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References i “India To Achieve 20,000 MW Nuclear Power Production Target By 2020”, Feb 19, 2009, http://www.india- server.com ii Integrated Energy Policy, 2006, http://planningcommission.nic.in., p. 22; Devirupa Mitra, “India’s Nuclear Power Corp targets 63,000 MW by 2032”, Oct 8, 2009, http://www.thaindian.com iii M. V. Ramana, “The Future of Nuclear Power in India”, April 1, 2010, http://princeton.academia.edu iv Jeremy Page, “India promises 12,000% boost in nuclear capacity by 2050”, The Sunday Times, Sept 30, 2009, http://www.allvoices.com v CEA, http://www.cea.nic.in vi “35 pc power from n-plants by 2050: Kakodkar”, Oct 14, 2008, http://www.indianexpress.com vii Yogesh Pawar, “Tarapur an example of clean, economic and safe energy: Manmohan Singh”, Jan 8, 2011, http://www.dnaindia.com; viii “Statement by the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh at the Nuclear Security Summit”, April 13, 2010, Embassy of India, Washington DC, http://www.indianembassy.org/prdetail1501/statement-by-theprime-minister-of-india-dr.-manmohan-singh-at-the-nuclear-security-summit-ix “Statement by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in Parliament on his Visit to the United States”, July 29, 2005, Press Release, Embassy of India, Washington DC, http://www.indianembassy.org x “Tarapur Atomic Power Station 3&4 Dedicated to the Nation”, Nuclear India, Vol. 41, Sept.-Oct. 2007, http://www.dae.gov.in/ni/nisep07/ni.pdf xi Darryl D'Monte, “Politics of power plants: Is Jaitapur a safe game?”, Jan 28, 2011, http://southasia.oneworld.net xii “Government, experts back Jaitapur project”, Jan 19, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com xiii Darryl D'Monte, “Politics of power plants: Is Jaitapur a safe game?”, Jan 28, 2011, http://southasia.oneworld.net; “Government, experts back Jaitapur project”, Jan 19, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com xiv “Jaitapur N-project: Chavan allays fears over safety”, Jan 18, 2011, http://www.zeenews.com/news681318.html xv Chittaranjan Tembhekar, “Jaitapur locals boycott meet with Chavan, scientists”, TNN, Jan 19, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com xvi Darryl D'Monte, “Politics of power plants: Is Jaitapur a safe game?”, Jan 28, 2011, http://southasia.oneworld.net; “Government, experts back Jaitapur project”, Jan 19, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com xvii Chittaranjan Tembhekar, “Jaitapur locals boycott meet with Chavan, scientists”, TNN, Jan 19, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com xviii Lison Joseph, “Protests hold up uranium mining projects in Andhra, Meghalaya”, June 20, 2008, http://www.livemint.com xix “Kakodkar to hold talks on uranium mining in Meghalaya”, August 22, 2008, http://www.rediff.com xx For more information on Kudankulam struggle: Praful Bidwai and M. V. Ramana, “Indian Mega Nuclear Plant Protested: Government short-circuits environmental hearings”, June 14 and 23, 2007, http://www.japanfocus.org/-MV-Ramana/2449; Patibandla Srikant , “Koodankulam Anti-Nuclear Movement: A Struggle for Alternative Development? ”, The Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, http://www.isec.ac.in/WP%20232%20- %20P%20Srikant.pdf xxi For more on Haripur struggle: Rina Mukherji, “No to Nuclear Plant”, Mar 2007 Edition, http://www.civilsocietyonline.com; Achintyarup Ray, “A Nuclear Flashpoint”, TNN, Oct 26, 2009, http://www.cndpindia.org; “National Meet Against Nuclear Power”, http://www.doccentre.net/Announcements/National-Meet-Against-Nuclear-Power.php xxii “Popular Resistance stops site preparations for NPP in India”, Nuclear Monitor, June 18, 2010, http://www.nirs.org/mononline/nm712.pdf xxiii “Atoms for Peace”, http://www.u-s-history.com xxiv Facts taken from: “Nuclear power”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Dec 1, 2010. xxv Facts taken from: “Nuclear power”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Dec 1, 2010. xxvi Antony Froggatt and Mycle Schneider, “The global nuclear decline”, China Dialogue, Jan 7, 2008, http://www.chinadialogue.net 180
