[rti4empowerment] Fw: KSMTF seeks closure of Kudankulam power plant

Nuke nuke power!
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Urvi
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From: "T Peter" <peter.ksmtf@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:34 AM
To: <xccajay@inapp.com>
Subject: KSMTF seeks closure of Kudankulam power plant

> KSMTF seeks closure of Kudankulam power plant
> Special Correspondent :November 2, 2011
> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article2590545.ece
> Expresses solidarity with agitating fishing community members
>
> The Kerala Swathantra Matsya Thozhilali Federation (KSMTF) has urged
> the State government to take steps to ensure that the Kudankulam
> nuclear power plant is closed down immediately.
>
> A pressnote quoting KSMTF leaders, who recently visited the site near
> the plant where thousands of people have been staging a sit-in,
> expressed solidarity with the members of the fishing community
> involved in the agitation.
>
> "The struggle is not just to protect the fish and the ocean from
> radiation; it is a struggle to protect the lives of the people in
> Kerala and Tamil Nadu," T. Peter, president of the federation, said.
> The pressnote said the plant posed a threat to prominent tourism sites
> such as Kanyakumari, Kovalam, Varkala, Kuttanad, and coastal
> Alappuzha.
>
> "The Atomic Energy Regulation Board has admitted in its recent report
> that there should be no tourism site within a radius of 20 km from the
> plant. The distance between Kudankulam and Kanyakumari is only 14 km,"
> Mr. Peter said.
>
> The pressnote feared that the plant would pollute marine resources and
> vegetables produced in Tamil Nadu and exported to Kerala. "We are
> fighting this battle not just for the fishing community," Mr. Peter
> said. "It is for the future generations."
>
> The federation ridiculed nuclear scientists vouching for the safety of
> the plant. "It is the same theory which was propagated at Three Mile
> Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima," leaders of the federation said.
>
> "An accident at Kudankulam will be unmanageable for the governments in
> Tamil Nadu and Kerala because of the density of population in the
> southern parts of the States," they said. "For those politicians who
> ask us for alternatives, we say there are safer alternatives," Mr.
> Peter said.
>
> "But first, let them tell us how they will dispose of radioactive
> waste in a safe manner, since no nuclear scientist anywhere so far can
> really say this honestly. The people of the western world will not
> tolerate one more nuclear plant in their countries, and some countries
> have already started decommissioning the existing plants. If you
> accept their technology, you have the responsibility to reject it when
> they reject it."
>
> The federation activists reminded MLAs in the State that they had a
> moral responsibility to protect the lives of the people who elected
> them.
>
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>
> •Says struggle to protect the lives of the people
> •'Plant will pollute marine resources, vegetables'
>

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