huria| The Leaflet THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More
Greenpeace Report on 10 Years of Fukushima Nuclear Accident
March 6, 2021Greenpeace International has actively documented the unfolding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster since the accident occurred in March 2011. Greenpeace has released an important report on the occasion of the 10th year anniversary of an ongoing accident that is far from ‘resolved’.
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk in South Asia: New SIPRI Report
April 24, 2020‘Nuclear Exnovation’: Europe Stares at Massive Phaseouts as its Reactors Age, says new Report
April 21, 2020How Nuclear Power Powers the Bomb – IPPNW Germany Report
October 21, 2019
Noam Chomsky: The Myth of “Usable” Nuclear Weapons
July 2, 2019Noam Chomsky sits down with Lawrence Krauss in this episode of The Origins Podcast:
Consequences of Nuclear Tests, Pokhran and Beyond: An Interview with Prof. Robert Jacobs
May 26, 2019Watch: DiaNuke Interviews Mani Shankar Aiyar on 30 Years of the Rajiv Gandhi Action Plan for Nuclear Disarmament
June 26, 2018Kudankulam is on way to Chernobyl: interview with V T Padmanabhan
May 15, 2018
Full Text: Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 76th A-bomb anniversary
August 10, 2021The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 9 by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue at a ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city: Courtesy: Mainichi News This year saw the passing of a Catholic monk. Toumei Ozaki spent hisRead More
Uranium Atlas 2020: A global map of uranium mines that also tells you about their environmental and social costs
July 17, 2020[Final Statement] Online World Conference 2020: Abolish Nuclear Weapons; Resist and Reverse the Climate Crisis; For Social and Economic Justice
May 4, 2020Nuclear Free India: Read the Chernobyl Anniversary Special Issue, 2019
April 26, 2019
Fukushima’s Nuclear Samurai
September 27, 2020After a devastating earthquake hit off the coast of Japan, what would follow would be a devastating tsunami that nearly leveled the nuclear reactor at Fukushima. In order for the nuclear plant to keep from exploding, brave scientists decided it was their duty to stay and work in shifts 24 hours a day until the nuclear reactor could be sustained and repaired. Check out this incredible story of selflessness and bravery, in the true way of the samurai!
Climate change and nuclear justice intersect: Marshall Islands Ambassador Tony De Brum
August 28, 2020Ignominious Anniversary: Remembering Hiroshima
August 9, 202075 Years After First Nuclear Explosion, Apocalypse Still Looms
July 18, 2020Uranium Atlas 2020: A global map of uranium mines that also tells you about their environmental and social costs
July 17, 2020
Why is India bent on bailing out the French nuclear industry at the cost of its own citizens’ lives?
September 13, 2019Even as the French nuclear regulator ASN has put the nuclear power company EDF on a safety watch after repeated warning in recent years about vulnerabilities in the EPR design, the Modi government in India continues to push for the purchase of 6 EPRs for setting up in Jaitapur. We are publishing this open letter written by the former Union Power Secretary Dr. EAS Sarma to the Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in this context. The letter deserves wider circulation.
Anti-nuke activist, Udayakumar, appeals to Indian President to end ongoing Government witch-hunt
June 13, 2019As France starts investigation into nuclear safety fraud, India must rethink Jaitapur
May 14, 2019AEC calls Kudankulam shut-downs serious, but institutionalised nuclear complacency continues: Dr. EAS Sarma
April 26, 2019
Irradiated Lives: Contractual Workers at the Rawatbhata Nuclear Power Plant
September 12, 2012Fact finding report on casual workers in Rawatbhata.
Awakening: Songs for Social and Environmental Justice
October 17, 2011
In Pictures: Massive “No Nukes Day” Demonstration in Tokyo- 28 June 2014
June 30, 2014On this Saturday, 28th June, over five thousands of people gathered at Meiji park in Tokyo and made a big demonstration called ” No Nukes Day” , protesting against the restart of operation in Sendai nuclear power plant, in Kushu. It has been raining from the morning on that day, but after starting the march at 14:30 it stopped raining and they started marching for approx. 3 km from Meiji park to Yoyogi park. They walked through the weekend Tokyo town raising their voices against restart of all nuclear power plants in Japan and made a strong appeal to people around the town.
Koodakulam: Latest Pictures
May 11, 2012Koodankulam: A Photo Story
March 20, 2012Struggle in Koodankulam: In Pictures
October 31, 2011
In Pictures: Massive “No Nukes Day” Demonstration in Tokyo- 28 June 2014
June 30, 2014On this Saturday, 28th June, over five thousands of people gathered at Meiji park in Tokyo and made a big demonstration called ” No Nukes Day” , protesting against the restart of operation in Sendai nuclear power plant, in Kushu. It has been raining from the morning on that day, but after starting the march at 14:30 it stopped raining and they started marching for approx. 3 km from Meiji park to Yoyogi park. They walked through the weekend Tokyo town raising their voices against restart of all nuclear power plants in Japan and made a strong appeal to people around the town.
Koodakulam: Latest Pictures
May 11, 2012Koodankulam: A Photo Story
March 20, 2012Struggle in Koodankulam: In Pictures
October 31, 2011
