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Women under the age of 60, who live downwind from the Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in North Wales (pictured) are at five times greater risk of developing breast cancer, experts have warned.

Breast cancer risks upto 5 times higher near nuclear plants, finds a UK study

Nuclear power station cancer warning: Breast cancer rates are FIVE TIMES higher at Welsh plant – and twice as high at Essex and Somerset sites, experts reveal.

Kovvada: a wake-up call?

Kovvada: a wake-up call?

Kovvada, Must Reads October 17, 2014 at 11:39 am 0 comments

Just about 68 km from Visakhapatnam, the Kovvada village in Srikakulam lies in ruins. Rows of hutments here have been swept away and dozens of boats lining the shore have been damaged in the razing Hudhud that took the coastal belt by `storm’ on Sunday. Still shaken by its impact, people here are now struggling to bounce back to normalcy, while dreading to wonder just what the scale of destruction at the site would’ve been had the proposed Kovvada Nuclear Power Plant come up in the area by now! First given shape close to a decade ago, this project has been firmed up by the Centre over the past three-four years, with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL), in 2013, even going ahead and enhancing the capacity of the proposed plant from the initial 6,000 MW to 10,000 MV. To be spread over 2,000 acres (roughly), the plant is likely to adversely affect four villages -Pedda Kovvada-Chinna Kovvada, Ramachandrapuram, Tekkali and Guddem -that house over 3,000 people.

Mithivirdi Nuclear Project: 4,500 people of 28 villages Walk Out from Farcical Environmental Hearing

Mithivirdi Nuclear Project: 4,500 people of 28 villages Walk Out from Farcical Environmental Hearing

Antinuclear Movement, Mithivirdi March 6, 2013 at 11:25 am 0 comments

Illegal Public Hearing held on 5-3-2013 at 10-30 a.m. at Navagam (Nana) for Mithi Virdi Nuclear Power Plant in violation of Environmental Laws and the Constitution of India.

Why are the USA, France, Russia… pushing for the expansion of nuclear energy in India?

Why are the USA, France, Russia… pushing for the expansion of nuclear energy in India?

Industry and Lobbies, Koodankulam June 17, 2012 at 9:25 pm 1 comment

The urgency for Indians, is to NOT enter the club, to not become the
LAST LENDER when everyone else is scrambling, officially or
unofficially, to just get out.