Small Modular Reactors: Will they change anything?
In her 2024 Union Budget speech, the Finance Minister said, "Nuclear energy is expected to form a very significant part of the energy mix of Viksit Bharat. Towards that pursuit,…
Nuclear Energy
The Fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Dangers of Nuclear Energy
The dangers of nuclear energy were understood when the WW2 Allied Forces feared that Hitler’s Germany would produce and use a nuclear bomb, to conclude WW2 in his favour. It…
Dutton’s Quixotic Proposal: Nuclear Lunacy Down Under
Politics and facts are not necessarily good dinner companions. Both often stray from the same table, taking up with other, more suitable company. The Australian opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has…
Atomic Energy – Costs and Benefits in Germany
A recent study on Germany’s billion-dollar atomic energy supply and power stations that are now in the process of being decommissioned still warns against the unprecedented risks of atomic energy.…
The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
With the planet teetering on the brink of climate disaster and the goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 rapidly slipping away, the need for alternatives to pollutive fossil fuels has never been…
COP28’s Unrealistic Tripling of Nuclear Power
UN climate conferences since 1992 have failed to follow thru with results, as CO2 emissions continue higher and higher with every passing year. In fact, post climate conference impact of…
Flirting With Nuclear Energy Down Under
It was a policy that was bound to send a shiver through the policymaking community. The issue of nuclear energy in Australia has always been a contentious one. Currently, the…
Why the Hurry in Acquiring Land for the Kovvada Nuclear Power Project?
To Ms Leena Nandan Secretary Union Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MEFCC) Dr A K Mohanty Secretary Dept of Atomic Energy (DAE) Govt of India Dear…
Westinghouse’s Vogtle nuclear power reactors- Huge time/cost overruns- Likely implications for proposed Kovvada nuclear power project in AP
To Dr A K Mohanty Chairman Dept of Atomic Energy (DAE) Govt of India Dear Dr Mohanty, I refer to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL)'s proposed (6 X…
The Nuclear Energy Trap
Nuclear reactors are directly in the line of fire of global warming. In fact, nuclear reactors cannot survive global warming. But that’s only the start of serious issues with the…
Nuclear Turns Fashionable
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress, as America’s representatives see SMRs as a big answer to energy needs and reduction of greenhouse…
Chernobyl Alert and The Doomsday Clock
Like the mythical Phoenix, Chernobyl rises from the ashes. A recent… “Surge in fission reactions in an inaccessible chamber within the complex” is alarming scientists that monitor the ruins of…
Nuclear Fuel Buried 108 Feet from the Sea
“The most toxic substance on Earth is separated from exposure to society by ½” of steel encased in a canister.” (Blanch) That eye-opener comes from renowned nuclear expert Paul Blanch…
Ten Years After Fukushima: The Experts Examine Lessons Learned and Forgotten
Written by Ali Ahmad, Aditi Verma, Francesca Giovannini A decade later, the footage of the dramatic hydrogen explosions in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, broadcast live on television—and the…
Despite Hiroshima, Despite So Many Accidents, Nuclear Weapons Must For National Security: Dr R Chidambaram
Dr Rajagopala Chidambaram, one of India’s distinguished experimental physicists having immense contribution in developing the country as a formidable nuclear power, inspired generations of scientists in making outstanding contributions…
Nuclear Power Plant In Gujarat Shifted To AP, Agitators Say ‘Not Here, Not Anywhere’
The Centre has told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that the 6,000 MW nuclear power plant proposed at Mithivirdi in Gujarat will be shifted to Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh due…
With All Chips Down, Modi Tries Selling A Swadeshi Nuclear Dream To India
The recent announcement that India will build 10 new Nuclear reactors took observers by surprise. In technical terms, India will set up ten new pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) which…
The Mother Of All Promises And How Science Failed To Maintain It
In the 1950s, during the high times of the "atomic age", someone had the unfortunate idea of claiming that nuclear technologies would give us, one day, "energy too cheap to…
Montreal Declaration For Nuclear Fission Free World
By Global Network for a nuclear-free world. As citizens of this planet inspired by the Second Thematic World Social Forum for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World, conducted in Montreal from August 8…
Illegal Reactor Experiments At The Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant, India
What is being done at KKNPP-1 is known as ‘power up-rate experiment’ defined as “the operation beyond the power level licensed by the regulatory body” (IAEA). There are three types…
Koodankulam: Transfer Of A Failed And Unsafe Reactor Through Video Conference Between Kremlin And Delhi
On 5th August 2016, the Russian News Agency TASS reported from Moscow that on 10 August 2016, “the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will…
Hiroshima Day – ” A Call For Sustaining Life On Earth “
Life on earth can be sustained by closing down all nuclear power plants and dismantling all nuclear war heads. The nuclear war heads present on earth are capable of destroying…
Poison In The Heart: The Nuclear Wasting Of South Australia
"Nuclear weapons and nuclear power are both leading instances of the irrationalities that result from a social world that has been constructed to concentrate power in the hands of tiny…
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