Japan

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

March 2012
Satoko Kishimoto

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 nuclear reactors.