Warm greetings to you. Your latest E-mail about Dr. Kalam is most welcome. I suppose Dr. Kalam thinks too much of himself to the extent of being self-righteous. He is grossly mistaken to believe that whatever he says is GOSPEL TRUTH At times I suspect HIM TO REMAIN ALWAYS IN THE GOOD BOOKS OF THE GOVERNMENT I BLUNTLY ADD HE LOOKS ARROGANT TOO.Incidentaly I have been an abiding student of M. Gandhi for the last more than five decades. No exaggeration i have written and got published two books (1) " A HANDBOOK OF SARVODYA" IN TWO PARTS RUNNING INTO MORE THAN 480 PAGES AND PRICED AT RS. 150/- 920 " THE GANDHIAN CONCEPT OF PRACTICAL NON-VIOLENCE" RUNNING INTO 200 PAGES AND PUBLISHED BY ST. PAUL CENTER ,BANDRA AND PRICED AT RS150/-. THE MORE OF IT LATER ON. WHERE DO YOU LIVE? I RESIDE IN SOUTH MUMBAI AND AN ADVOCATE BY PROFESSION.YOU MAY REPLY AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Sukla Sen <sukla.sen@gmail.com> wrote:
The anti-KNPP strggle is being waged under the banners of People's
Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) and National Alliance of
Anti-nuclear Movements (NAAM) - two secular organisations.
Dr. S P Udayakumar is the leading figure in both these organisations.
Sukla
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On 13/11/2011, vasant sardesai <vasant_sardesai@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> The interferance of Christian group supporting the agitation has made it a
> suspect. Otherwise why should a religious group support the agitation?
>
> V. S. Sardesai
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> --- On Sun, 13/11/11, S kumar <kumar_8134@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: S kumar <kumar_8134@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [media_monitor5] Re: [issuesonline_worldwide] India: Low-level
> nuclear deception
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> Date: Sunday, 13 November, 2011, 11:45 AM
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> UPA, keen to get the Koodankulam imbroglio solved, with the indomitable CM
> of Tamilnadu not in favour of the commissioning of the project unless local
> people are convinced of the safety of the reactors and with increasing
> protests from locals, perhaps asked Dr.Kalam to use his influence, being a
> Tamil himself, to impress upon the agitators of the safety norms adopted.
> His first visit was only up to Chennai and he returned to Delhi, again sent
> back at PM's instance which he could not ignore.
>
> It appears that the ready made report of Dr.Kalam presented has not
> impressed the locals and agitation continues.
>
> Narayanaswamy, Minister in PM's office attempted to divert the attention by
> blaming the Christian Clergy for the agitation, but was denied by the
> organisers who were local and surrounding villages, though at a later stage
> the Clergy from farther areas too joined.
>
> Now Narayanaswamy has harped on the funding for this agitation and its
> source to attempt to use the Govt. forces to act in the matter to throttle
> the funds sustaining the agitation.
>
> ......Kalam not qualified to talk about Pokhran II: Sethna- Last updated on:
> September 01, 2009 21:33 IST...
>
> ...Homi Sethna, the guiding force behind India's first nuclear test in 1974,
> on Tuesday waded into the 1998 Pokhran row when he slammed former President
> A P J Abdul Kalam, suggesting he was no qualified authority to rubbish
> former DRDO scientist K Santhanam's claim that the explosion was not a full
> success....
> Simultaneously, another former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission(AEC)
> P K Iyengar alleged that the 1998 tests were done in haste at the bidding of
> the government of the day. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance
> government headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee had just assumed office when India
> conducted the tests.
> The comments by Sethna, who was the AEC chairman in 1974 and now in his
> eighties, came notwithstanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] and
> missile man Kalam setting at rest the controversy over the 1998 nuclear
> tests.
> Kalam, who was Santhanam's boss as head of the Defence and Research
> Development Organisation in 1998, said only the thermonuclear device
> (hydrogen bomb) tested produced the 'desired yield'.
> 'What did he (Kalam) know about extracting, making explosive grade? He
> didn't know a thing. By being a President, he appeared to wear the stature.
> He relied on atomic energy to gain additional stature,' said Sethna about
> Kalam while talking to CNN-IBN.
> 'I don't like politicians -- especially lay politicians -- to interfere any
> more. I firmly believe that they should stay out. When we did the test, the
> first test there was no politician. It was a raw one. We were lucky that the
> whole thing collapsed,' said Sethna, who in his days in the atomic
> establishment had the reputation of being a blunt, plain speaking
> organisational leader.
