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Jaitapur’s communities and bio-diverse ecology must count: EAS Sarma raises crucial concerns regarding India’s EPR project

Jaitapur’s communities and bio-diverse ecology must count: EAS Sarma raises crucial concerns regarding India’s EPR project

Editor’s Note: We are publishing below the text of a letter written by (Mr) EAS Sarma, Former Secretary to the Government of India, addressed to the Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy. Sarma raises crucial questions about the EPR reactor technology that has been marred by technical and safety flaws andRead More

Why the DAE and AERB should monitor the situation at Taishan and place pause on India’s own EPR project: Dr EAS Sarma’s open letter

Why the DAE and AERB should monitor the situation at Taishan and place pause on India’s own EPR project: Dr EAS Sarma’s open letter

The reported radiological leak at the EPR-design Taishan nuclear facility in China has caused widespread concern, with the US, France and other countries closely monitoring the unfolding developments. Yet, the Indian government remains tight-lipped. India’s former Union Power Secretary, EAS Sarma who has been consistently drawing attention to the manyRead More

Why is India bent on bailing out the French nuclear industry at the cost of its own citizens’ lives?

Why is India bent on bailing out the French nuclear industry at the cost of its own citizens’ lives?

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. 

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

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

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.