Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant

KS

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I'd rather not speak my mind.
You can speak...as long as you are not supporting the protests :D


And why are they dancing ?
Because they are brainwashed, illiterate and can be easily manipulated by putting on few images of Chernobyl or Fukushima in the local news paper (and they did do it). And also because the Church has got involved in this and for those simple rural folks the words of the pastor are words of gospel - indubitable truth.
 
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an intresting read .http://expressbuzz.com/biography/Forces-halting-our-n-surge/333225.html[h=1] Forces halting our n-surge [/h]

The agitation against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant has been running as a TV reality show for weeks now. The news-starved visual media has reduced the Koodankulam nuclear plant — a national investment of Rs 13,000 crore and just about to start — to a day-matinee-night show. The Koodankulam theatre is plagiarised on the Anna Fast model for media to hype it. The media too obliged and packaged it as hapless villagers fighting for their right to live. For long, it had winked at the scriptwriters, directors and actors behind the show. But does the media know — or not — that Koodankulam is no isolated event? And that the goals and mission that drive it link it to the stir that is on for almost two decades in the distant and remote West Khasi Hills in Meghalaya against uranium mining? The scriptwriters, directors and actors behind both have a common mission. The Koodankulam stir blocks the building of a nuclear plant for India. The West Khasi Hills agitation prevents the building of nuclear arsenal for India. Who are the directors and actors and what is their mission?
See what nuclear technology means to India. India needs nuclear power and nuclear weapons. There are, in the world, 22,000 nuclear bombs, 8,000 actively targeted at one another's perceived enemy. China has some 240 bombs targeted mostly at India. Pakistan has some 80 bombs targeted only at India. India has 100, less than a third of both. No one deeply concerned for India can even remotely undermine nuclear technology for power or weapons. On the other side, our energy security, heavily import-dependent, is at risk. We, a sixth of humanity, remain a burden on the world. Shamefully. We import oil, coal and gas. Our energy imports is $100 billion a year. Of which, coal imports, now 100 billion tons, alone cost $5 billion; it will reach $45 billion in 2020, $250 billion by 2050. We today produce 1,50,000MW of electricity. We need to raise it, by over six times, to 9,50,000MW, by 2030. This is not doable through imported fuel. It needs no seer to tell us that, in the long run, we need indigenously fuelled power. For which a prime candidate is nuclear power.Now, compare the environmental and human risk in thermal and nuclear power. The risk in one is the merit of the other. Experts say that a 1,000MW coal power plant causes annually 400 deaths by air pollution and climatic change. Nuclear energy does risk accidents — but once in decades — just four accidents in 60 years, involving 66 direct and 4,000 related deaths. It is far less risky compared thermal power. Air accidents kill some 1,000 persons in the world annually. Traffic accidents killed 1.14 lakh people in 2007 in India alone. Yet to think of banning coal, nor air or automobile travel will be laughable. The balance sheet of nuclear energy is thus superior, less risky, and more clean. Why do some brand nuclear power as evil? Now see how do we produce nuclear power and also weaponise India.Now uranium drives our nuclear programme. Our minimal uranium reserves are mainly located in Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, Jaduguda in Jharkhand and Tummalappalle in Andhra Pradesh. Global uranium trade is political, controlled by the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). The NSG sells uranium only to an approved country and its nuclear reactors are subject to NSG supervision. India signed a loaded nuclear treaty with the US only to win the NSG approval to access imported uranium. Now 14 of our 22 nuclear reactors are subject to global supervision. Only the unsupervised eight are usable for producing nuclear weapons. India can import uranium from the NSG for its nuclear power reactors, but import is only a short term answer, and costly for a country of our size. To fuel large nuclear power plants and for energy security, we cannot rely on imported uranium for long. Ultimately it has to be indigenous fuel. Fortunately, we have the world's largest deposit of thorium, an alternative to uranium and the nuclear fuel of future. We are perfecting the technology to use thorium for producing power. But, till that happens, we need to mine indigenous uranium, first, to reduce the dependence on imports for our nuclear power programme and, next, for operating the eight reactors to produce nuclear weaponry. The two facts are self evident. And now lift the veil and see the common faces behind the two decade-old Khasi Hills agitation against uranium mining and the agitation against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant — that is against nuclear India itself.That the Koodankulam stir is the show of the Catholic Church has become out, but a bit late. Neutral media reports now confirm that S P Udaykumar, who leads the agitation, stays with the parish priest Father Jaikumar at Idinthakarai village; Fr Jaikumar openly supports the stir; Fr Thadyuse, the priest of the church in Koodankulam, too is forthright in his support; Fr S Peter, priest at the popular St Antony's Church in the coastal village Ovary, sends his flock to partake in the relay fast at Idinthakarai; local Christians priests confirm that the Bishop at Tirunelveli supports the stir. The church hierarchy is therefore fully at it. According to reports, transport, cash and biriyani are provided to mobilise protesters and they are motivated to throw stones at the maintenance officials of the plant to force its closure. Remove the church, the agitation will stop.Now see the face behind the agitation in the Christian-majority Meghalaya, which has a sixth of India's uranium reserves. Not a kilogramme of uranium has been mined out of Meghalaya since 1990, thanks to 20-year long agitation by Khasi Hills students against mining it. The church in Meghalaya is backing, actually organising, the students. Violent incidents, blockade, picketing, huge rallies, setting fire to government offices and paralysing government marked the agitation (New Uranium Mining Projects - Meghalaya, India). And who talks for the agitators? The archbishop of Shillong, Dominic Jala. (Uranium: archbishop wants dialogue| Cathnews India). Take the church out, there will be no stir. Even the uranium reserve in Jharkhand is at risk. A huge tribal campaign, with NGOs patronised by the church backing it, is thwarting uranium mining in Jharkhand.QED: The campaign against mining uranium in Meghalaya and against the Koodankulam nuclear plant is by the same directors and actors with global links and money. Their target is nuclear India. They are driven by a geopolitical agenda to de-nuke India. But they actually nuke India.
 

