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The People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy is an anti-nuclear power group in Tamil Nadu, India, founded by S. P. Udayakumar. Since September 2011 the aim of the group is to close the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant site and to preserve the largely untouched coastal landscape, as well as educate locals about nuclear power. [1] [2]
S. P. Udayakumar was born in 1959 in Nagercoil in Tamilnadu. [3] [4]He studied M. A. in Peace Studies from Notre Dame University, receiving the degree in 1990. [3] [5]In 1993, Udayakumar, along with wife Meera, purchased 15 acres of land near Nagercoil ("at the southern tip of India") and founded the South Asian Community Center for Education and Research (SACCER).
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
The orchestrator of gunfire attacks on power stations in North Carolina that left nearly an entire county without electricity for a second straight day knew "exactly" how to disable the stations ...
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Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (or Kudankulam NPP or KKNPP) is the largest [5] nuclear power station in India, situated in Kudankulam in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction on the plant began on 31 March 2002, [6] but faced several delays due to opposition from local fishermen.
The doomed V.C. Summer nuclear plant, a joint failed venture of SCE&G and Santee Cooper, sparked dozens of legal actions, lawsuits and a handful of civil and criminal fraud charges. The project ...
Terrorists could target nuclear power plants in an attempt to release radioactive contamination into the community. The United States 9/11 Commission has said that nuclear power plants were potential targets originally considered for the September 11, 2001 attacks.