PMANE: Celebrate “World Oceans Day” on June 8 and Protect the Mother Ocean

Pictures of a recent sea-prayer

Pictures courtesy:
Antony Kebiston Fernando

 

People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) May 26, 2012
Idinthakarai & P. O. 627 104
Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu
Phone: 98656 83735; 98421 54073
koodankulam@yahoo.com
pushparayan@gmail.com

Celebrate “World Oceans Day” on June 8 and Protect the Mother Ocean

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The long-concealed and much-hidden Site Evaluation Report (SER) for the Koodankulam nuclear power project (in Tamil Nadu, India) has just been obtained after a long and arduous RTI and legal fight. Among other things, the Report reveals that the liquid waste from the Koodankulam nuclear plants will “be diluted” and “discharged into the sea.” It is clearly established that the radioactivity in the liquid waste of 6000 mCu/year from two units will be removed in the Ion exchange resin and as evaporator concentrate. It will be further diluted by condenser cooling water to meet the AERB (Atomic Energy Regulatory Board) limits and discharged into the sea.

Now can you imagine the amount of liquid waste that will be dumped by six to eight nuclear plants at Koodankulam, and the other mega nuclear projects by the sea at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, Kovvada in Andhra Pradesh, Haripur in West Bengal, Jaitapur in Maharashtra, and Mithi Virdi in Gujarat. Our beloved Indian Ocean will soon become one big nuclear dumpsite.