> Kalam had on August 27 said Pokhran II was a success rubbishing Santhanam's
> claim that the tests were a 'fizzle'.
> Iyengar, who was among the three top atomic scientists who oversaw the 1974
> tests, has already shared Santhanam's assessment of Pokhran-II and
> questioned official claims of success.
> Iyengar suggested that in March 1998, two months before Pokhran-II , India
> 's intelligence must have found out that the Pakistanis were about to test
> and that they were serious.
> 'Therefore, they (the new government in India) asked these people
> (scientists) to hurry up, do as fast as possible in all this extra pressure
> to be one up politically because BJP had just come to power,' he said.
> 'If Pakistan fired an explosion before India what a common man in India
> would have thought,' Iyengar added........
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> Subject: [issuesonline_worldwide] India: Low-level nuclear deception
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> http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=76980&Cat=9
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> Low-level nuclear deception
>
> by Praful Bidwai
>
> (The News International, November 12, 2011)
>
> India's former President APJ Abdul Kalam brought himself no credit by
> visiting the Koodankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu, and
> declaring it "100 percent safe". The idea that any technology,
> especially a complex hazard-prone one like a nuclear power, is "100
> percent safe" is patently unscientific. All technologies carry finite
> risks. The more complicated, energy-dense, and dependent on
> high-pressure high-temperature systems they are, the higher the risk.
>
> Kalam, the father of India's missile programme, supports outlandish
> and destructive ideas, such as interlinking India's rivers (thus
> damaging their basins' integrity, besides pumping up water with
> electricity), making India "fully developed" by 2020, with per capita
> energy consumption rising 20 times to US levels (thus burning gigantic
> amounts of coal, displacing millions, and raising greenhouse gas
> emissions sky-high), and using genetic engineering to make Ayurvedic
> medicines.
>
> Kalam failed to convince the protesters who have been on a relay fast
> for over three weeks. Their earlier hunger-strike impelled the Tamil
> Nadu cabinet to demand suspension of the reactors' construction until
> people's apprehensions about nuclear hazards are allayed.
>
> Kalam didn't bother to meet the protesters and blatantly sided with
> Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) officials. His 10-point
> proposal for local development fails to address people's concerns. It
> evokes derision.
>
> Kalam's visit was part of a three-pronged attack by India's nuclear
> establishment against Koodankulam's protesters. The second prong is
> disinformation that they are imperilling the safety of the nuclear
> plant which recently had a "hot run". The third is a malicious
> campaign alleging that the protesters are misled by "foreign"
> elements, including environmentalists and nuclear manufacturers with
> rival designs to Koodankulam's Russian-origin reactors.
>
> Thus Department of Atomic Energy secretary Srikumar Banerjee claimed:
> "It is not a plant which can be just switched on and off...We have
> done the hot run. We can't go from hot run to a freeze condition. ....
> There is a serious concern about the damage to our programme..." NPCIL
> chairman SK Jain added: [a reactor] is "not a car factory where you
> can switch off the systems... You have simulators, ventilators,
> computer and electronic systems...."
>
> Such scare-mongering is deplorable. There is no nuclear danger at
> Koodankulam yet. Reactor 1, under advanced construction, hasn't gone
> critical, with a nuclear fission chain-reaction. For all intents and
> purposes, it's like a car factory, which too has simulators,
> ventilators and computers.
>
> A "hot run" involves loading dummy fuel (without uranium) into the
> reactor, and then heating the primary coolant water to "280 degrees
> Celsius ...", according to site director MK Balaji ("The Hindu", June
> 5). After the three-week-long hot run, "the reactor would be
> disassembled", not just shut, and the reactor vessel, pipelines,
> gauges and safety devices inspected. The hot run's purpose is to test
> the coolant circuit.
>
> Until nuclear fission occurs in Reactor 1, its safety won't be
> affected in the least if operations are suspended even for months.
> Shutting down reactors even after they have gone critical isn't rocket
> science. All reactors are periodically closed for maintenance. Many
> have been shut down safely for good – recently in Japan and Germany,
> and earlier in the US, France, Britain, Italy, etc.
>
> The DAE/NPCIL hasn't produced a shred of evidence for the charge that
> a "foreign hand" is behind the Koodankulam protests. I confirmed
> through telephone calls that there are no foreign protesters there.
