Warning Signals: Praful Bidwai
As the global nuclear industry’s fate hangs in the balance, India must rethink its nuclear power expansion plans and impose a moratorium on new reactors. “We cannot afford another accident.”...
View ArticleThe truth behind India’s nuclear renaissance
Jaitapur’s French-built nuclear plant is a disaster in waiting, jeopardising biodiversity and local livelihoods Praful Bidwai The global “nuclear renaissance” touted a decade ago has not...
View ArticleCan n-power be safe?
PRAFUL BIDWAI A resounding no is the answer on the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl and two months after Fukushima. The Maharashtra government has plumbed yet another low by...
View ArticleNukes and India: On the Wrong Side of History?
Have our rulers decided to place India on the wrong side of history and arrest her social progress? Going by their policy of forcibly promoting nuclear power regardless of its hazards, environmental...
View ArticleNuclear or Broke: India’s Dangerous Obsession with Nuclear Power
India’s obsession with nuclear power is proving extremely damaging. It is time to switch to and participate in the renewables revolution. PRAFUL BIDWAI Cartoon courtesy: ANUMUKTI...
View ArticleTowards a nuclear police state?
Is the Manmohan Singh government doing to the anti-Koodankulam nuclear plant protesters what the Bush administration did to Iraq under Saddam Hussein – to invent an excuse for using military force?...
View ArticleNuclear power & democracy
So cocksure is India’s super-arrogant nuclear establishment of its infallibility that it brands its critics insane and in need of psychiatric treatment.
View ArticleNuking peaceful protests: democracy is at stake in Koodankulam
Even zealous supporters of nuclear power should logically concede three things to their opponents. First, after Fukushima, it’s natural for people everywhere to be deeply sceptical of the claimed...
View ArticleNo clear reason in the Kudankulam judgment: Praful Bidwai
The judgment is a string of factual anomalies, logical contradictions and ethical misconceptions. It strenuously denies that nuclear power poses unique hazards, which in the extreme violate the right...
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Skies, receive an honoured guest. Praful Bidwai rises to rest.
He wasn't a poet, nor am I, but yesterday I remembered Auden's eulogy of Yeats: "The day of his death was a dark cold day." Yes, it was a dark but not-so-cold day in Ahmedabad when Praful's picture...
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[VIDEO] Koodankulam SC judgement is a travesty of justice – Praful Bidwai
Here is a video of veteran journalist and anti-nuclear activist Praful Bidwai responding to the Supreme Court judgement on Koodankulam, when justice was subverted by the nuclear establishment to push...
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Praful Bidwai on the lessons of Fukushima for India
Here is an article that Praful Bidwai wrote soon after the Fukushima accident started in March 2011. He warned us - as Japan's earthquake and tsunami triggers the global nuclear industry's worst...
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Praful Bidwai and the nuclear discourse in India
Praful Bidwai's departure has created a huge void. He took on the mighty and well-heeled nuclear establishment of India through his exemplary rigour and finesse. He democratised the Indian discourse on...
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[Video] Praful Bidwai speaking against India-Japan nuclear agreement
Here is a video of Praful Bidwai speaking at the protest in Jantar Mantar on january 25th 2014 - declared the National Day of protest against the India-Japan nuclear agreement by the protest groups...
View ArticleReprocessing Spent N-Fuel: Neither Safe nor Economical
Reprocessing Spent N-Fuel: Neither Safe nor Economical Praful Bidwai The Times of India, November 7, 1983 2017/09/29: This is the first digitized version of an article written by Praful Bidwai in 1983...
View ArticleThe Kaiga Story
by Praful Bidwai Economic and Political Weekly January 3, 1987 This article from 1987 describes the planning stages of, and opposition to, the Kaiga Nuclear Atomic Power Station in Karnataka, India....
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