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Villagers in Ratnagiri swing between hope, despair and apathy as they continue their resistance against the Jaitapur nuclear power project, slated to be the world's biggest. In this photo: The fishing village of Sakhari Nate that is now at the forefront of the anti-Jaitapur agitation. (Satish Bate/HT)

​Was Jaitapur site given clearance without conclusive studies, asks Greenpeace

Latest January 24, 2016 at 12:55 pm 0 comments

There are close to 16 fault lines near the Jaitapur nuclear project site, according to a 2006 Geological Survey of India. While the project has been given an ‘in-principle’ site approval, and the preliminary construction has already started at the site, the report commissioned by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in 2002 has been under review for 10 years now.

Shinzo Abe’s India visit: 13 villages in Jaitapur oppose nuclear project, pass resolution [Full Text]

Shinzo Abe’s India visit: 13 villages in Jaitapur oppose nuclear project, pass resolution [Full Text]

Latest November 30, 2015 at 6:51 pm 0 comments

13 villages in Jaitapur passed a unanimous resolution against the proposed nuclear plant, being built by French company Areva. For this nuclear project to take off, the India-Japan nuclear agreement is an essential step as the reactor design would use some crucial component manufactured by Japanese company Mitsubishi. This agreement is expected to be signed during the upcoming visit of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to New Delhi next month and the villagers have announced a protest demonstration on the occasion to be organised on 12th December.

A Dornier surveillance aircraft deployed by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) flies over hundreds of anti-nuclear activists as they take to the water during a 'Jal Satyagraha,' a protest by standing in the sea, demanding that uranium fuel is not loaded in the nuclear reactor of Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) on the beach at Idinthakarai village in southern Tamil Nadu on September 13, 2012.  India's Supreme Court refused on Thursday a plea for an interim order to block the loading of uranium fuel rods at a nuclear plant in southern India amid fresh protests against the facility.  AFP PHOTO        (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)

2 years on, Kudankulam isn’t working. Where are its cheerleaders now?

Latest October 27, 2015 at 1:00 pm 0 comments

Kudankulam’s atomic reactor has barely ever worked in its 2-year existence. Despite all the repression and fanfare before its commissioning, the nuclear project is turning out to be a complete dud. Why was it such a big deal then?

Fisherfolk in Sakhri Nate protesting against Areva's project

Jaitapur: what the Areva’s EPR nuclear project endangers

Videos September 24, 2015 at 11:55 am 0 comments

A must-watch video from Fountainink Magazine on what’s really at stake in India’s Jaitapur where Areva is constructing the world’s largest nuclear power park.