> The only foreigners who have been around are the Russian engineers
> invited by NPCIL!
>
> The charge is a bit rich coming from a department, all of whose
> reactors are based on Canadian or US designs, and whose very survival
> depends on reactor imports.
>
> Former DAE secretary Anil Kakodkar told Marathi daily Sakaal (Jan 5)
> that India is handing out lucrative reactor deals to foreign suppliers
> for their governments' support to the US-India nuclear deal: "We also
> have to keep in mind the commercial interests of foreign countries and
> ... companies ...America, Russia and France were ... made mediators in
> these efforts to lift sanctions, and hence, for the nurturing of their
> business interests, we made deals with them ...." Such collaboration
> is so embarrassing that many former DAE officials oppose it.
>
> This gutter-level anti-protest campaign will only further discredit
> the DAE. The DAE has never completed a major project on time or
> without a 300 percent-plus cost overrun. Its safety performance is
> appalling, with numerous accidents and exposure of workers to
> radiation well in excess of the officially stipulated limits. Over 350
> of these were documented from the Tarapur power station alone.
>
> The accidents include a fire in the turbine room (Narora 1993),
> collapse during construction of a containment dome – a concrete-shell
> "safety" structure – (Kaiga 1994), pipeline leaks (BARC 1991), heavy
> water spills (Rajasthan 1999; Kalpakkam 1999), and massive leaks of
> radioactive substances exposing workers (Kalpakkam 2003), and
> contamination of drinking water with highly toxic tritium (Kaiga,
> 2009).
>
> According to former Atomic Energy Regulatory Board chairman A
> Gopalakrishnan, these accidents were never properly investigated, and
> nobody was punished for them.
>
> The DAE lacks a commitment to transparency, truthfulness,
> accountability and safety. Its knee-jerk response is to deny that
> nuclear reactors pose a safety problem. When the truth becomes starkly
> undeniable, it trivialises the problem.
>
> Thus, it was no aberration that Banerjee and Jain denied the gravity
> of the March 12-14 hydrogen explosions during the world's worst
> nuclear disaster, at Fukushima. Banerjee said the blasts – which
> indicated severe core damage and aggravated it, leading to three
> meltdowns – were "a purely chemical reaction, not a nuclear
> emergency"! Jain said it was a "planned emergency preparedness
> programme..."
>
> That such delusion-prone men should be entrusted with ultra-hazardous
> nuclear power in India is an abiding disgrace.
>
> Popular fears about Koodankulam's nuclear hazards are well-founded.
> Reactor designers and operators have concluded that all reactors types
> currently operating worldwide can undergo a loss-of-coolant or other
> accidents, leading to catastrophic releases of radioactivity.
>
> Radioactivity poisons air, water, and plant and animal life, damaging
> body-cell DNA, causing cell death, genetic damage and cancers.
>
> Nuclear power is bound up with radiation from cradle to grave – from
> uranium mining to fuel fabrication, and from reactor operation to
> spent-fuel reprocessing and storage. Contrary to Kalam's claim,
> reprocessing 99 percent of spent fuel at Koodankulam cannot eliminate
> radiation; reprocessing will produce yet more radioactivity and
> nuclear waste.
>
> Waste generated in nuclear reactors remains hazardous for thousands of
> years. Half the plutonium-239 will be present even after 24,000 years,
> and half the uranium-235 for 710 million years. Science knows no way
> of safely storing such substances, leave alone disposing them of.
> Besides, even routine emissions and effluents from nuclear plants are
> dangerous.
>
> Nuclear power is also far costlier than electricity from conventional
> fuels, and increasingly, from renewable sources such as wind, biomass
> and solar, whose costs are falling amazingly rapidly. Nuclear's
> greenhouse emissions are also higher per unit of power than those from
> most renewables. It cannot "decarbonise" the energy economy
> cost-effectively or rapidly enough.
>
> The nuclear industry was always promoted through deception and huge
> public subsidies. No bank would finance it. It has been called "the
> greatest failure of any enterprise in ... industrial history", which
> has lost more than $1 trillion in subsidies, cash losses, abandoned
> projects and damage to the public. It's high time we stopped the
> juggernaut of destruction.
>
> The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and
> human-rights activist based in Delhi.
>
> [The above article is available also at:
> http://www.sacw.net/article2389.html ]
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