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by Praful Bidwai Economic and Political Weekly January 3, 1987 This article from 1987 describes the planning stages of, and opposition to, the Kaiga Nuclear Atomic Power Station in Karnataka, India. The plant was eventually built in spite of the problems described below. The first three units went critical inRead More

Reprocessing Spent N-Fuel: Neither Safe nor Economical Praful Bidwai The Times of India, November 7, 1983 2017/09/29: This is the first digitized version of an article written by Praful Bidwai in 1983 Recently a Bombay-based weekly paper carried a front-page report which claimed that about six kg of plutonium wasRead More

Here is a video of Praful Bidwai speaking at the protest in Jantar Mantar on january 25th 2014 – declared the National Day of protest against the India-Japan nuclear agreement by the protest groups across India:

Praful Bidwai’s departure has created a huge void. He took on the mighty and well-heeled nuclear establishment of India through his exemplary rigour and finesse. He democratised the Indian discourse on nuclear issues and filled it with people in flesh and blood, without which it would just have been a narrow lane of with nuclear policy elites chatting among themselves.