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In support of the people’s movement against nuclear energy!
An interview of Mr. M. Pushparayan, leading activist from Koodankulam
Interview with S. P. Udayakumar by R. Nandalal conducted for a Malayalam newspaper. 1. 1. How did you happen to get involved in the struggle against KKNPP? Can you elaborate on the initial stages of the struggle and on the formation of PMANE? In the late 1980′s, I started “Group [...]
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You are cordially invited for the release of the documentary film “3 mile to Gorakhpur”. The film is directed by Prem Piram and is about the proposed Nuclear Power Plant in Gorakhpur village of Haryana. The film will be followed by a short discussion with people from Gorakhpur village who [...]
Arnold Gundersen is an energy advisor with 39-years of nuclear power engineering experience. A former nuclear industry senior vice president, he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in nuclear engineering, holds a nuclear safety patent, and was a licensed reactor operator.During his nuclear industry career, Arnie managed and coordinated projects [...]
People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) coordinator SP Udayakumar has been at the forefront of the agitation against the Koodankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu. A 12-day fast by the locals ended after the state Cabinet passed a resolution requesting the Centre to stop work at the plant. A delegation [...]
Heidi Hutner is Professor at Stony Brook University. She runs a brilliant blog called Ecofeminist and Mothering Ruminations I have wanted to interview Helen Caldicott for two years, ever since I began my deep interest and research on anti-nuclear issues. Her name, image and ideas were part of my childhood. Both [...]
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Recent Updates from Koodankulam Koodankulam: Lessons from Shoreham where a nuclear power plant was stopped after running just for a day Halt Koodankulam: Jayalalitha’s Letter to the PM Koodankulam Struggle: Justice V R Krishna Iyer Writes to Chief Minister Jayalalita Is Narendra Modi’s fast more important than people’s fast for [...]
The massive earthquake in Japan and the subsequent nuclear crisis has triggered fears of nuclear security across the world, including India. Most of India falls in the moderate risk to very high risk seismic zones and so do a majority of India’s nuclear reactors. While there are no nuclear projects [...]
“The renowned nuclear policy consultant Mycle Schneider has come to the conclusion that there is no nuclear revival, that nuclear’s role in energy generation is declining and that it has little relevance as a tool for avoiding CO2 emissions. For the Germanborn Frenchman, the challenge is elsewhere: to fi [...]
Honest truths, hard facts, and criticisms on India’s nuclear program rang aloud this Wednesday at the Nehru Center in Mumbai, India. These words came neither from an armchair critic nor an environmentalist, but from the man who once headed India’s nuclear program and is still associated with it. He is none [...]
NAPM Andhra Pradesh Chapter along with Sanjeevani Paryavarana Parirakshana Seva Sangham (Srikakulam) and Anu Vidyat Kendram Vyatireka Porata Udyamam undertook a Five day Cycle Yatra in the villages within the 16km radius of the proposed Nuclear Power Park at Kovvada, Ranasthalam Mandal (tehsil), Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh; from 3rd August 2011 [...]
We need to reply this interview. Is it a mere coincidence that after Areva’s Fleet descended on Mumbai, the activist meet was disturbed in Ratnagiri? Areva promising collaboration with Indian companies, partnership for NPCIL in Uranium mining? After GOI’s “education series” run by Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Areva’s “education series” for [...]
While the Japanese government never admitted to this amount of contamination in Tokyo, Prof. Hiroaki Koide measured radiation levels there. He concludes that if Tokyo has been contaminated this much, then ‘areas within Fukushima prefecture must be seriously contaminated’. An old but very relevant interview of Prof. Hiroaki Koide can [...]
NUCLEAR WITNESSES, INSIDERS SPEAK OUT: JOHN W. GOFMAN, MEDICAL PHYSICIST “Licensing a nuclear power plant is in my view, licensing random premeditated murder. First of all, when you license a plant, you know what you’re doing–so it’s premeditated. You can’t say, “I didn’t know.” Second, the evidence on radiation-producing cancer [...]
Activists from 15 countries participating in the Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific meeting held at the Haja Center in Seoul announce a declaration for Nuclear Free Future, June 30. Some activists hold signs reading “Stop Nuclear” in their own language. (Photo by Ryu Woo-jong) The statement: Overcoming [...]
This interview with nuclear specialist Hiroaki Koide was originally posted on September 3, 2007 at gyaku.jp, and can still be found in its original form via the Wayback Machine, as can the script of the original interview in Japanese. (The gyaku.jp domain was not renewed last year.) More [...]
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