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Koodankulam: Centre sees silver lining

For the many hoping for improvement in the dismal power scene in Tamil Nadu, there is now light at the end of a long tunnel of resistance against the Koodankulam nuclear power plant near here.

The crowd under the protest-shamiana at Idinthakarai, close to the plant, is thinning.


Local fishermen and women's groups have been providing the numbers for the relay protest fasts at Idinthakarai. While the fishermen fear the plant would destroy marine life, the women were brainwashed into believing that nuclear radiation would render them barren and their race extinct.

"On the 48th day of the relay fast today (Sunday), the turnout was just 150. At one time, we saw as many as 7,000 come in to squat along with their children. This senseless protest is fizzling out, at last," gushed a senior official who has been monitoring the agitation.

The Vijayapathi panchayat, which includes Idinthakarai, had only a couple of days ago passed a resolution demanding that the plant be closed. However, the resistance against the plant is said to be thinning.

"The Catholic priests involved in this agitation are now getting ready for Christmas. The fishermen cannot afford to sit in strike because this is the peak fishing season. For the rest of the public, this is the season of festivals and marriages," said another official, pointing out that on the other side of the hot fence, industry groups have been agitating for early resumption of work at the plant so that their power problems could be resolved.

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Full article Koodankulam: Centre sees silver lining | Deccan Chronicle
 

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^ Good news & bad news.

While the turnout is now thinning it may anytime gain momentum again in the future.

Centre must not think status quo is fine, as is wont of Congressis, and must be pro-active in allaying the fear of the villagers as well as cracking the whip on the fringe elements who are indulging in whipping up fears without any solid facts.
 

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Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant to be operational in two weeks: Indian PM Singh

Kudankulam to be operational in two weeks: PM

MOSCOW: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said India will make operational the Russian-built Kudankulam power plant in Tamil Nadu "in a couple of weeks", much ahead of the March 2012 deadline for the 1,000 MW-capacity unit I to begin commercial operations.

Manmohan Singh made the announcement at a joint press conference with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev here soon after their 12th summit even as Indian authorities are still struggling to convince local villagers that the nuclear plant is safe.

"I am confident that in a couple of weeks we should be able to go ahead in operationalising Kudankulam-I and, thereafter, in a period of six months, the Kudankulam-II," he said when asked about a deadline to operationalise the plant.

The prime minister also said that India and Russia had concluded negotiation on the terms and conditions for the Kudankulam units III and IV and they looked forward to moving ahead in their bilateral nuclear energy road map they signed in 2010.

Alluding to the villagers' protests against the nuclear plant, he said there were "temporary problems" in view of "some agitations" due to their concerns over the safety of the plant and its impact on their livelihood.

"We are confident we will be able to persuade some persons that their concerns are adequately taken care of and that our nuclear plants are safe and sound and there is nothing to worry about," he said. "That's a commitment both India and Russia will honour."
 
