India commits to nuclear power despite opposition
JUL 27, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025472
National Geographic : India’s plan to build the world’s largest nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, a port city 250 miles south of Mumbai, faces vigorous, sometimes violent opposition from the city’s inhabitants. And as National Geographic‘s Rebecca Byerly, the power plant serves as a focus for a wider debate within India about nuclear power. Most of India’s households lack direct access to electricity. Meeting that need through nuclear power is, according to the Indian government, the cleanest, cheapest option. Whether nuclear power is also the safest option is the principal point of contention, especially in the wake of the meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Dai’ichi power plant in March.
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