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India’s appetite for uranium is growing rapidly. It has 22 nuclear power reactors that produce 3 per cent of its electricity, but the government wants to take this share to 25 per cent by 2050. As the villages are in a Fifth Schedule area, they are governed by a special administrative system, and any exploratory…

Justice in India is fragile when it comes to the topic of anti-uranium protesting. Saiku Chaki, a senior activist and Ex UCIL-employee, was murdered in his home in the UCIL Turamidh colony. The police filed a case against 25 named and 300 unnamed persons for assembling at the police station when the body was taken…

According to “Anti Atom Indien“, a uranium transport from Bagjata to Jadugoda in India has been stopped by a group of armed men at Mai 7th 2014. Since then, no more uranium was transported from the mine in Bagjata to the mill in Jadugoda.

The Dark Underbelly of Uranium Mining in India, by Anuj Wankhede. It is one of India’s best kept secrets. This is the story of genocide. After over 50 years of Independence, there is another India which nobody talks about. Why? Because nobody knows or wants to know about Jaduguda.

  Around 4,500 people of 28 villages boycotted Environment Public Hearing following breach of promise by Government officials   The Bhavnagar District Collector who chaired the Environment Public Hearing(EPH) for the 6,000 MW Nuclear Power Plant at Mithi Virdi to be set up by the ‘Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited’ and Mr A V…

Jaitapur’s French-built nuclear plant is a disaster in waiting,jeopardising biodiversity and local livelihoods, says activist Praful Bidwaiby Praful BidwaiThe EcologistFebruary 9, 2011 The global “nuclear renaissance” touted a decade ago has not materialised. The US’s nuclear industry remains starved of new reactor orders since 1973, and western Europe’s first reactor after Chernobyl (1986) is in…

by Debarshi Dasgupta Outlook (India) March 28, 2011 Recent events in Japan have indeed shaken the faith of many who pray at the altar of nuclear energy. In an article for a business daily, even Shyam Saran, who was India’s top negotiator for the Indo-US nuclear deal, has said the “nuclear renaissance” could be dead…

Date: 28.03.2011 09:17 “Among the nuclear power plants on the anvil is the one at Jaitapur, coastal Maharashtra. It will house reactors from the French firm Areva and shall have a combined capacity of 10,000 MW. But in 20 years, as many as 92 quakes have been recorded here, with the severest of them in…