Archive for category: Interviews

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  Koodankulam will fight till the reactors are scrapped: Pushparayan

  Interviews January 2, 2012 9:30 pm

  An interview of Mr. M. Pushparayan, leading activist from Koodankulam

   
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  Interview: S P Udayakumar

  Interviews December 2, 2011 12:29 pm

  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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  White man’s tecnology has hurt the Earth badly:Udayakumar

  Community Updates, Interviews October 18, 2011 7:24 am

  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 [...]

   
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  Dr. Helen Caldicott: In Conversation with Heidi Hutner

  Interviews October 15, 2011 10:59 am

  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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  Mycle Schneider: ‘There is no revival of nuclear power”

  Interviews September 12, 2011 12:25 am

    “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 [...]

   
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  India’s Nuclear Future: Dr. M R Srnivasan

  India's Nuclear Expansion, Interviews September 1, 2011 4:40 pm

  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 [...]

   
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  ‘What we will supply Jaitapur would have resisted Fukushima crisis’ – Areva sales pitch to India

  Battleground Jaitapur, Interviews, Jaitapur Updates July 11, 2011 10:02 pm

  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 [...]

   
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  An Ethical Meltdown in Japan: Prof Hiroaki Koide

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Interviews July 10, 2011 5:40 pm

  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 [...]

   
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  Nuclear Witness, Insider speak out: JOHN W. GOFMAN, Medical Physicist

  Documents, Interviews July 7, 2011 10:20 am

  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 [...]

   
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  The Dream of a Nuclear Japan: Interview with Mr. Koide Hiroaki

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Interviews June 13, 2011 3:02 pm

      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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  The state of Nuclear after Fukushima and Germany

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Interviews June 7, 2011 4:42 pm

            Steve Kidd, deputy director general at the World Nuclear Association, takes a look at the long term outlook for nuclear power in a post Fukushima world without Germany as a major player. (Listen to the interview at the original source – Mineweb)   GEOFF CANDY:  [...]

   
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  Interview with Akira Tokuhiro, Nuclear Engineer: Fukushima and the Mass Media

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Interviews, Resources May 20, 2011 12:56 pm

    “Only the mass media can put the kind of pressure on TEPCO and the Japanese government to bring about major change. This will cost at least 10 billion dollars if not 20-30 billion to clean up. It will take at least 10 years if not 20 and roughly 10,000 [...]

   
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  Fukushima Daiichi Is a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’: Prof Michio Kaku

  Fukushima: Updates and Analysis, Interviews April 21, 2011 5:41 am

      The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level.   “Radiation is continuing to leak [...]