India has safer alternatives for energy, it must shun nukes by admin_dianuke

Should nukes be nullified?

Antony P U | Deccan Herald

Even as the brouhaha over the Kudankulam nuclear project is yet to die down, there is a lot of debate in general about how environment-friendly nuclear energy is. The country already has six nuclear plants – Narora in Uttar Pradesh with a capacity to produce 440 megawatt energy, Rawatbhata in Rajasthan (2,580 MW), Kakrapar in Gujarat (1,840 MW), Tarapur in Maharashtra (1,400 MW), Kaiga in Karnataka (880 MW) and Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu (940 MW).

Seven more nuclear plants have been proposed – Kumhariya in Haryana, Bargi in Madhya Pradesh, Mithi Virdi in Gujarat, Haripur in West Bengal, Jaitapur in Maharashtra, Kovvada in AP and Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu.