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In Pictures: Massive “No Nukes Day” Demonstration in Tokyo- 28 June 2014. June 30, 2014. On this Saturday, 28th June, over five thousands of people gathered at Meiji park in Tokyo and made a big demonstration called ” No Nukes Day” , protesting against the restart of operation in Sendai nuclear power plant, in Kushu. FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger ACCIDENTS AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN INDIA Accidents at nuclear power plants in India. Below is a list of leaks, fires and structural damages that have occurred in India’s civilian nuclear power sector. Numerous other examples of oil leaks, hydrogen leaks, fires and high bearing vibrations have often shut plants, and sometimes not (1). As the Department of Atomic Energy is not obliged NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS: LISTED AND RANKED SINCE We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km SO, HOW MANY BANANAS ARE EQUAL TO CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA Jim Green | Combined, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima is estimated at 648,000 person-Sieverts. Exposure from eating a banana is estimated at between 0.09-2.3 microSieverts. Let's use a figure of 0.1 microSievert per banana. Thus, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima equates to 6,480,000,000,000 Banana Equivalent Doses - that's 6.48 trillion bananas or, if you prefer, 6.48 terabananas or ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT IN JAPAN: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL The Institute of East Asian Studies In the University of California, Berkeley organised a conference on April 20-21, 2012. The theme of the conference was “Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the 3/11 Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” An interesting paper titled “Historical Background of the Fukushima Accident and the Anti-nuclear Movement in Japan” was FIJI: BRITISH AND US NUCLEAR TESTS OF 1950S CONTINUES TO Between 1957 and 1958, Fijian soldiers participated in the nine UK nuclear weapons tests at Malden and Kiritimati (Christmas) Islands, now part of the Republic of Kiribati. Test veterans, including Fijians, and civilian survivors claim their health (as well as their descendants’) was adversely affected by exposure to ionizing

radiation.

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In Pictures: Massive “No Nukes Day” Demonstration in Tokyo- 28 June 2014. June 30, 2014. On this Saturday, 28th June, over five thousands of people gathered at Meiji park in Tokyo and made a big demonstration called ” No Nukes Day” , protesting against the restart of operation in Sendai nuclear power plant, in Kushu. FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger ACCIDENTS AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN INDIA Accidents at nuclear power plants in India. Below is a list of leaks, fires and structural damages that have occurred in India’s civilian nuclear power sector. Numerous other examples of oil leaks, hydrogen leaks, fires and high bearing vibrations have often shut plants, and sometimes not (1). As the Department of Atomic Energy is not obliged NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS: LISTED AND RANKED SINCE We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km SO, HOW MANY BANANAS ARE EQUAL TO CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA Jim Green | Combined, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima is estimated at 648,000 person-Sieverts. Exposure from eating a banana is estimated at between 0.09-2.3 microSieverts. Let's use a figure of 0.1 microSievert per banana. Thus, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima equates to 6,480,000,000,000 Banana Equivalent Doses - that's 6.48 trillion bananas or, if you prefer, 6.48 terabananas or ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT IN JAPAN: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL The Institute of East Asian Studies In the University of California, Berkeley organised a conference on April 20-21, 2012. The theme of the conference was “Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the 3/11 Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” An interesting paper titled “Historical Background of the Fukushima Accident and the Anti-nuclear Movement in Japan” was FIJI: BRITISH AND US NUCLEAR TESTS OF 1950S CONTINUES TO Between 1957 and 1958, Fijian soldiers participated in the nine UK nuclear weapons tests at Malden and Kiritimati (Christmas) Islands, now part of the Republic of Kiribati. Test veterans, including Fijians, and civilian survivors claim their health (as well as their descendants’) was adversely affected by exposure to ionizing

radiation.

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Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations April 12, 2020. A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS: LISTED AND RANKED SINCE We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND NUCLEAR POWER: A MELTDOWN OF David Ropeik (Article Courtesy- Big Think) The Fukushima nuclear disaster has offered the world a lot of important lessons. We can only hope that one of the most importanta lesson that’s staring us all in the facewill be taken to heart by the culture of government officials, and business people, and scientists and engineers, who regulate and run today’s nuclear energy systems, worldwide. WATER BALANCE SHEET OF KOODANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS he campus of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plants (KKNPP) located on the Bay of Bengal coast in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu does not have adequate reserve of water and an assured fresh water source to effectively cool the reactor. Commissioning of the reactor in this condition may turn out to be catastrophic. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE CHERNOBYL ANIMAL Anne Marie Helmenstine | ThoughtCo. The 1986 Chernobyl accident resulted in one of the highest unintentional releases of radioactivity in history. The graphite moderator of reactor 4 was exposed to air and ignited, shooting plumes of radioactive fallout across what is now Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and Europe. While few people live near Chernobyl now, animalsRead More THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of SECRET CHERNOBYL DOCUMENTS EXPOSE THE COVER-UP In 1990, journalist Alla Yaroshinskaya came across secret documents about the Chernobyl catastrophe that revealed a massive cover-up operation and a calculated policy of disinformation. The state and party leadership had knowingly played down the extent of the contamination and offered a sanitized version to the outside world. In 1991, five years after the accident, a series of laws was I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More EXPORTING DISASTER: THE COST OF SELLING CANDU REACTORS The Indian reactor was part of an aid program organized under the Colombo Plan Administration. The total cost of the reactor was about $17 million, of which the Canadian government provided $9.5 million as foreign aid under the Colombo Plan. The reactor was known as CIRUS (Canada-India-Reactor-United States).

