India: Villagers Wail Against Nuclear Power

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[font size="1"]Fishermen and their families protesting against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. Credit K. S. Harikrishnan/IPS[/font]


KUDANKULAM, India, Jan 6 2013 (IPS) - Mahalakshmi, a housewife married to a farmer, is afraid for her family’s future. The fifty-two-year-old woman is also frustrated that Indian authorities have “betrayed” poor villagers.

A huge nuclear power plant under the control of the government-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is the source of her woes.

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP), situated 24 kilometres from the world famous tourist town of Kanyakumari on the southern tip of the Indian peninsula, is likely to be commissioned this month.

Speaking to IPS, Mahalakshmi and dozens of women in Kudankulam, a village in the Tirunelveli district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, charged that the energy project would ruin their futures, homes and livelihoods. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/01/villagers-wail-against-nuclear-power/

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1. I recently returned from India and will NEVER go back

The government is so corrupt and little is done to improve the lives of most of the countries people. It is dirty, corrupt, disrespectful of women, and... .