The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will be visiting Tokyo next month. One of the key agenda during the visit would be to finalise the agreement for supply of nuclear technology from Japan to India, which will help set up nuclear power plants in Jaitapur and Kovvada, being imported from France and the US.
Tag: Nuclear Energy
Beyond Japan in the Post-Fukushima World Order: Japan’s Gamble on the Asian Nuclear Renaissance
Despite and perhaps directly resulting from the unending crisis in Fukushima, Japan is now aggressively pursuing nuclear supply agreements with emergent nuclear nations across Asia and the Middle East.
Solidarity from Australia: Mullumbimby says NO to India-Japan nuke deal
Japan, one of the world’s most technologically advanced countries, could not prevent Fukushima. And India, a country where millions still live below the poverty line, a country with a poor record of safety and corporate responsibility – witness the Bhopal tragedy of 1984, with people still waiting for any compensation, still waiting for decontamination of the site – is happy to accept this failed technology.
Istanbul, London and Tokyo: international solidarity protests against India-Japan nuke deal
Protests were organised today in Turkey, UK and Japan in solidarity with the country-wide protest of farmers and fisherfolk during the Japanese PM’s visit, against the India-Japan nuclear agreement.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Mayors oppose the India-Japan Nuclear Agreement
The Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have spoken out strongly against the proposed agreement which the Japanese PM might sign during his visit to India this weekend. In an extraordinary move, the two mayors – Kazumi Matsui and Tomihisa Taue – held a press conference issuing a joint statement and urged PM Shinzo Abe to abandon the nuclear supply agreement with India.