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Appeal to Anna Hazare: Please Speak Out on the Killer Nuclear Reactors

Appeal to Anna Hazare: Please Speak Out on the Killer Nuclear Reactors

Antinuclear Movement, Koodankulam June 12, 2012 at 9:15 am 0 comments

Dr.Manmohan Singh as an Individual may have good conduct and character certificate. But as Prime Minister he has taken very many wrong decisions which amount to his abetting several crimes against millions of people of India.

Mr Prime Minister, Importing Nuclear Reactors Is Bad Economics !

Mr Prime Minister, Importing Nuclear Reactors Is Bad Economics !

I feel particularly distressed that your government should repeatedly mock at the meagre food subsidies being given to the poorest of the poor in the country, in the name of “good economics’ and, at the same time, without batting an eye lid, dole out billions of rupees of subsidies to the foreign reactor-supplier MNCs both openly and clandestinely. It is all the more disturbing that your government should refuse to look at several cost effective, environmentally benign alternatives to nuclear power, just to help the foreign MNCs.

GE plan followed with inflexibility

GE plan followed with inflexibility

Alternatives July 14, 2011 at 10:50 am 0 comments

Tepco wouldn’t change blueprint that left emergency backups vulnerable. July 14, 2011 By REIJI YOSHIDA   Yukiteru Naka, a former employee of General Electric who took part in designing and operating reactor units 1, 2 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is just one of aRead More

How Nuclear Power Works

How Nuclear Power Works

Resources May 6, 2011 at 1:28 am 0 comments

(Courtesy: Union of Concerned Scientist shttp://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_technology/how-nuclear-power-works.html)   How Nuclear Power Works Principles of Nuclear Power Atoms are constructed like miniature solar systems. At the center of the atom is the nucleus, and orbiting around it are electrons. The nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons, very densely packed together. Hydrogen,Read More