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations April 12, 2020. A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NUCLEAR TEST SITES? Nuclear testing ended over 20 years ago but the legacy of the test areas still remains and will do for hundreds or thousands of years. 8 countries have actively tested nuclear weapons, some in their own backyard if it was big enough like the Soviet Union and the US but they also used others peoples backyards in the Pacific, the British and French did this. NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS: LISTED AND RANKED SINCE We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of SINOP NUCLEAR PLANT: TURKEY SEEKS AN EIA WITHOUT A COMPANY 1 million trees cut down for a final repository. In Sinop, the first movement that paved the way for the environmental massacre for this project was the transfer of 10 square kilometers of land from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to the Ministry of Energy.In the area of 1415 stadiums, nearly 1 million trees were cut without showing any sign of remorse. EVACUATION IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS: LESSONS FROM FUKUSHIMA The main responses to a nuclear disaster are shelter, evacuation and stable iodine prophylaxis. The most important, in terms of preventing future cancer epidemics, is evacuation. This article is based on North American evacuation plans. Little is known of UK emergency evacuation

plans as few, if

THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND NUCLEAR POWER: A MELTDOWN OF David Ropeik (Article Courtesy- Big Think) The Fukushima nuclear disaster has offered the world a lot of important lessons. We can only hope that one of the most importanta lesson that’s staring us all in the facewill be taken to heart by the culture of government officials, and business people, and scientists and engineers, who regulate and run today’s nuclear energy systems, worldwide. CIA'S LOST PLUTONIUM IN THE HIMALAYAS: RADIOACTIVE FOR Legacy of CIA Himalayan Operation Could Imperil Millions. Courtesy: The Progressive Talk about harebrained schemes. The CIA has had its share of dimwitted operations (the plot to make Castro’s beard fall off comes to mind), but an expedition to plant a nuclear-powered sensor on a 25,000-foot-plus mountain in the Himalayas is in a league

of its own.

ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT IN JAPAN: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL The Institute of East Asian Studies In the University of California, Berkeley organised a conference on April 20-21, 2012. The theme of the conference was “Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the 3/11 Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” An interesting paper titled “Historical Background of the Fukushima Accident and the Anti-nuclear Movement in Japan” was SO, HOW MANY BANANAS ARE EQUAL TO CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA Jim Green | Combined, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima is estimated at 648,000 person-Sieverts. Exposure from eating a banana is estimated at between 0.09-2.3 microSieverts. Let's use a figure of 0.1 microSievert per banana. Thus, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima equates to 6,480,000,000,000 Banana Equivalent Doses - that's 6.48 trillion bananas or, if you prefer, 6.48 terabananas or

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations April 12, 2020. A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NUCLEAR TEST SITES? Nuclear testing ended over 20 years ago but the legacy of the test areas still remains and will do for hundreds or thousands of years. 8 countries have actively tested nuclear weapons, some in their own backyard if it was big enough like the Soviet Union and the US but they also used others peoples backyards in the Pacific, the British and French did this. NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS: LISTED AND RANKED SINCE We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of SINOP NUCLEAR PLANT: TURKEY SEEKS AN EIA WITHOUT A COMPANY 1 million trees cut down for a final repository. In Sinop, the first movement that paved the way for the environmental massacre for this project was the transfer of 10 square kilometers of land from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to the Ministry of Energy.In the area of 1415 stadiums, nearly 1 million trees were cut without showing any sign of remorse. EVACUATION IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS: LESSONS FROM FUKUSHIMA The main responses to a nuclear disaster are shelter, evacuation and stable iodine prophylaxis. The most important, in terms of preventing future cancer epidemics, is evacuation. This article is based on North American evacuation plans. Little is known of UK emergency evacuation

plans as few, if

THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND NUCLEAR POWER: A MELTDOWN OF David Ropeik (Article Courtesy- Big Think) The Fukushima nuclear disaster has offered the world a lot of important lessons. We can only hope that one of the most importanta lesson that’s staring us all in the facewill be taken to heart by the culture of government officials, and business people, and scientists and engineers, who regulate and run today’s nuclear energy systems, worldwide. CIA'S LOST PLUTONIUM IN THE HIMALAYAS: RADIOACTIVE FOR Legacy of CIA Himalayan Operation Could Imperil Millions. Courtesy: The Progressive Talk about harebrained schemes. The CIA has had its share of dimwitted operations (the plot to make Castro’s beard fall off comes to mind), but an expedition to plant a nuclear-powered sensor on a 25,000-foot-plus mountain in the Himalayas is in a league

of its own.

ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT IN JAPAN: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL The Institute of East Asian Studies In the University of California, Berkeley organised a conference on April 20-21, 2012. The theme of the conference was “Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the 3/11 Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” An interesting paper titled “Historical Background of the Fukushima Accident and the Anti-nuclear Movement in Japan” was SO, HOW MANY BANANAS ARE EQUAL TO CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA Jim Green | Combined, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima is estimated at 648,000 person-Sieverts. Exposure from eating a banana is estimated at between 0.09-2.3 microSieverts. Let's use a figure of 0.1 microSievert per banana. Thus, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima equates to 6,480,000,000,000 Banana Equivalent Doses - that's 6.48 trillion bananas or, if you prefer, 6.48 terabananas or

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations April 12, 2020. A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NUCLEAR TEST SITES? Nuclear testing ended over 20 years ago but the legacy of the test areas still remains and will do for hundreds or thousands of years. 8 countries have actively tested nuclear weapons, some in their own backyard if it was big enough like the Soviet Union and the US but they also used others peoples backyards in the Pacific, the British and French did this. NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS: LISTED AND RANKED SINCE We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of SINOP NUCLEAR PLANT: TURKEY SEEKS AN EIA WITHOUT A COMPANY 1 million trees cut down for a final repository. In Sinop, the first movement that paved the way for the environmental massacre for this project was the transfer of 10 square kilometers of land from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to the Ministry of Energy.In the area of 1415 stadiums, nearly 1 million trees were cut without showing any sign of remorse. EVACUATION IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS: LESSONS FROM FUKUSHIMA The main responses to a nuclear disaster are shelter, evacuation and stable iodine prophylaxis. The most important, in terms of preventing future cancer epidemics, is evacuation. This article is based on North American evacuation plans. Little is known of UK emergency evacuation

plans as few, if

THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND NUCLEAR POWER: A MELTDOWN OF David Ropeik (Article Courtesy- Big Think) The Fukushima nuclear disaster has offered the world a lot of important lessons. We can only hope that one of the most importanta lesson that’s staring us all in the facewill be taken to heart by the culture of government officials, and business people, and scientists and engineers, who regulate and run today’s nuclear energy systems, worldwide. CIA'S LOST PLUTONIUM IN THE HIMALAYAS: RADIOACTIVE FOR Legacy of CIA Himalayan Operation Could Imperil Millions. Courtesy: The Progressive Talk about harebrained schemes. The CIA has had its share of dimwitted operations (the plot to make Castro’s beard fall off comes to mind), but an expedition to plant a nuclear-powered sensor on a 25,000-foot-plus mountain in the Himalayas is in a league

of its own.

ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT IN JAPAN: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL The Institute of East Asian Studies In the University of California, Berkeley organised a conference on April 20-21, 2012. The theme of the conference was “Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the 3/11 Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” An interesting paper titled “Historical Background of the Fukushima Accident and the Anti-nuclear Movement in Japan” was SO, HOW MANY BANANAS ARE EQUAL TO CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA Jim Green | Combined, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima is estimated at 648,000 person-Sieverts. Exposure from eating a banana is estimated at between 0.09-2.3 microSieverts. Let's use a figure of 0.1 microSievert per banana. Thus, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima equates to 6,480,000,000,000 Banana Equivalent Doses - that's 6.48 trillion bananas or, if you prefer, 6.48 terabananas or

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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October 25, 2020. The coming into effect of the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will empower and breathe new life into the struggles of affected communities, destroyed landscapes and smaller countries for a nuclear-free world. On 65 Years of the Russel-Einstein

Manifesto for a

FUKUSHIMA PLANT SITE ORIGINALLY WAS A HILL SAFE FROM Fukushima plant site originally was a hill safe from tsunami. By REIJI YOSHIDA and TAKAHIRO FUKADA. July 13, 2011. Ground zero: Bulldozers (top) take the top off a 35-meter bluff to prepare the site for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the late 1960s in this image taken from the documentary "Reimei" ("Dawn"). LIFE IN POKHARAN: RESIDENTS OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR TEST SITE The test involved five nuclear-bomb detonations, and was the second of the two nuclear tests India has conducted at the Indian army’s test range in Pokhran. The first, code-named Smiling Buddha, was held in 1974. At the time, people from villages surrounding the range were largely unaware of the explosion until it was announced on the radio. But the 1998 test was carried out on a much larger WHAT IF ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS EXPLODED AT ONCE? What if all of these power plants exploded at the same time? Life would become a daily struggle for survival, all while being stalked by an invisible predator. Radiation. The Earth would be one giant exclusion zone, a highly radioactive realm filled with danger and contamination, that we are forbidden to enter. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of FACTS ON KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT 3 Thus the population falling within the exclusion zone, if any, is only resettled. The sterilized zone is the annulus between the exclusion zone and an area up to 5 km THE TOP 10 PRO-NUCLEAR ARGUMENTS ON RADIATION...ANSWERED The Top 10 Pro-Nuclear Arguments on RadiationAnswered. by Dr. John W. Gofman (Courtesy: NoNuclear.Net) ARGUMENT 1: We receive more radiation sitting in our living rooms than is given off by nuclear power plants. A brick wall puts out 3.5 millirems of radiation per year but a nuclear power plant releases only 0.3 millirem in the same time

period.

I AM A DOCTOR, BEING VICTIMIZED FOR TELLING RADIATION Dr. V. Pugazhenthi is acclaimed for his rigorous and credible studies on health impact of radiation around Kalpakkam nuclear site. He is one of the members of people’s expert committee in the ongoing anti-nuclear movement in Koodankulam. We have been publishing Dr. Pugazhenthi’s articles, jointly written with Dr. V TRead More HIGH LEVEL ANALYSIS OF COSTS AND BENEFITS OF NUCLEAR POWER 3 Such levelized cost of energy in India for any new nuclear power plant is estimated to be not less than Rs. 15 per kWH as has been estimated in the case of Jaitapur NPP, PROPOSED NUCLEAR FUEL COMPLEX IN RAJASTHAN FACES PUBLIC Courtesy: The Hindu. There appears to be considerable opposition from the local population to the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) proposed to be set up at Rawatbhata near Kota in Rajasthan.

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Fukushima mothers record radiation for future generations April 12, 2020. A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NUCLEAR TEST SITES? Nuclear testing ended over 20 years ago but the legacy of the test areas still remains and will do for hundreds or thousands of years. 8 countries have actively tested nuclear weapons, some in their own backyard if it was big enough like the Soviet Union and the US but they also used others peoples backyards in the Pacific, the British and French did this. NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS: LISTED AND RANKED SINCE We have identified 33 serious incidents and accidents at nuclear power stations since the first recorded one in 1952 at Chalk River in Ontario, Canada. The information is partially from the International Atomic Energy Authority – which, astonishingly, fails to keep a complete historical database – and partially from reports. AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR REGULATORY AUTHORITY (NRA) IS THE Why is the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) dragging its feet? by E A S Sarma Former Secretary to Government of India Visakhapatnam. The havoc caused by a 13-metre high tsunami off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 and the disaster that immediately struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility, leading to the meltdown of three units of the power plant, constantly remind the humanity of SINOP NUCLEAR PLANT: TURKEY SEEKS AN EIA WITHOUT A COMPANY 1 million trees cut down for a final repository. In Sinop, the first movement that paved the way for the environmental massacre for this project was the transfer of 10 square kilometers of land from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to the Ministry of Energy.In the area of 1415 stadiums, nearly 1 million trees were cut without showing any sign of remorse. EVACUATION IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS: LESSONS FROM FUKUSHIMA The main responses to a nuclear disaster are shelter, evacuation and stable iodine prophylaxis. The most important, in terms of preventing future cancer epidemics, is evacuation. This article is based on North American evacuation plans. Little is known of UK emergency evacuation

plans as few, if

THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT AND NUCLEAR POWER: A MELTDOWN OF David Ropeik (Article Courtesy- Big Think) The Fukushima nuclear disaster has offered the world a lot of important lessons. We can only hope that one of the most importanta lesson that’s staring us all in the facewill be taken to heart by the culture of government officials, and business people, and scientists and engineers, who regulate and run today’s nuclear energy systems, worldwide. CIA'S LOST PLUTONIUM IN THE HIMALAYAS: RADIOACTIVE FOR Legacy of CIA Himalayan Operation Could Imperil Millions. Courtesy: The Progressive Talk about harebrained schemes. The CIA has had its share of dimwitted operations (the plot to make Castro’s beard fall off comes to mind), but an expedition to plant a nuclear-powered sensor on a 25,000-foot-plus mountain in the Himalayas is in a league

of its own.

