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Antinuclear campaign growing in India

Campaigners from around India have now joined the resistance movement set up by farmers and fishermen

India’s government withdraws nuclear power legislation – Nuclear Reaction 14 March, 2010, .”…….’Indian farmers battle against nuclear plant  A robust people’s movement against a major nuclear power project has built up in a cluster of small villages on India’s picturesque Konkan coast.

The BBC’s Zubair Ahmed reports: Some 350km (220 miles) from India’s commercial capital, Mumbai, lies the village of Madban overlooking the vast expanse of the Arabian Sea. It is in this village that a 10,000 megawatt nuclear power plant is proposed – and farmers and fishermen, backed by campaigners, are hardening their stance against it. People from Madban believe the project will cause havoc to the environment and to their livelihoods……

Campaigners from around India have now joined the resistance movement set up by farmers and fishermen. They have all decided to stage a protest march in Ratnagiri on 17 March to highlight what they say are safety issues overlooked by the plans, as well as compensation schemes in case of accidents. Adwait Pednekar, a security expert in the energy sector, is opposing the nuclear plant because of the dangers he says that it poses. “First is the impact on the environment and the long term impact because of radioactivity on human beings and biodiversity, including sea life,” he says. The entire area taken by the government is quite productive in terms of horticulture and all that will be lost.” Environmental groups like Greenpeace support the campaign, arguing that the area is environmentally and ecologically sensitive.’

March 18, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, uranium | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium