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16 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

Shankar Sharma | The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) seems to get a strange satisfaction in continuing to make such tall claims again and again. Such a tall claim is not the first of its kind. It has been happening since the 1960s.

Even 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. 

Shankar Sharma | Keeping in view the humongous costs associated with the large number of nuclear reactors being built/proposed, the long term implications of these projects on our communities, the global level rejection of nuclear power as a national level energy policy, and the absence of a rational debate on nuclear power policy at the societal level in our country, I would like to emphasise that our country is in urgent need of a diligent examination of all the associated issues by the apex auditing body of the country, and subsequently followed by effective discussions in the Parliament. Such a diligent analysis at a policy level has become an imperative before the country can continue to invest massive capital into the nuclear power sector.