ANTI-NUCLEAR MOVEMENT IN JAPAN: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL The Institute of East Asian Studies In the University of California, Berkeley organised a conference on April 20-21, 2012. The theme of the conference was “Towards Long-term Sustainability: In Response to the 3/11 Earthquake and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” An interesting paper titled “Historical Background of the Fukushima Accident and the Anti-nuclear Movement in Japan” was SO, HOW MANY BANANAS ARE EQUAL TO CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA Jim Green | Combined, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima is estimated at 648,000 person-Sieverts. Exposure from eating a banana is estimated at between 0.09-2.3 microSieverts. Let's use a figure of 0.1 microSievert per banana. Thus, exposure from Chernobyl and Fukushima equates to 6,480,000,000,000 Banana Equivalent Doses - that's 6.48 trillion bananas or, if you prefer, 6.48 terabananas or

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NUCLEAR AND CLIMATE

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CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN ARGUMENT AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER, NOT FOR IT: NEW REPORT CONTESTS THE NUCLEAR LOBBIES’ SALES PITCH

December 7, 2018

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SUBSIDIZING NUCLEAR POWER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IS A BAD IDEA

December 6, 2018

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NUCLEAR IS A WATER-GUZZLING ENERGY SOURCE: IT CANNOT SURVIVE DROUGHTS

AND CLIMATE CHANGE

December 1, 2018

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

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INDIA’S UNYIELDING QUEST FOR URANIUM

November 27, 2019

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THE IMPACT OF CHERNOBYL’S NUCLEAR DISASTER 33 YEARS LATER

April 26, 2019

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ENGINEERING NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES THROUGH THE CHARADE OF THE GREEN

CLEARANCE

January 4, 2019

NUCLEAR ANTHROPOCENE

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NUCLEAR WAR IN SOUTH ASIA COULD KILL MILLIONS, UNLEASH GLOBAL STARVATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: NEW STUDY

October 4, 2019

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NEARLY EVERYONE ON EARTH WOULD BE THREATENED IF NUCLEAR WINTER OCCURS:

NEW STUDY

September 8, 2019

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CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR TESTS, POKHRAN AND BEYOND: AN INTERVIEW WITH

PROF. ROBERT JACOBS

May 26, 2019

NUCLEAR AND SOCIETY

* Nuclear and Capitalism

* Gender

* Race

* Democracy

* Culture

‘DISASTER CAPITALISM AT ITS WORST’: NUCLEAR INDUSTRY LOBBIES SCRAMBLE FOR BAILOUT DURING COVID-19 CRISIS

March 26, 2020

Friends of the Earth on Monday accused the nuclear power industry of exhibiting “disaster capitalism at its worst” after a lobbying group representing it reportedly asked the Trump administration for a 30% percent tax credit amid the coronavirus pandemic and pressed congressional lawmakers to include handouts in stimulus legislation making its way through the House and Senate.

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CHERNOBYL: THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF DARK TOURISM

August 2, 2019

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PROFITEERING FROM MASS DESTRUCTION: PRIVATE COMPANIES AND THE NUCLEAR

WEAPONS

May 5, 2019

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INDIA APPROVES URANIUM EXPLORATION IN TIGER RESERVE, ADIVASI COMMUNITY

FACES EVICTION

June 16, 2017

FUKUSHIMA MOTHERS RECORD RADIATION FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

April 12, 2020

A group of over 10 mothers who set up a citizen-led laboratory to monitor radiation levels in Fukushima following the massive earthquake and tsunami which caused meltdowns at the nuclear power plant in the northeastern prefecture 9 years ago, continue to record and disclose radiation data on foodstuffs and soil collected or brought in by people from different parts of the prefecture, as well as seawater off the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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FUKUSHIMA WOMEN AND CHILDREN ON THE FRONTLINE: GREENPEACE REPORT EXPOSES CONTINUED RADIATION RISKS ON 8 YEARS OF NUCLEAR ACCIDENT

March 10, 2019

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BANNING THE BOMB, SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY: RAY ACHESON’S MUST-WATCH

TED TALK

January 17, 2019

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REMEMBERING THE ‘ANTI-NATIONALS’ OF KOODANKULAM: WHY CRIMINALISATION OF DISSENT HAS A LONG AND TORTURED HISTORY

September 18, 2018

ANOINTED: A HEART-WRENCHING VIDEO-POEM ABOUT RADIOACTIVE RACISM

April 20, 2018

A heart-wrenching poem about radioactive racism and the long quest for peace and justice, written and spoken by ICAN campaigner Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner of the Marshall Islands, where the United States conducted 67 nuclear test explosions.

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RADIOACTIVE RACISM IN AUSTRALIA: NUCLEAR WAR ON ABORIGINAL PEOPLE

February 4, 2018

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PROTEST AGAINST NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP IN SCOTLAND BY ABORIGINAL

COMMUNITIES

January 6, 2018

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RADIOACTIVE LEGACY OF MAYAK: TATAR VILLAGERS IN RUSSIA LIVE IN THE

NUCLEAR SHADOW

December 18, 2017

‘DISASTER CAPITALISM AT ITS WORST’: NUCLEAR INDUSTRY LOBBIES SCRAMBLE FOR BAILOUT DURING COVID-19 CRISIS

March 26, 2020

Friends of the Earth on Monday accused the nuclear power industry of exhibiting “disaster capitalism at its worst” after a lobbying group representing it reportedly asked the Trump administration for a 30% percent tax credit amid the coronavirus pandemic and pressed congressional lawmakers to include handouts in stimulus legislation making its way through the House and Senate.

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THE HEARTBEAT OF DEMOCRACY HEARD IN TURKEY: REFLECTIONS OF AN ANTI-NUCLEAR ACTIVIST

July 2, 2019

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ANTI-NUKE ACTIVIST, UDAYAKUMAR, APPEALS TO INDIAN PRESIDENT TO END ONGOING GOVERNMENT WITCH-HUNT

June 13, 2019

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JINGOIST ELECTIONEERING PREVAILS 21 YEARS AFTER INDIA’S NUCLEAR

TESTS

May 12, 2019

THE CHERNOBYL SERIES, WHY NOW?

