Post-Fukushima, the market for nuclear power is changing latitudes. Here’s what’s at stake: As the full cost of the Fukushima nuclear accident continues to climb—Japanese officials now peg it at $64 billion or more—nuclear power’s future is literally headed south. Developed countries are slowing or shuttering their nuclear-power programs, while [...]
As they say “War is too important to be left to the Generals”, the decision on Nuclear Power is too critical from the perspective of the overall welfare of our communities to be decided by a handful of people in the nuclear establishment.
When the Central Government’s Expert Group and the Tamil Nadu Team met for the first time on November 8, 2011, our representatives asked for the following documents with regards to the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP): the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Site Evaluation Study, Safety Analysis Report, VVER Performance Report and all other relevant documents for reactors 1 and 2.
The fundamental belief that “Nuclear power is our gateway to a prosperous future” (Kalam’s title) is based on 60 years old presumption when Homi J. Bhabha believed that the Nuclear power “would be so cheap not to meter.”
Interestingly , APJ Abdul Kalam neither came empty handed , nor alone . He came with media , and came with a hidden agenda . He knew , that his face , gestures or assurance will not be enough to change the “dynamics”.
Those of us in the Japanese society cannot export overseas our daily suffering from radioactive contamination as a result of the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Kenji Urata October 05, 2011 The Two Sides of a Damoclean Sword Szczecin, Poland is one hour by car from Berlin’s Tegel Airport, and it is also a stone’s throw from the Baltic. This June, the General Assembly of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) was held [...]
The nuclear-power industry was considered to be one of Japan’s declining industries, at least until the Democratic Party’s government turned the tables on this bleak situation in 2009. After 77 industry leaders and scholars, including former diplomat Kaneko Kumao, presented a proposal placing ‘nuclear power … at the heart of [...]
By STEVE BREYMAN The German Parliament voted last week to phase-out nuclear power by 2022. Thus far lacking a legislative commitment, Prime Minister Naoto Kan says even resource-poor Japan should wean itself from nuclear power. Seventy percent of Japanese parliamentarians agree with him. What is it about World [...]
LEAD IN ITS WINGS Unlike the Chernobyl catastrophe of 1986 which was easy to shrug off as a faraway Soviet disaster with only “minor fallout impacts”, by political deciders and government-friendly media in the most extremely nuclear-committed Western democracies, especially France, the March 2011 Fukushima disaster is a paradigm changer. [...]
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