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The Hindu : News / International : India, Russia to go ahead with Kudankulam Units 3, 4

Russia will always be treated differently regarding nuclear liability. Koondakulam 1 and 2 deals were signed long before the US - India nuclear deal. Hence the nuclear liability bill does not cover these reactors. Now it will not apply to plants 3 and 4 either. The news also mentions more plants at the same site. I hope for at least 8 in total and a 20 KM radius evacuation zone with the population resettled.

Russia has rightfully earned the exclusion from the liability bill due to the fact that they helped with scaling our nuclear generation capacity. This is also an indirect message to the West. Remember, there was no compromise on liability terms for American or French reactors.

In my view, I think the broad position India is stating is that we dont need western nuclear reactors to scale up. All we need is fuel. We are capable of scaling up if we have fuel. Apart from the fact that the west still demands that used fuel from western reactors be sent back or reprocessed by them. And with the recent deals of long term fuel supply from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Nigeria we should be ok with fuel supply in the short to medium term. I doubt if we will need Australian uranium if we move into scaling our breeder reactors as planned.

This is again a good response to the recent NSG monkeying regarding enrichment/reprocessing policies.
 

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finally victory and electricity.

tribals lost- civilization won
 

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This is sinister:

Protesters keen on classified info, not N-safety


"The protesters are asking for copies of the inter-governmental agreements between India and Russia as well as drawings and design details of the 1,000 MW Russian nuclear plant, which is proprietory information and cannot be shared,"
In fact, the 15-member expert group set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also expressed their inability when the agitators asked for the inter-governmental agreements, issues related to India's position in the Nuclear Safety Group, setting up of a possible weapon facility at Kudankulam, liability issues of India and Russia and KKNPP's impact on India's bilateral relations with other countries.
 

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I would like someone to clarify what these bloody priests were doing in the so-called movement in the first place?
 

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In fact, the 15-member expert group set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also expressed their inability when the agitators asked for the inter-governmental agreements, issues related to India's position in the Nuclear Safety Group, setting up of a possible weapon facility at Kudankulam, liability issues of India and Russia and KKNPP's impact on India's bilateral relations with other countries.Heard from some source that US is playing a hand in this....It has influenced local church & christian priests to protest against Kudankulam Nuclear plant. Members views and comments on this please.
 

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(In fact, the 15-member expert group set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also expressed their inability when the agitators asked for the inter-governmental agreements, issues related to India's position in the Nuclear Safety Group, setting up of a possible weapon facility at Kudankulam, liability issues of India and Russia and KKNPP's impact on India's bilateral relations with other countries.<br><br>)


Heard from some source that some foreign hand is involved in this....It has influenced local church, christian priests to protest against Kudankulam Nuclear plant.

Members views and comments on this please
 
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(In fact, the 15-member expert group set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also expressed their inability when the agitators asked for the inter-governmental agreements, issues related to India's position in the Nuclear Safety Group, setting up of a possible weapon facility at Kudankulam, liability issues of India and Russia and KKNPP's impact on India's bilateral relations with other countries.<br><br>)


Heard from some source that some foreign hand is involved in this....It has influenced local church, christian priests to protest against Kudankulam Nuclear plant.


Members views and comments on this please
The instigators should be tried for treason if the money trail to support the agitation can be traced back to a foreign country.
 

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I hope the plant operated soon and power generated for the benefit of our country, our country is not in a posisiton to drop such projects after spending around 16,000 crores of money...

But on the other hand what the government shoud do is proper rehabilitation of the people those who lost land for this project, I have relatives who lost their land when the government initially took farm land for this project, they are paid equivalent to peanut for acres of land, and also the central government promised them to give job for those who lost land for the project, but till now no body from the surrounding villages are given job, but instead they brought contract laborers from far off places to do the work...

Recently in Gujarat the farmers lined up to give thier land for the Government Free Zone Projects, becuse the governemnt paid aroung 1.5 crore per acre of land and that is called rehabilitation, but for kudankulam project the farmers recived their money equivalent to nothing, now the Gov can't give back the money for land, at-lest the people those who lost their land for the project can be given government job, once that happens the people (Outsiders) those who are behind this agitation will run away from Kudankulam if the villagers gets their jobs as promised and once they desert them...
 
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Has it become operational?

I think two weeks have passed!
 

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Has it become operational?

I think two weeks have passed!
No, there was another news article after that, which said they will target May 2012 to operationalize unit 2 and end of year to operationalize unit 1.
 

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