July 2, 2019

Pinar Demircan | Declaring Soviet Russia as the sole perpetrator of the world’s largest nuclear disaster over the Chernobyl series by ignoring nuclear realities to the extent I have described above, shows that the image of the risks on nuclear power plants around the world is tried to be reshaped.

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HBO’S CHERNOBYL: A CAUTIONARY TALE ABOUT SPLITTING ATOMS, OR ANOTHER CHAPTER OF ANTI-RUSSIA PROPAGANDA?

June 16, 2019

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CHILDREN OF KOODANKULAM: GROWING UP WITH THE STRUGGLE

April 13, 2013

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THE FISSION

March 28, 2013

NUCLEAR SAFETY

* Radiation and Health

* Safety Regulation

* Nuclear Liability

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR BODY RECEIVES HIGH RADIATION DOSE?

April 12, 2020

Working in a nuclear power plant has to be one of the world’s most dangerous jobs, and in today’s new video we’ll show you exactly why nuclear energy is so powerful and so feared. We’re talking about the scientists who received the highest dose of radiation in human history in a tragic nuclear accident. How long can you survive after being dosed with such a heavy amount of radiation? Watch this new video to hear about the true story of the scientists who lived through nuclear accident, but were forever changed.

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FUKUSHIMA MOTHERS RECORD RADIATION FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

April 12, 2020

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WHAT AUSTRALIA TYPE FIRE MAY TELL US ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF NUCLEAR

DISASTERS

January 22, 2020

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RISKS OF RADIOACTIVITY: ATOMIC RADIATION AND ITS MEDICAL EFFECTS

January 12, 2019

IN A SEASON OF IMPETUOUS LAWMAKING, WHITHER NUCLEAR SAFETY?

January 24, 2020

Sonali Huria | The Leaflet SINCE returning to power last year with an overwhelming majority in the 2019 general elections, the Modi-led government has passed a series of legislations in rapid succession without any credible dialogue both within and outside Parliament – amendments to the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, which in effect have diluted the statutory requirementRead More

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AS FRANCE STARTS INVESTIGATION INTO NUCLEAR SAFETY FRAUD, INDIA MUST

RETHINK JAITAPUR

May 14, 2019

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AEC CALLS KUDANKULAM SHUT-DOWNS SERIOUS, BUT INSTITUTIONALISED NUCLEAR COMPLACENCY CONTINUES: DR. EAS SARMA

April 26, 2019

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‘CONFESSIONS OF A ROGUE NUCLEAR REGULATOR’: EXCERPTS FROM THE LATEST BOOK BY FORMER US NRC CHIEF GREGORY JACZKO

January 23, 2019

NAMASTE NUKES? TRUMP’S TOXIC SALES PITCH FOR THE STALLED WESTINGHOUSE NUCLEAR PROJECT IN INDIA

February 29, 2020

Kumar Sundaram | Despite the hype that Trump’s recent visit generated – of an upgrade of US-India relations to a ‘Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership’ and so on – there is very little that India stands to gain. In the absence of any new meaningful and people-centric cooperation on trade, environment, education or technology, this nuclear tango will only remain a farcical buildup at the cost of the safety and livelihoods of Indian

citizens.

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IN A SEASON OF IMPETUOUS LAWMAKING, WHITHER NUCLEAR SAFETY?

January 24, 2020

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JAPAN’S MOVE TO AMEND NUCLEAR DAMAGE LAW WILL PUSH THE BURDEN OF RISK ON CITIZENS: CNIC

December 8, 2018

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MODI GOVT’S UNDERMINING OF LIABILITY LAW: JOURNEY FROM BHOPAL DISASTER TO NUCLEAR DISASTER

December 26, 2017

CYBER VULNERABILITY OF KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR PLANT: RISKS MORE PRONOUNCED THAN THE CURRENT EPISODE REVEALS

October 31, 2019

KUMAR SUNDARAM | The NPCIL must come clear on the larger issue of suppliers and systems involved in the KKNPP. Transparency is a pre-requisite when the safety of millions of Indian citizens is at stake. Also, the foreign control of crucial infrastructure is an important aspect that simply cannot be ignored.

NUCLEAR AND FOOD

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WHEN INDIA LET CHERNOBYL-CONTAMINATED BUTTER ENTER ITS KITCHEN

April 30, 2018

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NEW STUDY FINDS FUKUSHIMA’S RADIATION WILL POISON FOOD “FOR

DECADES,”

June 23, 2017

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FUKUSHIMA: RADIATION SPREADS INTO JAPANESE FOOD SUPPLY

December 1, 2011

NUCLEAR AND WATER

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NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS, AS SEEN THROUGH THE HISTORY OF WATER-RELATED

DISASTERS

April 14, 2020

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NUCLEAR IS A WATER-GUZZLING ENERGY SOURCE: IT CANNOT SURVIVE DROUGHTS

AND CLIMATE CHANGE

December 1, 2018

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WIDESPREAD URANIUM CONTAMINATION IN INDIA’S GROUNDWATER: NEW STUDY

June 8, 2018

NUCLEAR AND ANIMALS

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“MY FISH IS YOUR FISH”: A MUST-WATCH SHORT FILM ON NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION IN MARSHALL ISLANDS

September 7, 2019

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NALLAMALA URANIUM MINE WILL DESTROY INDIA’S SECOND LARGEST TIGER

RESERVE

August 4, 2019

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WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE CHERNOBYL ANIMAL MUTATIONS

July 19, 2018

NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS

* Fukushima

* Chernobyl

* Three Mile Island

* Accidents in India HOW DANGEROUS IS DISCHARGING RADIOACTIVE WATER INTO THE OCEAN IN

FUKUSHIMA? AN FAQ

April 24, 2020

Recently there have been many reports on TV and the newspaper regarding the ‘treated water’ from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant that continues to increase in volume. The storage capacity at Fukushima Daiichi is reaching its limit, and a government’s committee has come out with a report stating that “the most realistic option is to release treated water into the ocean.” Is this really the case? Compiled below are answers to the most commonly asked questions regarding this issue.

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SAY NO TO DISCHARGE OF FUKUSHIMA NPP’S CONTAMINATED WATER INTO THE

SEA!

