There are two headlines I see in news from India.
Scrap Kudankulam nuclear plant project:
OTOH there is also:Demanding that the Centre immediately scrap the Kudankulam Nuclear power project, activist Swami Agnivesh today demanded that a high-level panel should visit the KNPP site to address fears of locals there.
"I demand that the government scrap the plant and initiate an alternative source of clean energy. An independent panel, comprising national and international experts of credible records, should visit the site and a public hearing should be held," he told reporters after visiting KNPP in Tamil Nadu.
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"Why has Russia given up on nuclear energy after the Chernobyl disaster and not a single plant has been set up? Why has Japan, a technologically advanced country, decided to dismantle all nuclear power plants in the near future after Fukushima?
"Why has Germany, another highly-industrialised country, decided to go non-nuclear for its energy requirements and dismantle their existing plants by 2020?," he asked to validate his point.
Agnivesh criticised former President A P J Abdul Kalam for giving a clean chit to KNPP and claimed that eminent geologists and nuclear scientists had told him that the project was not at all safe for an atomic plant.
He alleged that the Tamil Nadu government had not taken precautionary steps in Kudankulam area in the wake of the tsunami alert issued yesterday.
Kudankulam one of safest reactors, Lanka's fears unfounded: India's nuclear chief
We also have had vigorous debates and have quoted everyone from Busby to Bhabha.The chief of India's nuclear energy program, Dr Srikumar Banerjee, has said that Sri Lanka's fears over the nuclear plant in Kudankulam are unfounded. Mr Banerjee has also asserted that the plant, located in Tamil Nadu, has one of the world's safest reactors.
"There should be no concerns on safety. The safety analysis of the plant is complete. Kudankulam has one of the world's safest nuclear reactors," Mr Banerjee told NDTV. He added that "India has already inked an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) convention that provides a frame work for addressing trans-boundary concerns if an accident happens. India's nuclear liability law also addresses these concerns." Mr Banerjee is the Chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission.
We have on one hand, very popular work like: Dooms Day Machine
On other hand, We are seeing Ads from NEI:Nuclear Energy: Cleaner, Safer and Made in America
(One can substitute India for America )
On one hand we have: Experts like Busby who are/were treated as hero *many many* times here in brf (see for example many many post(s) around here
-- give expert testimony -
How dangerous a typical accident was
OTOH we have other experts who tell us:
Ignorance about Nuclear Power is Killing Us
So, when all is said and done, what should be done?