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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]
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.
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).
After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Poovulagin Nanbargal filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Madras High Court in October 2011 to stop the commission of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. [7] In August 2012, the court accepted the Nuclear Power Corporation of India's
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.
In 2005, the government of India unveiled a bold scheme to bring its poorest citizens into the 21st century. It would commission a series of coal-fired power plants — each with seven times the capacity of its average U.S. counterpart — that would provide cheap electricity in a country where one-third of the population lives off the grid.
The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency on Sunday condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, saying such ...
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