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DiaNuke.org interviewed the eminent environmentalist Vladimir Slivyak whose group EcoDefense has been facing repression in Russia for exposing the lack of nuclear safety and environmental impacts. His report on the status of nuclear industry in Russia, prepared on the request of an environmental group in Africa which is also an important market that the Russian nuclear giant Atomsroyexport is eyeing.

Here is an important report, prepared by an independent agency in Africa where Russia has been trying to find a market, authored by Vladimir Sylvak, an eminent Russian environmentalist associated with EcoDefense. We are posting the main conclusions of the report for the readers of DiaNuke.org.

With all these mounting evidences that substandard equipment and parts have been used at the KKNPP and there have been efforts to gloss over this isuue with the help of Russians and some media companies, the PMANE supports the call for a thorough inquiry and demands complete closure of the KKNPP immediately.

As if he has woken up from a deep slumber, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has questioned the atomic energy department’s decision not to exercise the right to recourse in the event of an accident at the Koodankulam plants. This simply means that the Russian government or their companies have no liability whatsoever for their technology and the equipment.