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“Modern medicine does not depend on nuclear power. All electricity producing reactors could be shut down permanently with little or no impact on best medical practices.” – Dr. Gordon Edwards, President, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility

“We, the undersigned, vehemently condemn the tabling of the Atomic Energy Bill, 2025 and the reported amendments to the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 for attracting private investments. We urge opposition parties to use all that is in their power to stop the privatization of the nuclear energy sector. We are appalled and deeply disturbed by the current Government of India abandoning its duty to protect Indian citizens and India’s ecology from these dangers. We demand a shift from authoritarian control of nuclear policy towards a nuclear ‘public’ policy that involves and protects people and the environment from all nuclear/radioactive hazards.”

Dr. Edwards, an expert on nuclear technology, refutes the claims of the nuclear industry as it pushes purportedly “new and improved” nuclear power plants, so-called “advanced” nuclear power plants, and particularly small modular reactors. He explains that these smaller nuclear power plants are not new and not improved, but were “things that were tried 50 and 60 years ago” and didn’t succeed then. Now, he says, with governments prepared to spend “bundles of money…trillions of dollars” to combat climate change, the nuclear industry is wheeling out these old designs to “try to rescue itself from a very rapid decline.”

It is with immense shock and grief that we share with you the news of the untimely passing of Pradeep Indulkar, a friend and co-walker of all of us who believe in a better, more democratic and sustainable world, free of nuclear power.