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While questions about the viability of the project still persist, people of Ranastalam have had to give up their lands. The Andhra Pradesh government announced in December 2017 that the land acquisition for the project was completed successfully.

The largest nuclear power plant in Europe is just two hundred kilometres from the frontlines of the Russian war against Ukraine. This same plant is operating dangerously close to the end of its designed lifespan, but the Ukrainian government is pushing to keep it alive, without informing the public.

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.

It is time that the Parliament and the people of India raise the same questions that Japan’s Independent Commission addressed the authorities in Japan. One should not be surprised to find that the situation in India is no better than in Japan. Fukushimas are waiting to happen on our own soil.