April 24, 2020

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FUKUSHIMA HAS MORE THAN 1 MILLION TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER: 9 YEARS OF THE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT

April 12, 2020

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FUKUSHIMA MOTHERS RECORD RADIATION FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

April 12, 2020

ON THIS CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY, WATCH A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE DISASTER AND INTERACT ONLINE WITH THE DIRECTOR

April 17, 2020

Due to coronavirus, the Culture of Resistance Film’s latest documentary – Stalking Chernobyl: Wxploration After Apocalypse’ – will be premiered ‘online now. The film can be accessed FOR FREE from April 16 to April 26 And on April 26, the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day, at 17:00 GMT, you can join director Iara Lee as she discusses the film with special guests and answers viewers’

questions via Zoom.

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“WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER CHERNOBYL”: PROTEST INTENSIFIES AGAINST BELARUS’ NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

February 10, 2020

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CHERNOBYL: THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF DARK TOURISM

August 2, 2019

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KATE BROWN EXPLAINS HOW A CHERNOBYL-LIKE DISASTER COULD HAPPEN AGAIN

July 2, 2019

40 YEARS OF THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT: MURDEROUS LEGACY STILL

THREATENS US ALL

April 6, 2019

Harvey Wasserman | Forty years after TMI, the question is: How many more operating nukes will blow up like Fukushima and Chernobyl, or partially melt like Three Mile Island, pouring heat and radiation into

the ecosphere?

CYBER VULNERABILITY OF KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR PLANT: RISKS MORE PRONOUNCED THAN THE CURRENT EPISODE REVEALS

October 31, 2019

KUMAR SUNDARAM | The NPCIL must come clear on the larger issue of suppliers and systems involved in the KKNPP. Transparency is a pre-requisite when the safety of millions of Indian citizens is at stake. Also, the foreign control of crucial infrastructure is an important aspect that simply cannot be ignored.

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ACCIDENT IN THE MADRAS ATOMIC POWER STATION UNIT 1 – REPORT BY DR.

V. PUGAZHENTHI

April 6, 2018

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INTERVIEW WITH S P UDAYAKUMAR: ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF NUCLEAR ACCIDENT IN THREE MILES ISLAND

March 29, 2018

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EVACUATION IN NUCLEAR DISASTERS: LESSONS FROM FUKUSHIMA AND BEYOND

February 7, 2018

INDIA’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES

* Koodankulam

* Jaitapur

* Chutka

* Fatehabad

* Kovvada

* Kalpakkam

* Kaiga

* Mithivirdi

* Rawatbhata

* Haripur

CYBER VULNERABILITY OF KUDANKULAM NUCLEAR PLANT: RISKS MORE PRONOUNCED THAN THE CURRENT EPISODE REVEALS

October 31, 2019

KUMAR SUNDARAM | The NPCIL must come clear on the larger issue of suppliers and systems involved in the KKNPP. Transparency is a pre-requisite when the safety of millions of Indian citizens is at stake. Also, the foreign control of crucial infrastructure is an important aspect that simply cannot be ignored.

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ANTI-NUKE ACTIVIST, UDAYAKUMAR, APPEALS TO INDIAN PRESIDENT TO END ONGOING GOVERNMENT WITCH-HUNT

June 13, 2019

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PMANE STATEMENT AGAINST INDIA’S FIRST AWAY FROM REACTOR (AFR) PROPOSED AT KOODANKULAM

June 5, 2019

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AEC CALLS KUDANKULAM SHUT-DOWNS SERIOUS, BUT INSTITUTIONALISED NUCLEAR COMPLACENCY CONTINUES: DR. EAS SARMA

April 26, 2019

WHY IS INDIA BENT ON BAILING OUT THE FRENCH NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AT THE COST OF ITS OWN CITIZENS’ LIVES?

September 13, 2019

Even as the French nuclear regulator ASN has put the nuclear power company EDF on a safety watch after repeated warning in recent years about vulnerabilities in the EPR design, the Modi government in India continues to push for the purchase of 6 EPRs for setting up in Jaitapur. We are publishing this open letter written by the former Union Power Secretary Dr. EAS Sarma to the Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in this context. The letter deserves wider circulation.

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IN INDIA’S JAITAPUR, FISHERFOLK TAKE ON THE WORLD’S LARGEST NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT

April 25, 2019

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DEAR CAG, YOU MUST PROBE THE OPACITY OF MODI’S PUSH FOR JAITAPUR; IT IS YET ANOTHER RAFALE, ONLY, MUCH WORSE

January 13, 2019

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DEAR MR. MODI, YOU OWE AN EXPLANATION TO THE PEOPLE ON JAITAPUR NUCLEAR POWER PROJECT!

January 12, 2019

CHUTKA NUCLEAR PROJECT: FORMER CM DIGVIJAY SINGH VOICES OPPOSITION, WILL INDIA’S POLITICAL CLASS WAKE UP?

February 21, 2018

Kumar Sundaram | The former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh and senior leader of the opposition Congress party has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to rethink the Chutka nuclear power project proposed in the state. We urgently need suck reckoning across the political spectrum.

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AS INDIA CELEBRATES REPUBLIC DAY, PEOPLE IN NARMADA VALLEY BOYCOTT POLLS AGAINST CHUTKA NUCLEAR PLANT THAT WILL DISPLACE THEM AGAIN

January 27, 2018

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NUKING NARMADA: ADIVASIS IN INDIA FACING SECOND DISPLACEMENT, NOW FOR

NUCLEAR PLANT

December 20, 2017

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GROUND REPORT: PEOPLE IN NARMADA VALLEY SAY A LOUD NO TO CHUTKA NUCLEAR PROJECT

December 13, 2017

FATEHABAD NUCLEAR PROJECT: A FUKUSHIMA IN THE MAKING?

August 28, 2017

AMITA BHADURI | Nuclear plants are usually located near oceans or rivers in order to have access to ample water for cooling but not the plant at Fatehabad. When completed, it will be India’s largest and could be its most dangerous too.

