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    “The Japanese population won’t accept it any longer”
    March 2012

    On March 11, it’s exactly one year ago that North-Eastern Japan was hit by a major earthquake and a tsunami with giant 15 meter waves. One of the devastating consequences was a meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear power plant – the biggest nuclear disaster in 25 years. How is the situation today?...

    Japan’s role in global water: big choice ahead
    August 2011
    Satoko Kishimoto

    Japanese water companies should avoid investing in for-profit water service ventures abroad, and should focus on non-profit, public-public partnerships instead.

    Nukes and India
    June 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    Have our rulers decided to place India on the wrong side of history and arrest her social progress? Going by their policy of forcibly promoting nuclear power regardless of its hazards, environmental damage potential, high economic and social costs, and unpopularity, that seems to be the case.

    A test for India’s foreign policy
    June 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    While countries all over the world review their nuclear energy plans and safety measures in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the Indian government still pushes ahead with it's fiercely opposed Jaitapur plant.

    South Asia's misplaced confidence in nuclear technology
    April 2011
    Zia Mian
     A.H. Nayyar, M.V. Ramana

    There are 20 nuclear power plants in India, two in Pakistan and plans exist to expand the industry across South Asia; yet there are always multiple risks that exist as a result of the technology that cannot be mitigated.

    Learning from Fukushima: India must put nuclear power on hold
    April 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    As the Japanese nuclear crisis escalates in severity, and the myth about nuclear energy being safe is exposed - movements around the world are calling for a change of policy and moratoriums on plant construction.

    Lessons from Fukushima
    March 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    As the global nuclear industry's fate hangs in the balance, India must rethink its nuclear power expansion plans and impose a moratorium on new reactors.

    Learning from Disaster? After Sendai
    March 2011
    Richard Falk

    Despite a terrible history with nuclear technology, corporate and state actors try to disconnect these mega disasters from the energy industry in order to "normalise" that which continues threatens our very existance.

    Indian anti-nuclear group demands moratorium on new reactor construction
    March 2011
    Achin Vanaik
    Praful Bidwai
     Anil Chaudhary

    Around a hundred thousand people perished in Chernobyl. The toll from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima is likely to be high. The CNDP demands a moratorium on all further civilian nuclear activities in India and thorough review and transparent audit of the safety performance of all...

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