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Video-Beschreibung von Pradeep Indulkar – 20.07.2013

Tarapur Nuclear Power Plant is India’s first nuclear power plant established around 50 years ago, displacing few villages near town named Tarapur. Once a protagonist visits those villages. He observes the situation of thousands of displaced people and he finds that the displaced people lost their land, homes, sea and almost everything but they didn’t get proper compensation, instead they got many deceases, which were unknown to them earlier.

Earthquake Risk To Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (Prof Roger Bilham)

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Video-Beschreibung von SatyenBordoloi – 12.01.2012

Greenpeace brought noted geologist Professor Dr. Roger Bilham of the University of Colarado, who has published a paper in Current Science, a reputed science journal, on earthquake risk in Jaitapur. His paper indicates that a high magnitude earthquake cannot be ruled out in Jaitapur. Here he explains why.

While briefing the audience, Dr. Bilham said, „Since Jaitapur lies in the same compressional stress regime that has been responsible for generating both the Mw=6.3 Latur and the Mw=6.4 Koyna earthquakes in the past five decades it can be argued that a similar sized could possibly occur directly beneath the power plant. The probability of this earthquake occurring is low but it is nevertheless possible, and is an important consideration in the design of a safe power plant.“

He added that it was not possible to confidently say that an earthquake of a high magnitude would not occur in Jaitpur as one needs to examine reliable data spanning many centuries in order to do so. This is due to the long gaps between earthquakes. With regard to Jaitapur, the available data that can be relied upon only extends to last 200 years — a small time in geological history“.

The Jaitapur area comes under Ratnagiri district which falls in the seismic zone 4 (High damage) category with zone 5 being the highest (2). The area has witnessed 92 earthquakes within 1985 to 2005 (3).

You can download his paper here: Historical and future seismicity near Jaitapur, India.pdf

More information on the event: http://www.greenpeace.org/india/en/Press/US-Geologist-speaks-of-earthquake-risk-in-Jaitapur/

This is a recording of a press conference held at the press club in Mumbai on the 12th of Jan.

Atomtechnik: Deutsches Geld für Reaktoren in Indien?

taz – 16.12.2011

Atomtechnik: Deutsches Geld für Reaktoren in Indien?

Nach der Zusage an Brasilien hoffen nun weitere Schwellenländer auf Exportkreditgarantien. Die Anfragen beziehen sich auf weitere AKW-Projekte in Indien und China. …

ngo-online – 16.12.2011

Halbherzigkeit beim Atomausstiegs
Atomausstieg: falsches Spiel der Bundesregierung

Die Bundesregierung hat auf die schriftliche Frage des Grünen Bundestagsabgeordneten Sven-Christian Kindler mitgeteilt, dass es Anfragen für Bürgschaften für die Atom-Projekte Wylfa in Großbritannien, Pyhäjoki in Finnland und Jaitapur in Indien gibt. Darüber hinaus gibt es Anträge für Zulieferungen zu einem AKW-Neubau in China und bereits eine Grundsatzzusage für das Atomkraftwerk Angra 3 in Brasilien. …

spiegel online – 16.12.2011

Trotz Energiewende – Deutsche Atomindustrie bittet um Staatshilfe

Deutsche AKW-Bauer beweisen Chuzpe: Obwohl die Bundesrepublik aus der Kernenergie aussteigt, fordern die Firmen nach SPIEGEL-Informationen staatliche Hilfe bei Projekten im Ausland. NGO-Vertreter warnen die Regierung nun davor, „den Boden für ein neues Fukushima zu bereiten“. …