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THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY HAS KILLED MORE BLACKBUCKS THAN SALMAN KHAN

February 1, 2015

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GOVT MUST INITIATE A NATIONAL DEBATE ON NUCLEAR ENERGY – S P

UDAYAKUMAR

September 23, 2014

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NUCLEAR COLLUSION: FROM FUKUSHIMA TO GORAKHPUR

January 14, 2014

NAMASTE NUKES? TRUMP’S TOXIC SALES PITCH FOR THE STALLED WESTINGHOUSE NUCLEAR PROJECT IN INDIA

February 29, 2020

Kumar Sundaram | Despite the hype that Trump’s recent visit generated – of an upgrade of US-India relations to a ‘Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership’ and so on – there is very little that India stands to gain. In the absence of any new meaningful and people-centric cooperation on trade, environment, education or technology, this nuclear tango will only remain a farcical buildup at the cost of the safety and livelihoods of Indian

citizens.

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US NUCLEAR REACTOR PROJECT IN INDIA: ANTI-NUKE ACTIVISTS WRITE TO THE

CONSULATE

March 18, 2019

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NEW ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT SALES OF US NUCLEAR REACTORS TO INDIA: CITIZENS’ GROUPS STAND IN OPPOSITION

March 15, 2019

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IN KOVVADA, VILLAGERS DISPLACED FORCIBLY EVEN AS THE PROSPECTS OF WESTINGHOUSE’S NUCLEAR PROJECT REMAIN UNCERTAIN

January 19, 2018

129 PEOPLE JAILED FOR PROTESTING AGAINST KALPAKKAM REACTOR

March 29, 2013

In a bid to intimidate fenceline communities living around the Kalpakkam nuclear reactors, the Tamil Nadu Police has jailed 129 people of the 650 that were detained in wedding halls yesterday.

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KALPAKKAM: PEACEFUL ANTI-NUKE PROTEST TURNED NASTY BY TN COPS

March 28, 2013

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RADIATION, CANCER, BLINDNESS, TARDINESS, COVER-UPS – THE LESSONS FROM THE KALPAKKAM NUCLEAR FACILITY

July 21, 2012

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STOP FUEL LOADING AND GIVE EMERGENCY TRAINING: PMANE DEMANDS IN

KOODANKULAM

April 26, 2012

EXPANSION OF KAIGA NUCLEAR PLANT IN INDIA: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

December 24, 2018

SHANKAR SHARMA | Considering all these issues in the overall welfare perspective of the true welfare of the people of Uttara Kannada district, the state of Karnataka and the country, and in the context that nuclear power is the costliest, riskiest and least favored electricity option around the world, and that there are much benign and much less costly options to meet the legitimate demand for electricity in our country, the AEC/DAE should ask NPCIL to withdraw its application for Environmental Clearance to this project proposal.

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KARNATAKA GOVT MUST REJECT THE FARCICAL EIA REPORT FOR KAIGA NUCLEAR PLANT’S EXPANSION: SHANKAR SHARMA

December 17, 2018

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KAIGA’S EIA FAILED TO CAPTURE ESSENTIAL CONCERNS: DR. EAS SARMA’S LETTER TO DR. K S PARTHASARATHY ON NUCLEAR PLANT’S EXPANSION

December 17, 2018

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WORLD’S ONLY NUCLEAR PLANT IN RAINFOREST: INDIAN ENVIRONMENTALISTS OPPOSE KAIGA’S EXPANSION

December 14, 2018

MITHIVIRDI ANTI-NUKE MOVEMENT: WHERE VILLAGERS DEFEATED A MIGHTY CORPORATION LIKE WESTINGHOUSE

July 1, 2017

The proposed 6000 MegaWatt (MWe) nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat has now been officially slated for Kovada, Andhra Pradesh. A decade long struggle to save their land has ended in victory for the villagers of the region.

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GREEN CLEARANCE FOR NUCLEAR PROJECT IN GUJARAT WITHDRAWN BY NGT, BUT GOVT SHIFTS IT TO ANDHRA!

June 2, 2017

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CANCEL WESTINGHOUSE’S NUCLEAR PROJECT!: VILLAGE COUNCILS FROM GUJARAT WRITE TO OBAMA AND MODI

February 18, 2015

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CENTRE SLAMS NPCIL OVER PROPSED GUJARAT POWER PLANT

October 9, 2014

IAEA TEAM RAISED SERIOUS SAFETY ISSUES AT RAWATBHATA, SAY ACTIVISTS

– THE HINDU

November 11, 2012

Activist seek “transparent and independent” inspection to address issues of vulnerability and unaccountability.

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE IAEA TEAM VISITING INDIA FOR SAFETY INSPECTIONS:

CNDP

November 3, 2012

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NUCLEAR WORKERS FROM RAWATBHATA SUPPORT KOODANKULAM STRUGGLE, EXPOSE

NPCIL

September 15, 2012

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IN RAWATBHATA, WORKERS DENIED RIGHT TO KNOW RADIOACTIVE EXPOSURE

August 28, 2012

PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT AGAINST NUCLEAR PROJECT IN HARIPUR: A MUST-WATCH

DOCUMENTARY

May 3, 2017

Courtesy: Alternative Media Initiative People’s movement against nuclear project in Haripur: a must-watch documentary

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LESSONS FROM THE HARIPUR ANTI-NUCLEAR STRUGGLE

September 7, 2011

NUCLEAR WASTE

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PMANE STATEMENT AGAINST INDIA’S FIRST AWAY FROM REACTOR (AFR) PROPOSED AT KOODANKULAM

June 5, 2019

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HOW HUMANS AFTER 100,000 YEARS WILL RECOGNIZE NUCLEAR WASTE?

December 12, 2018

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‘TICKING TIME BOMB’: GIANT STOCKPILE OF NUCLEAR WASTE ENDANGERS US

December 6, 2018

URANIUM MINING

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INDIA’S UNYIELDING QUEST FOR URANIUM

November 27, 2019

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NALLAMALA URANIUM MINE WILL DESTROY INDIA’S SECOND LARGEST TIGER

RESERVE

August 4, 2019

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STOP URANIUM MINING IN NALLAMALA FOREST!

