Special Report: After Japan, where’s the next nuclear weak link?
Imagine a country where corruption is rampant, infrastructure is very poor, or the quality of security is in question. Now what if that country built a nuclear power plant? Reuter’s Special Report...
View ArticlePeople power will win at Koodankulam
Ramesh Sundara Rajan - I have been born in Kuthenkuly, which is my mother’s native place. Idinthakarai is my father’s native. I have lived there for more than 15 years before re locating to Bangalore....
View ArticleNPCIL Experts, Please Respond !
QUESTIONS TO THE EXPERT COMMITTEE ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR PLANT BY THE PEOPLE Prof. T. Shivaji Rao, Director, Center for Environmental Studies, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam Readers can access some...
View ArticleOn Saying NO to Nuclear Energy: SHIV VISHWANATHAN
It was a world which saw the nuclear regime as normal and it did not make a difference whether it was nuclear energy or nuclear war. Both were necessary and there was nothing as necessary as a...
View ArticleKeeping Silent After Fukushima is Barbaric: Ryuichi Sakamoto
A note of thanks and solidarity from Sakamoto Ryuichi, one of the best and most famous music composers in Japan.
View ArticleNuclear Fuel Complex: Oozing Radiation in Hydebrabad EVERY MINUTE !!
The people and the environment in the vicinity of the NFC are threatened by radioactive and chemical waste. Here is why the NFC must be shifted away from the densely populated locality in Hyderabad:
View ArticleFrom the Archives- Chernobyl, not Peristroika, Caused Soviet Union Collapse:...
The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 26 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the...
View ArticleDepleted Uranium in Iraq: War’s Legacy of Cancer
Contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions and other military-related pollution is suspected of causing a sharp rises in congenital birth defects, cancer cases, and other illnesses throughout...
View ArticleStarting Koodankulam: When deception triumphs
India’s nuclear establishment is continuing its march of folly at the expense of safety in the false belief that atomic power is the energy of the future. It’s not. Nuclear power is in relentless...
View ArticleKoodankulam: Not a Closed Chapter
The government has brushed aside opposition to the plant by arguing that because Rs 17,000 crore have already been spent on the reactor, it has to be commissioned so that the investment already made is...
View ArticleForty years after nuclear tests, frequent cancer deaths in Pokharan
Exactly four decades ago, India conducted its first nuclear test in Pokhran. Though villagers have complained that they are suffering from diseases linked to radiation exposure, the authorities say...
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‘Preservation of Life in a Nuclear Age’: Remembering Joseph Rotblat
One of the most memorable lectures I have attended was a talk by 93-year-old Joseph Rotblat, entitled “Preservation of Life in a Nuclear Age”. Professor Rotblat was a Polish-born British physicist who...
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Delays in the EPR Project in China’s Taishan reveal serious safety issues
admitted to ’partial defects’ in the welding of the three parts of the deaerator. But the state-owned company stressed that the component, which helps cool down the reactor, ’is not part of the nuclear...
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Rooppur Nuclear Project in Bangladesh: Challenging Rosatom’s Claims
On December 25, 2017, an opinion piece was published in The Daily Star by Andrey Shevlyakov titled “Changing perceptions on nuclear energy.” Given the author's institutional position as the acting CEO...
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Geographies of Anti-Nuclear Energy Movements: Resistance Against Nuclear...
An interesting lecture by Viktoria Noka at the University of Glasgow The post Geographies of Anti-Nuclear Energy Movements: Resistance Against Nuclear Waste in Gorleben appeared first on DiaNuke.org.
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Radioactive Racism in Australia: Nuclear War on Aboriginal People
Jim Green | The Western Australian government is in the process of gutting the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 at the behest of the mining industry. Native Title rights were extinguished with the...
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Spread of Radioactive Particles at Hanford: Washington State Health...
A state official, citing elevated readings of radiation across the Hanford site, sends a letter of concern to the federal Energy Department. The post Spread of Radioactive Particles at Hanford:...
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Korea Has Nuclear Plants, Unlike Other Countries That the US has Bombed: What...
All of the recent US-coalition wars have involved countries where there were no– repeat no – large, operating nuclear power plants. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya. The post Korea...
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Aging Nuclear Plants in the US: Environmentalists and Citizens Question...
It's a David-vs-Goliath mismatch when a band of citizens’ groups takes on state government and giant nuclear corporations like Exelon. The Goliaths are used to getting their way. But let’s hope the...
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Electricity from Small Modular Reactors: Hope or Nuclear Mirage?
M. V. Ramana | Courtesy: Energy Studies Institute In October 2017, just after Puerto Rico was battered by Hurricane Maria, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry asked the audience at a conference on...
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