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Deccan Chronicle, 23 Jan 2012 German helped get funds for nuke stir German anti-nuclear activist Rainer Hermman is reported to have helped the anti-Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project movement receive monetary assistance from abroad through a Kerala-based organisation of fishermen, according to a top ...

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Deccan Herald, 21 Jan 2012: Despite disasters risk in nuclear energy lowest: Kakodkar "Despite disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima, risk in nuclear energy is the least. Climate change could be bigger than a nuclear bomb," Kakodkar, Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at BARC, said delivering a ...

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First images from Japanese reactor show radiation

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Bade, Theo_Fidel, Thanks for the clarifications regarding the predicted seismic intensity (" directly beneath the power plant "!) at Jaitapur. I have now accessed the two articles referred to by Bade-ji and will try to go through and understand them. After that, I may revert back here for ...

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^^^ Request clarification please. Are you saying that the Indian Plate is folded and is flexed in such a manner as to make the latitude of Jaitapur (which, according the article quoted by disha in the earlier post, is the same as that of Latur and Koyna) important in estimating the earthquake levels...

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Dinamalar - Tamil News paper Jan 14, 2012 கூடங்குளம் போராட்டத்தை முடிவுக்கு கொண்டு வர வேண்டும்: அப்துல் கலாம் (The Koodangulam agitation must be brought to an end - Abdul Kalam) A translation of the first few lines of the news report: Dr Abdul Kalam writes to the PM - "If the ongoing agitation ...

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From Express India, 13 Jan 2012 Haryana moots compensation for land being acquired for n-power project I do not off-hand know whether the quantum of compensation packages to be paid, for different types of land, quoted in the report are fair or not. However, I do foresee that there is likely to be a...

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From: The Business Standard, Jan 13,2012 The global anti-nuclear lobby is fuelling protests: S K Jain . . . Q: Yes, but how do you propose to deal with the opposition to nuclear power projects going forward? A: All I can say is that the opposition to nuclear plants is fuelled by the global anti-nucl...

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From a web site called businessgreen.com which I have not come across before:
Post dated 9 Jan, 2012:
India appoints ex-nuclear chief [color=#FF0000][i]{Dr A. Kakodkar}[/i] ... ar Mission[/b]

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Indian Express, 9, Jan 2012: Nuke energy is safest, NPCIL tells IIT Bombay students . . . Bhardwaj {Director Technical, NPCIL} said there continues to be concerns about nuclear energy and resistance to it as things are not clear. “There are concerns about radiation. At Tarapur, where we have had 41 ...

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From TOI, 8 Jan, 2012 Developed by DRDO: 'Tulsi' to be used for anti-radiation medicine Added later: Following is really OT here, but I could not resist the temptation to add these lines here juat as a piece of interesting information: There is a beautiful composition by Saint Thyagaraja, in Telugu,...

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From DNA, 19 Dec 2011: The nuclear safety question Hearing a recent PIL against India’s current nuclear policy and the need for an independent nuclear egulator, the Supreme Court wanted to know about a few examples of an independent regulatory mechanism. Top nuclear expert A Gopalakrishnan presents ...

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. . . It is now past time to declare the entire KKM region and a radius of approx. 40Km around it as a "strategic national installation" and that trespassers will be dealt with with the full force of the law,the bullet.. . . I would suggest that we may go one step even further (than the b...

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Kudankulam nuclear plant can't be left to remain idle: PM While, for me, the other reasons for going ahead with KKNP, which have been cited by PM, as per the news report, are OK, I wish that the sentence quoted below had not been highlighted by him (even though it may be factually correct), for in ...

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"Conflict of interest" was very much in the news on 16/17 Dec 2011. Here is another I found

BBC says: India and Russia fail to extend nuclear plant plan

But The Hindu says: India, Russia agree on credit for Kudankulam Units 3, 4

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Panel to finalise report on Kudankulam N-plant . . . Meanwhile, officials of KNPP are baffled at the attitude of the district administration over their inspection of the plant site and the vehicles coming into the plant. “The protestors and officials board all our vehicles to check the number of pe...

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As losses mount, Areva goes in for huge job cuts . . . Areva's CEO, Luc Oursel, announced drastic job cutbacks and the sale of over €2 billion worth of assets , essentially in the company's uranium mines sector, to offset these losses. Trading in the company's stock was temporarily suspended on the...

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From The Hindu, December 13, 2011 According to Mr. Soli Sorabjee, Nuclear liability rules (are) ultra vires [/b] I do hope the foreign-supplier-friendly parts in the Rules as at present, do get struck down. If these liability rules have been framed to help indigenous suppliers, then I would recommen...

