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India lost its pioneer anti-nuclear activist and eminent Gandhian Shri Narayan Desai last month. Narayan bhai founded ‘Anumukti’ (freedom from nuclear) after Chernobyl which became India’s first anti-nuclear magazine.

Developing closer relations between our two countries is a desirable goal. However, for this to happen on a healthy durable basis, it is necessary that people’s wishes are listened to and their long term interests protected. Selling nuclear components to help facilitate setting up of nuclear power plants is not the way. This is doubly so, when India has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and is actively engaged in the production of nuclear weapons. The wellbeing of future generations should not be sacrificed for short term commercial gains.

Dr.  Surendra Gadekar’s  point-by-point refutation of “Koodankulam is safe bet” by Dr M R Srinivasan, Former Chairman and current member of the Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. Gadekar’s responses are given below in bold type-font with specific paragraphs of Dr. Srinivasan’s article: The desk editor who chose this headline for DrRead More

    The short answer to this question is: Never. We are a country whose elites, irrespective of political views, are already sold on the idea that “The country needs hundreds of thousands of Megawatts of new electrical power and there is no alternative but nuclear to get us there.”Read More