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The lonely struggle of India’s anti-nuclear protesters via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/06/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Women are leading protests in Tamil Nadu state against a power plant – yet few people in India know the village they’re from, let alone support their cause Behind the Lourdes Matha church in Idinthakarai, a fishing village at the … Continue reading →

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At UN, Pakistan slams ‘nuclear doublespeak’ via DAWN

Posted on 2016/04/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has assailed the double standards practiced by some states, which preach nuclear disarmament but fail to take necessary steps themselves. Speaking in a session of the UN Disarmament Commission, a subsidiary of the General Assembly, Ambassador Maleeha … Continue reading →

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Mumbai: Fukushima survivor warns against nuclear power plants via The Indian Express

Posted on 2016/03/21 by norma field

Days after a nuclear power plant in neighbouring Gujarat was shut down after a major heavy water leak, 62-year-old Masami Yoshizawa, a survivor of the Fukushima nuclear disaster five years ago, made an emotional appeal in Mumbai asking Indians to … Continue reading →

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USA uses TPP-like trade-court to kill massive Indian solar project via boingboing

Posted on 2016/03/16 by norma field

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was on track to deliver deploy 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022 (“more than the current solar capacity of the world’s top five solar-producing countries combined”) but because India specified that … Continue reading →

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Marshall Islands takes world nuclear powers to ICJ via AlJazeera

Posted on 2016/03/08 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Islanders, who blame nuclear tests before 1958 for health damage, accuse the nations of breaching legal duty to disarm. he tiny Republic of the Marshall Islands in Micronesia is taking on the world’s nuclear powers with an unprecedented legal case … Continue reading →

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Marshall Islands sue Britain, India and Pakistan over nuclear weapons via The Guardian

Posted on 2016/01/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Archipelago where notorious Bikini Atoll test took place tells international court that nuclear powers have not lived up to disarmament obligations The tiny Marshall Islands will seek to persuade the UN’s highest court to take up a lawsuit against India, … Continue reading →

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Campaign against expanding nuclear projects in TN via The Hindu

Posted on 2016/01/05 by norma field

As negotiations between India and Russia are in the advanced stages for installing the third and fourth units of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, anti-nuclear activists have intensified their campaign against the expansion of nuclear assets in … Continue reading →

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Foreign hand trying to stall India’s atomic programme: AEC chief via The Economic Times

Posted on 2015/12/27 by norma field

NEW DELHI: With serious allegations of leaky nuclear reactors and poor security levelled against India’s nuclear programme, Atomic Energy Commission chief Sekhar Basu brushes aside these charges saying this is a “well designed agenda” to “stall or delay” the country’s … Continue reading →

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India Is Building a Top-Secret Nuclear City to Produce Thermonuclear Weapons, Experts Say via Foreign Policy

Posted on 2015/12/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The weapons could upgrade India as a nuclear power — and deeply unsettle Pakistan and China. CHALLAKERE, India — When laborers began excavating pastureland in India’s southern Karnataka state early in 2012, members of the nomadic Lambani tribe were startled. … Continue reading →

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India’s nuclear solution to global warming is generating huge domestic protests via the Center for Public Integrity

Posted on 2015/12/16 by norma field

By Adrian Levy Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, INDIA — In a town riven by blackouts every summer, the startup in December of commercial operations for a multi-billion-dollar, Russian-built nuclear reactor near here would ordinarily have been a cause for celebration. It … Continue reading →

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