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8949993/Over-reliance-on-wind-farms-will-lead-to-power-cuts.html From the above link I found this interesting article: 1,500 incidents on UK wind farms 11 Dec 2011 . . . The scale of incidents – equivalent to almost one a day – emerges following the publicat...

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From Deccan Herald Chronicle, 5 Dec, 2011: 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 prote...

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SSridhar wrote:Nuclear Safety: Apex Court to Hear NGO's Petition Today

No order on PIL on nuclear safety, SC keeps the issue open

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Look who is saying what!! Seismologists draw parallel between Jaitapur, Koyna-Latur [quote]Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 26: A leading US-based researcher is of the view that the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant should be designed for future shaking of a magnitude of up to 6 on the Richter scale. [/q...

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Now, Thermal projects too! Land grab projects? http://www.frontlineonnet.com/images/20111202282411001.jpg Farmers and fisher folkat a rally protesting against the thermal power projects proposed in Tharangambadi in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, in December 2010. Apologies if this has already be...

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@ Sanatanan - It is analogous to the transfer of technology agreement that we have in military projects.. What came from Russia and what was locally sourced is obviously not in public domain. . Indian scientists have learnt a lot from this project. . I have not asked more details as I am presently ...

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** Deleted ** . . . .Most of the components in KNPP are indigenously sourced.. .. . . . I do not think this would be an accurate assessment with regard to Koodangulam reactors 1 and 2 (al least). It may be the other way around. Most of the components are imported from Russia. Indigenous inputs are ...

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Let me put this way - . . . 2. Has the govt taken any steps for protecting the Plant from any disasters including Tsunami? Why not build a Wall to protect any water coming into this plant similar to Japanese Tsunami walls? Possiblities to think about it. In this matter, I tried to follow the age ol...

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>>Coming back to Koodankulam plant, given the fact that the construction of the plant has been in progress since 1997 it is using a 15 years old technology. Hence, I doubt the plant would be equipped with all the latest Passive Core Cooling system and latest back- up mechanism(s) to handle a worst ...

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I wonder whether there is a jargon related misunderstanding of one of the Expert Committee's comments. The Expert Committee says: 2000 MW(e) electrical power generated from KKNPP Unit#1 and Unit#2 is exported through the 400 KV power transmission lines. The word "export" is, I think, a usu...

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Facebook helps fuel Koodankulam fire [quote]Revellers at the Besant Nagar beach, including a group of Americans , were taken by surprise on Sunday evening when placard-holding, pamphlet-distributing youth confronted them on the sands, seeking their signature for a memorandum against the setting up ...

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Post edited since the URL which I had earlier posted for the KKNP Expert Committee Report that has been submitted, does not work OK! If you are still interested please see http://www.thehindu.com/news/resources/article2642348.ece Added Later: This direct link seems to work now: Report of the Expert ...

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News item in Dinamalar (Tamil Daily) about the Koodangulam imbroglio. முரண்டு The headline above roughly translates to "Tantrum" in English, and I believe "जिद" in Hindi. The news item is about the intransigent approach taken by the protesters on the face of reasonable answers pr...

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Second round of KNPP talks end in stalemate

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Unfolding quid pro quo: Tamil Nadu plans to demand greater share of the power output from KKNP -- Dinamalar Tamil Daily, published on 16Nov 2011. (Article in tamil). Above headline translated by me (apologies for errors if any). Out of the 2000 MWe that will be generated when both reactors go on ful...

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‘We can allay the fears' Interview with Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy. From above linked article: Responding to a question, Dr. Banerjee says: . . . The State government will conduct the meetings . Our panel will answer the questio...

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EON profits plunge on nuclear pull-out EON, Germany's biggest power supplier, said Wednesday its profits fell sharply in the first nine months owing to the shutdown of power plants as part of Germany's policy to abandon nuclear energy. . . . EON blamed the drop in nine-month earnings to "adver...

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1. SC to hear PIL on proposed nuke plants

2. Supreme Court directs NGOs to approach PM on n-plants

An interesting 'Reader Comment' at the end of the news story No. 2 above:

By: Dev
On: 14 Nov 2011 01:32 pm

NGO barons made PIL a Publicity Interest Litigation

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With reactors, do we import manpower?
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What the Manmohan Singh government is selling as energy security is actually energy dependence. We are certainly headed towards a critical over dependence on foreign players for our energy needs.
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Centre orders probe into funding source of anti-Kudankulam stir

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Maintenance work at Koodankulam plant on: Narayanasamy Construction work at the controversial Koodankulam nuclear power plant has been stopped but essential maintenance activities are underway, Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy said. . . . "Construction work at the plant has been sto...

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Maintenance work at Koodankulam plant on: Narayanasamy Construction work at the controversial Koodankulam nuclear power plant has been stopped but essential maintenance activities are underway, Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy said. . . . "Construction work at the plant has been sto...

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