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The government is planning to build the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Jaitapur, on the west coast of India, in Maharashtra. The site is an ecological and biodiversity ‘hotspot’ that's also known to have Get involved high seismic activity. The plan is an untested, expensive and dangerous gamble with health and land, which is being vehemently opposed. Your full name *

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Six 1650 MW nuclear reactors, provided by French company AREVA NP. The reactors will be operated by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), a company owned by the Government of India. With the backing of the government, NPCIL is pushing ahead with its plans despite ﬁerce local resistance to the project. Sign up

If built, the total capacity of 9900 MW will make the Jaitapur nuclear reactor ‘park’ the largest in the world.

The technology

The reactors are European Pressurised Reactors, or EPRs, a design developed by AREVA NP. There are no EPRs operational yet anywhere in the world, and the safety and reliability of the technology is highly questionable. The EPR is based on the same principle as older reactors and, being more powerful, presents even more potential for catastrophe.

Three EPR construction sites currently exist in the world, in France, Finland and China. The plants in both France and Finland have repeatedly run over budget, and are running years behind schedule while there is little information on the status of the projects in China.

On rocky ground

The land for which the Jaitapur nuclear power plant is intended is classified as a seismic zone four, out of a possible five. This has been confirmed by documents obtained under the Right to Information Act of 2005. The website of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) also places Ratnagiri, the district where Jaitapur is located, as a zone four region.

Seismic zone four is known as the ‘High Damage Risk Zone’, under the national system for assessing the likelihood of earthquakes. Further, documents reveal that ninety-two earthquakes have occurred there in just the twenty years between 1985 and 2005. The most severe one Save Mahan, Junglistan, Act Now measured 6.3 on the Richter scale.

However, in the Jaitapur Evironmental Impact Assessment of 2010, the NPCIL stated that the site was classiﬁed as zone three, which corresponds to a lower risk. The organisation has also recently begun to respond to public pressure on the plant by stating that the Jaitapur site is a mere zone three.

Biodiversity

Jaitapur is in the Konkan region in the Western Ghats. It is considered to be one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and is home to thousands of species of plants and animals, many of which are threatened. This project will put this entire ecosystem at considerable risk. Obama and Modi want to sell nuclear Protests power to India that is too... There has been ﬁerce opposition to the project from the people of Jaitapur and the surrounding Blog entry areas. Land has been forcibly acquired in most cases. While there have been attempts to paint the Only two new nuclear plants are being agitations against the plant as being primarily driven by a demand for higher compensation, this is built in the US and even they... Read more far from the truth and objections to the reactor are manifold. The issues at stake for the local > people include concerns about loss of livelihood, serious damage to the environment, issue of safety given the seismic activity of the site, track record of disaster preparedness in India, and ﬁnally but importantly, the complete lack of transparency about the project. The government has AERB clueless about industry blacklist made no genuine attempt to address the issues raised and has essentially been trying to gloss Press release over them while stubbornly pressing ahead with the plan. New Delhi/Chennai/Mumbai | December 10, 2014 | Despite evidence of... Read Banks’ pullout more >

Early this year, NPCIL expanded the consortium of banks which will invest in Jaitapur from five to fifteen. While the initial list of banks included HSBC, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, Sociate Genrale With a decline in global markets, Abbott and Nataxis, later other banks such as Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and Santander were also invited looks to India for uranium sale to invest. Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank - the top two German banks - were also invited to be Press release part of the consortium. While Commerzbank decided not to invest in the project early on, Deutsche New Delhi/Canberra, September 4, 2014: Bank expressed interest in participating in the project. Now it is confirmed that Deutsche Bank has Greenpeace today criticized the... Read decided to cancel its participation. The fact that Jaitapur is located on a seismic zone is of grave more > concern to banks. The events of Fukushima will certainly further intensify those concerns.

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