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S P Udayakumar | When the Supreme Court gave a green signal to the Koodankulam reactors 1 & 2, it laid out 15 conditions for the nuclear department to fulfil and building a Deep Geological Repository (DGR) by 2018 was one of them. When there was no progress on this, Poovulagin Nanbargal (Friends of the Earth) in Chennai approached the SC again and the nuclear department sought additional time. On July 2, 2018 the SC granted time until April 30, 2022. But nothing has happened on the DGR front so far.

Sonali Huria| The Leaflet  THE new year has begun on a grim note with a toxic gas leak at the Rourkela Steel Plant in Odisha on 6 January, which claimed the lives of four contractual workers. This is the latest in a disconcerting string of industrial accidents in India over the last fewRead More

In the graphic report linked below the description of “reprocessing” irradiated nuclear fuel refers to dissolving the solid fuel in nitric acid, thereby creating a corrosive and fiercely radioactive liquid. That is indeed how most reprocessing in other countries has so far taken place.

Statement of the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) against India’s first Away From Reactor Spent Fuel Storage Facility (AFR) proposed to be set up at the Koodankulam power project site