August 4, 2019

REPROCESSING

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A CONVERSATION WITH DR. GORDON EDWARDS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN THE CANADIAN NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, AND A LOOK BACK AT THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CANADIAN COALITION FOR NUCLEAR RESPONSIBILITY (CCNR)

September 24, 2018

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TURNING YUCCA MOUNTAIN INTO NUCLEAR REPROCESSING SITE: WHY IT IS A BAD

IDEA

May 6, 2018

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REPROCESSING SPENT N-FUEL: NEITHER SAFE NOR ECONOMICAL

September 29, 2017

REGIONS

* Asia

* Africa

* Australia

* Europe

* Americas

UAE’S BARAKAH NUCLEAR PLANT: WRONG REACTOR, AT WRONG TIME, AT WRONG

PLACE

April 19, 2020

The UAE has announced that the first reactor of its under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online within “a few months”. The country’s first nuclear plant could address a key energy need in the region, but questions remain as to its usefulness and safety in a geopolitically tense environment.

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NAMASTE NUKES? TRUMP’S TOXIC SALES PITCH FOR THE STALLED WESTINGHOUSE NUCLEAR PROJECT IN INDIA

February 29, 2020

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NUCLEAR WEAPONS USE IN SOUTH ASIA: ZIA MIAN’S LECTURE AT HARVARD

February 10, 2020

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ESTABLISHING A MIDDLE EAST ZONE FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS – UN

CHIEF’S STATEMENT

February 10, 2020

UAE’S BARAKAH NUCLEAR PLANT: WRONG REACTOR, AT WRONG TIME, AT WRONG

PLACE

April 19, 2020

The UAE has announced that the first reactor of its under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online within “a few months”. The country’s first nuclear plant could address a key energy need in the region, but questions remain as to its usefulness and safety in a geopolitically tense environment.

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ON THIS CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY, WATCH A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE DISASTER AND INTERACT ONLINE WITH THE DIRECTOR

April 17, 2020

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ZWENTENDORF: INSIDE THE AUSTRIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR THAT WAS NEVER SWITCHED ON, THANKS TO PUBLIC OPPOSITION

April 12, 2020

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COVID-19 EXPOSES NUCLEAR SECTOR’S VULNERABILITIES IN THE UK

April 12, 2020

UAE’S BARAKAH NUCLEAR PLANT: WRONG REACTOR, AT WRONG TIME, AT WRONG

PLACE

April 19, 2020

The UAE has announced that the first reactor of its under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online within “a few months”. The country’s first nuclear plant could address a key energy need in the region, but questions remain as to its usefulness and safety in a geopolitically tense environment.

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ON THIS CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY, WATCH A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE DISASTER AND INTERACT ONLINE WITH THE DIRECTOR

April 17, 2020

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ZWENTENDORF: INSIDE THE AUSTRIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR THAT WAS NEVER SWITCHED ON, THANKS TO PUBLIC OPPOSITION

April 12, 2020

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COVID-19 EXPOSES NUCLEAR SECTOR’S VULNERABILITIES IN THE UK

April 12, 2020

UAE’S BARAKAH NUCLEAR PLANT: WRONG REACTOR, AT WRONG TIME, AT WRONG

PLACE

April 19, 2020

The UAE has announced that the first reactor of its under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online within “a few months”. The country’s first nuclear plant could address a key energy need in the region, but questions remain as to its usefulness and safety in a geopolitically tense environment.

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ON THIS CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY, WATCH A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE DISASTER AND INTERACT ONLINE WITH THE DIRECTOR

April 17, 2020

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ZWENTENDORF: INSIDE THE AUSTRIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR THAT WAS NEVER SWITCHED ON, THANKS TO PUBLIC OPPOSITION

April 12, 2020

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COVID-19 EXPOSES NUCLEAR SECTOR’S VULNERABILITIES IN THE UK

April 12, 2020

UAE’S BARAKAH NUCLEAR PLANT: WRONG REACTOR, AT WRONG TIME, AT WRONG

PLACE

April 19, 2020

The UAE has announced that the first reactor of its under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online within “a few months”. The country’s first nuclear plant could address a key energy need in the region, but questions remain as to its usefulness and safety in a geopolitically tense environment.

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ON THIS CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY, WATCH A NEW DOCUMENTARY ON THE DISASTER AND INTERACT ONLINE WITH THE DIRECTOR

April 17, 2020

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ZWENTENDORF: INSIDE THE AUSTRIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR THAT WAS NEVER SWITCHED ON, THANKS TO PUBLIC OPPOSITION

April 12, 2020

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COVID-19 EXPOSES NUCLEAR SECTOR’S VULNERABILITIES IN THE UK

April 12, 2020

RESOURCES

* Reports

* Interviews

* Documents

* Videos

* Letters

* Music

* Pictures

* Posters

IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON STRATEGIC STABILITY AND NUCLEAR RISK IN SOUTH ASIA: NEW SIPRI REPORT

April 24, 2020

This volume assembles the perspectives of eight experts on South Asia on why and how machine learning and autonomy may become the focus of an arms race among nuclear-armed states. It further explores how the adoption of these technologies may have an impact on their calculation of strategic stability and nuclear risk at the regional and transregional levels.

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‘NUCLEAR EXNOVATION’: EUROPE STARES AT MASSIVE PHASEOUTS AS ITS REACTORS AGE, SAYS NEW REPORT

April 21, 2020

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HOW NUCLEAR POWER POWERS THE BOMB – IPPNW GERMANY REPORT

October 21, 2019

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WORLD NUCLEAR INDUSTRY STATUS REPORT 2019

September 22, 2019

NOAM CHOMSKY: THE MYTH OF “USABLE” NUCLEAR WEAPONS

July 2, 2019

Noam Chomsky sits down with Lawrence Krauss in this episode of The

Origins Podcast:

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CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR TESTS, POKHRAN AND BEYOND: AN INTERVIEW WITH

PROF. ROBERT JACOBS

May 26, 2019

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WATCH: DIANUKE INTERVIEWS MANI SHANKAR AIYAR ON 30 YEARS OF THE RAJIV GANDHI ACTION PLAN FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

June 26, 2018

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Even as the French nuclear regulator ASN has put the nuclear power company EDF on a safety watch after repeated warning in recent years about vulnerabilities in the EPR design, the Modi government in India continues to push for the purchase of 6 EPRs for setting up in Jaitapur. We are publishing this open letter written by the former Union Power Secretary Dr. EAS Sarma to the Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in this context. The letter deserves wider circulation.

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