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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Leaders urge Manmohan Singh to scrap Areva’s contract for Jaitapur project

Leaders urge Manmohan Singh to scrap Areva’s contract for Jaitapur project

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published Published on Aug 27, 2012   modified Modified on Aug 27, 2012
-The Times of India

Politicians involved with the National Committee in Solidarity with Jaitapur Struggle have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking cancellation of the contract with French company Areva for supplying nuclear reactors to the project.

The letter, written by CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, senior leader Sitaram Yechury, CPI leaders AB Bardhan and D Raja, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan, JD (S) leader Danish Ali and Telugu Desam Party's Nama Nageshwara Rao, also expressed concern over the safety of Jaitapur nuclear plant.

They pointed out that both the central government as well as Maharashtra had not paid attention to "serious objections regarding the safety of the proposed Areva reactors and its costs raised by experts, parliamentarians, public figures and the local people". It was unlikely that the Areva reactors would pass even an elementary test of techno-economic due diligence, they said.

The committee said Jaitapur project was not subjected to an independent rigorous scientific techno-economic scrutiny and safety audit in the public domain and was being pushed against the will of the local people.

"The 'conditional' environmental clearance granted by the ministry of environment and forests in November 2010 is also based on an unscientific and deeply flawed Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report," the letter said, adding that the agency hired to prepare the EIA was not competent to look into matters of nuclear hazards.

Moreover, cost and tariff for the civilian nuclear power project in Jaitapur was not being revealed by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, the letter said.

As for Areva's reactors, the leaders said the 1,650 MWe European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) was an untested design and had caused serious concerns among nuclear safety agencies of different countries. "There are reliable reports that an internal audit of the French nuclear industry has criticized Areva and Electricity de France (EDF) for the undue complexity of EPR and that EDF itself may be planning to discontinue the EPR design," it said.

The leaders also said there was significant cost and time over-runs for the Areva EPR reactors. The first two EPRs under construction in Finland and France were yet to be commissioned and had already been delayed by more than four years due to technical and safety issues. The EPR project at Penly in France has been put on hold. The letter also said Areva was in financial trouble with debt of $3.75 billion in June 2011.


The Times of India, 27 August, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Leaders-urge-Manmohan-Singh-to-scrap-Arevas-contract-for-Jaitapur-project/articleshow/15787645.cms


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