STOP KUDANKULAM REACTOR TO CREATE A MAN MADE NATIONAL DISASTER AND ECONOMIC BANKRUPTCY
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t is shocking that when the case against public safety and risks of nuclear reactors at Kudankulam is under legal examination in the Supreme Court the Union Minister of state Mr.Narayana Swamy is repeatedly declaring that the nuclear plant will start functioning from the end of December, 2012. This clearly shows that neither the Union Government nor the Tamil Nadu state Government have any ethical or moral values and hence they are planning to violate all the environmental norms and safety norms as enunciated by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the National Disaster Management Authority of India guidelines for nuclear plants. The Prime Minister is playing a double game by promoting nuclear power at any cost by the Department of Atomic Energy under his control while he is simultaneously uttering falsehoods by declaring to the people of the country that he will not compromise with the nuclear safety at any cost. The same person is contradicting himself by playing a double game. People all over the world know that nuclear safety is a myth in the wake of the major accidents at Chernobyl in Russia in April 1986and by the nuclear explosions at Fukushima in Japan during March 2011. Japan Government is paying Rs.3 lakh crores as compensation to the victims of the Fukushima accident for the present and this financial burden it should be paid by the nuclear industry as per the basic principles of liability based upon the principle of polluter must pay for his sins of omission and commission. But instead of the polluter being asked to pay this compensation caused by the mistake committed by people in his own organization. He is influencing the Government to pay for this cause and then recover the amount by increasing the taxes for electricity to be paid by the public. Even in the case of kudnakulam nuclear plant the initial cost of the plant is only Rs.14,000 crores while the costs of compensation to be paid in case of an accident will be more than Rs. 3 lakh crores and thereby the Government is proving that the costs of compensation to be paid by the public will be more than 20 times the intial cost of the Kudankulam reactors and thereby the country will be pushed into economic bankruptcy besides slowly poisoning millions of people, cattle population and all other forms of life in the southern districts of Tamilnadu and Kerala. Moreover the constant release of tritium another radioactive substance whose half life is 12 years will continue to poison the fisheries wealth for over a century in the coastal areas of Tamilnadu and Kerala. The nuclear plant authorities including the Atomic Energy regulatory board and the nuclear power corporation of India have unashamedly admitted that they are going to violate the safety norms formulated by the International Atomic Energy Agencyand Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India by announcing that with regard to implementation of nuclear safety at the 5th level comprising the off-site disaster management , planning and execution the entire work will have to be shoulder by the Tamilnadu state Government and the District Collector who do not know even the alphabets of what is meant by safety of nuclear power and how to present risk analysis and disaster scenarios due to major accidents and how to execute a disaster management plans when the accidents are bound to take place in the long run on line similar to those at Chernobyl and Fukushima explosions. The American nuclear regulatory commission prepared the disaster management plans for the Fukushima accident and used the resulting data to find out the safe distances beyond the hazardous contaminated areas for evacuation of the resident Americans in Japan and protect their public health and welfare consequently they directed the Americans in Japan to go outside the limits of 80kms from the Fukushima area to ensure their safety. Japanese themselves evacuated people within 20km of the plant initially and increased this distance to 30 miles a few days later and finally directed the victims of nuclear pollution to stay indoors from 50km and above. But in the case of Kudankulam nuclear plant the authorities have declared that they will take care of evacuation and rehabilitation only upto about 5km from the plant and thereafter the off-site disaster management plan must be prepared and executed by the local District Collector and the Tamil Nadu state Government by taking advise from the nuclearplant authorities. This process of consultation between the state and central Governemnt officials will never work in India under the existing conditions of work culture where the transparency of working is placed at a very poor level by the International investigative agencies. For Kudankulam plant the mock drill conducted is based on only hypocrisy and deceit whereas the emergency evacuation plans due to nuclear accidents in USA for the Indiana nuclear plant near New York is done on scientific lines to safeguard public interest as can be seen from the following website. http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1114/ML11140A147.pdf
In case of Kudankulam nuclear plant even these guidelines for emergency response plans are not done as suggested by the Madras High Court in their judgement in the case relating to safety of Kudankulam nuclear plant. The mock drills conducted on 9-6-2012 have not been done by following the guidelines established by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has presentedin the following website

http://www.aerb.gov.in/t/sj/Siting.pdf
http://nidm.gov.in/PDF/guidelines/nuclear_radiological_emergencies.pdf (See chapter-6)
http://tshivajirao.blogspot.in/2012/02/kudankulam-nuclear-bomb-over-tamilnadu.html
On a perusal of all these documents and the affidavits filed by the nuclear plant authorities at Kudankulam and the Tamilnadu state Government agencies it is clearly seen that eventhough the Madras High Court directedthem to conduct mock drills on emergency evacuation in case of an accident covering not only one village as was done on 9-6-2012 the exercise must be conducted by involving the local people to cover about 40 villages located within a radius of 30km from the Kudankulam nuclear plant. Even this guideline is being violated by the Tamilnadu state Government and the nuclear plant authorities and thereby they are machining this Kudankulam plant a prescription for a major disaster waiting in the wings and this accident scenario will not be inferior to the previous accident scenarios that occurred at Chernobyl, Fukushima nuclear plants and the major Indian disaster at Bhopal in 1984. Since nuclear power is not only very costly but also very unsafe as confirmed by the heads of the countries like Germany and Japan who decided to remove all nuclear power plans during the next 2 to 3 decades. Tamilnadu and Indian Government must stop loading the nuclear fuel into the reactors and alternately use these nuclear platns to produce electricity by using much cheaper and highly safer alternate fules like natural gas, oil, lignite coal from Tamilnadu or imported coal to ensure sustainable development of Tamil Nadu and the nation.