xxvii I. Semendeferi, “Legitimating a Nuclear Critic: John Gofman, Nuclear Safety, and Cancer Risks”, 2008, http://www.deepdyve.com; “Anti-nuclear movement in the United States”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Dec 1, 2010. xxviii “Environment: The Struggle over Nuclear Power”, TIME, March 8, 1976, http://www.time.com; “Antinuclear movement in the United States”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Dec 1, 2010. xxix Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009”, Commissioned by German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety, August 2009, pp. 91-92. xxx “Nuclear power”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Dec 1, 2010. xxxi Praful Bidwai, “No global ‘nuclear renaissance’, only limited nuclear power expansion in India”, March 2010, http://www.prafulbidwai.org xxxii Cited in: “Nuclear Energy no Solution to Climate Change: A background paper”, http://archive.greenpeace.org xxxiii Praful Bidwai, “No global ‘nuclear renaissance’, only limited nuclear power expansion in India”, op. cit. xxxiv “Nuclear power”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Dec 1, 2010. xxxv Tyson Slocum, “Nuclear’s Power Play: Give Us Subsidies or Give Us Death”, Multinational Monitor, Sep/Oct 2008, http://www.multinationalmonitor.org xxxvi This figure obtained by adding up the the figures given in the following two articles: Tyson Slocum, “Nuclear’s Power Play: Give Us Subsidies or Give Us Death”, ibid. and Judy Pasternak, “Nuclear energy lobby working hard to win support”, Jan 24, 2010, http://investigativereportingworkshop.org xxxvii Mike Stuckey, “New nuclear power ‘wave’ — or just a ripple?”, Jan 23, 2007, http://www.msnbc.msn.com xxxviii Judy Pasternak, “Nuclear energy lobby working hard to win support”, op. cit. xxxix Mike Stuckey, “New nuclear power ‘wave’ — or just a ripple?”, op. cit. xl Praful Bidwai, “No global ‘nuclear renaissance’, only limited nuclear power expansion in India”, op. cit. xli “Nuclear lobby buoyant as Europe warms up to atomic energy”, Deutsche Welle, May 19, 2009, http://www.dw-world.de xlii Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, Melbourne University Press, 2006, p. xvii. xliii “The Secret Pro-Nuclear Push In British Schools”, Dec 15, 2008, http://www.sourcewatch.org xliv See for example: “MEP-turned-lobbyist shuns voluntary register”, May 20, 2009, http://brusselsbubble.blogspot.com xlv “G8 Statement Supports Nuclear”, Sept 2009, http://www.nei.org; “G8 Summit Reaffirms Support for IAEA’s Work”, July 10, 2009, http://www.iaea.org xlvi “Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2030”, IAEA, 2010 edition, http://www-pub.iaea.org xlvii Roland M. Frye, Jr, “The Current Nuclear Renaissance in the United States, Its Underlying Reasons, and Its Potential Pitfalls”, Energy Law Journal, 2008, http://www.felj.org xlviii Strictly speaking, Plutonium does occur naturally, in very low concentrations: see “Do transuranic elements such as plutonium ever occur naturally?” Mar 23, 1998, http://www.scientificamerican.com xlix See Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, Melbourne University Press, 2006, pp. 12-13; “Decommissioning The Nuclear Power Industry: Rubble, Rubble, Toil And Trouble”, http://www.nirs.org/mononline/decommiss.htm l Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, ibid., p. 14. li “Nuclear power”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Jan 10, 2011. lii This is so even in the US. See for example: Robert Alvarez, “Advice for the Blue Ribbon Commission”, March 24, 2010, http://www.thebulletin.org; also: “Nuclear power”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed on Jan 10, 2011. liii “Nuclear Power Reactors in the World”, IAEA Reference Data Series No. 2, 2010 Edition. liv “President Bush’s Radio Address Focuses on Energy Issues”, Feb 18, 2006, http://www.energy.gov/news/3222.htm lv “Nuclear energy safe and clean: US envoy”, June 6, 2008, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal lvi “Manmohan Singh wants public to develop faith in nuclear safety”, ANI, Sept 30, 2009, http://trak.in/news; “Nuclear energy essential for India: Manmohan Singh”, March 24, 2008, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal lvii See for instance: “N-power the new green fuel, says PM’s scientific adviser, Aug 13, 2009, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal lviii Cited in Stephen Lendman, “Global Warming Beats Global Poisoning”, Aug 8, 2006, http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile 181
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