Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board cautions, based on the sparse specifics available in the public domain and comments by authority figures that the government may be concealing information about the magnitude of the accident at KAPS (Kakrapar Atomic Power Station) Unit 1
KAPS Kakrapar Nuclear plant is likely undergoing a loss-of-coolant incident Read More »
On the day after ASN (The Nuclear Safety Authority in France) quietly published the findings of a serious fault in the reactor built by Areva at Flamanville, headlines in India proclaimed our
When news like Fukushima hits, people start thinking of nuclear radiation leaks. Then, mistakenly, they imagine that risk from radiation is a very rare thing. While accidents on such a
Radiation leaks news in the last one year Read More »
Recently, FirstPost, which is a kind of news media thing published an article titled “Why the Kudankulam protesters have it all wrong” which ought to have been an informative thing
There is a prevailing fiction actively promoted by the government that Nuclear Energy is the only way out of the energy crisis for India. Every time I write about issues
Debunking the Myth of the Necessity of Nuclear Energy Read More »
This kind of takes over the history from the previous post. The Chernobyl disaster happened on the 26th of April 1986. It took a while for the news to spread, but by
The Conquest of Koodankulam Read More »
The last post ends with a table of nuclear incidents in India. The thing is that when it comes to radiation, there isn’t too much difference between clean and safe.
Clean, Safe, Cheap Nuclear Power – Part 2: The Safe Read More »
“Uraniam found in 241 water samples” the headline could have screamed, but it didn’t. It made modest appearance and slid into obscurity, unheralded on the news site’s social networks. This
A Radioactive Silence Read More »
If I can direct what you think, I can control your conclusion. It is like blinkers on a horse. A horse able to see only in one direction is less
The Blinkers and mental eploitation. Read More »
