Nuclear Safety

As France starts investigation into nuclear safety fraud, India must rethink Jaitapur

As France starts investigation into nuclear safety fraud, India must rethink Jaitapur

Letters, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Safety Regulation May 14, 2019 at 3:49 am 0 comments

This week, the French nuclear safety regulator ASN has initiated probe after receiving warnings from whistle-blowers. It should act as an awakening call for the Indian government not only to begin an independent and broad-based investigation on the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project, but also expedite the long-pending process of setting up an independent nuclear sfaety regulator. Former Union Secretary Dr. EAS Sarma has written an open letter to the AEC and the AERB in this regard, that we are sharing.

Full-text: written submission at the public hearing over EIA of the proposed expansion of Kaiga Nuclear Plant

Full-text: written submission at the public hearing over EIA of the proposed expansion of Kaiga Nuclear Plant

Documents, Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety December 24, 2018 at 4:44 am 0 comments

Mr. Shankar Sharma’s critique of the official EIA Report which he presented at the public hearing in Karnataka on December 15, 2018.

On the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster Greenpeace activists on inflatable boats protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, against the plans of the Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom to fuel and activate reactors of the floating NPP “Akademik Lomonosov”. The power station is built at the Baltic Shipyard right in the centre of Russia’s second biggest city, three kilometres away from the Hermitage. Rosatom plans to tow the floating NPP to Russia's Far East and use it for the industrial exploration of the Arctic.

Russia’s Floating Chernobyls: No Lessons Learnt from the Disaster 32 years Ago?

Featured, Nuclear Safety April 26, 2018 at 4:53 pm 0 comments

If this development is not stopped, the next nuclear catastrophe could well be a Chernobyl on ice or a Chernobyl on-the-rocks. 

Debris in Fukushima after the accident in 2011

The nuclear legacy trap: risk and costs of nuclear power

Nuclear Safety April 22, 2018 at 7:17 am 1 comment

Major-General Vinod Saighal | To date, sufficient thought does not seem to have been given to the legacy factor of nuclear reactors being built.

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