Green tribunal asks environment ministry to make info on projects public

PTI | May 27, 2012, 11.23AM IST

NEW DELHI: Stressing on greater transparency, the National Green Tribunal has asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to bring in public domain the relevant information regarding ventures in eco- fragile zones.”We also feel there is need to have more transparency in the EIA process and as such, whatever relevant information regarding the projects are used during the time of appraisal of the project from environmental angle by the Environment Appraisal Committee (EAC) and MoEF should also be made available in public domain including the executive summary of specific studies.

“Therefore, we direct the MoEF to make available relevant information other than EIA reportand report of the public hearing considered during the appraisal of the project through its website,” a bench headed by Tribunal’s Acting Chairperson A S Naidu said.

The bench, also comprising G K Pandey as an expert member, passed the directions while suspending the environmental clearance (EC) granted to the proposed 3,600 MW coal-based thermal power plant developed by IL&FS Tamil Nadu Power Company Ltd, at Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu.

The tribunal also directed MoEF to upload “from time to time the compliance status of various stipulated conditions during the grant of EC to projects so as to bring compliance status in public domain in case of all the projects granted EC under EIA Notification, 2006”.

It said the concerned project proponent must also upload the compliance status of EC conditions, including the executive summary of the specific studies done in respect of the project and update the same periodically.

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Germany sets new solar power record, institute says

Solar Powered Street Light (Photo credit: joostboers)

 

Sat, May 26 2012

By Erik Kirschbaum

BERLIN (Reuters) – German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.

The German government decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022.

They will be replaced by renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and bio-mass.

Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry (IWR) in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power per hour fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 percent of the nation’s midday electricity needs.

“Never before anywhere has a country produced as much photovoltaic electricity,” Allnoch told Reuters. “Germany came close to the 20 gigawatt (GW) mark a few times in recent weeks. But this was the first time we made it over.”

The record-breaking amount of solar power shows one of the world’s leading industrial nations was able to meet a third of its electricity needs on a work day, Friday, and nearly half on Saturday when factories and offices were closed.

Government-mandated support for renewables has helped Germany became a world leader in renewable energy and the country gets about 20 percent of its overall annual electricity from those sources.

Germany has nearly as much installed solar power generation capacity as the rest of the world combined and gets about four percent of its overall annual electricity needs from the sun alone. It aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020.

SUNSHINE

Some critics say renewable energy is not reliable enough nor is there enough capacity to power major industrial nations. But Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany is eager to demonstrate that is indeed possible.

The jump above the 20 GW level was due to increased capacity this year and bright sunshine nationwide.

The 22 GW per hour figure is up from about 14 GW per hour a year ago.Germany added 7.5 GW of installed power generation capacity in 2012 and 1.8 GW more in the first quarter for a total of 26 GW capacity.

“This shows Germany is capable of meeting a large share of its electricity needs with solar power,” Allnoch said. “It also shows Germany can do with fewer coal-burning power plants, gas-burning plants and nuclear plants.”

Allnoch said the data is based on information from the European Energy Exchange (EEX), a bourse based in Leipzig.

The incentives through the state-mandated “feed-in-tariff” (FIT) are not without controversy, however. The FIT is the lifeblood for the industry until photovoltaic prices fall further to levels similar for conventional power production.

Utilities and consumer groups have complained the FIT for solar power adds about 2 cents per kilowatt/hour on top of electricity prices in Germany that are already among the highest in the world with consumers paying about 23 cents per kw/h.

German consumers pay about 4 billion euros ($5 billion) per year on top of their electricity bills for solar power, according to a 2012 report by the Environment Ministry.

Critics also complain growing levels of solar power make the national grid more less stable due to fluctuations in output.

Merkel’s centre-right government has tried to accelerate cuts in the FIT,which has fallen by between 15 and 30 percent per year, to nearly 40percent this year to levels below 20 cents per kw/h. But the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, has blocked it.

($1 = 0.7992 euros)

The Girl without a FACE- Paromita Vohra

May 27, Mumbai Mirror

Filmmaker and writer Paromita Vohra shines a light on what we’re failing to see about Mumbai’s changing relationship with its women

What has become the most common image of Bombay women? It’s not the doughty Koli lady; nor that cynical but poetic whore recast as the elusively childlike bar dancer, nor that famed service-woman in starched sari and gajra, chopping dinner vegetables on the local train.

The image we see most often is that of The Girl Without A Face.

We’ve been seeing her for a while. First it was images of bar dancers after a raid, a row of bodies in diaphanous, sparkly lehengas with covered faces. Lately it’s been girls at parties or ‘raves’ which the police raid. The only image we see of these raids, their symbol almost is the row of half-clad female bodies with two hands over their faces. An image of shame; maybe of penitence.

Of course these images make us angry – at this curtailment of people’s freedom on the basis of the most prejudiced, patriarchal, moral policing. So what happened to The Most Friendly City forWomen we ask indignantly?

Time was, when only impoverished working-class women who were compelled to squat by the train tracks to defecate did that. The only way to cover this humiliation brought upon them by poverty was to cover their faces as the trains went by, packed with people, many of whom might have the good fortune of at least a shared toilet, looking down at them.

But these aren’t poor women, the women from the parties.

Never before have we seen so many girls dressed for freedom, in their confidently sexy dresses and f***-me shoes.

But the purdah of their covered faces makes me wonder about the freedom. And the uniform.

Once upon a time the now de rigeur strappy mini dresses and high-heels meant you belonged to one of the permissive upper-classes – or maybe you were a hippie type. Either way, it meant you either didn’t or could afford not to, care about rules and propriety. It meant that you lived, as one girl from a slum once told me, in a ‘posh neighbourhood’, where people were not narrowminded and did not judge a girl by her un-cover.

Today it’s a uniform thousands of Bombay girls emulate to signal their urbanity and modernity, in fact their professionalism. You can see them swarming in spaghetti straps around Andheri–Goregaon belt hoping to make it as actresses, models, singers. Just trying to look the part, doing what the role demands.

They scrabble hard at the margins of what seems to be a possibly democratic, positively decadent media world. From small towns or precarious suburbs, they think they can navigate this shifty world with a felicity that comes from understanding what men expect women to be.

Despite the difference of their worlds, they don’t look so different from some young women I meet at a bachelorette party in Andheri West. The same nearperfect bodies, the same fluid munni badnam hui moves. Only the fashionably sexy clothes here are more subtle, more expensive. I laughingly ask one how come there’s no male stripper in this very Sex and the City type of party. “We thought of it” says one, “but they’re too LMC mostly.” LMC stands for lower middle class, I learn. It’s not the kind of body you want to see apparently. Or want seeing you maybe.

I ask a young colleague who works in television, do young people really have as much sex as the media leads us to believe? Yes, she says. They do. Well that’s good, right? She says, well, you have to, or people will think there’s something wrong with you. And you have to learn to move on really quick, or you’re not cool. But not being married is not an option.
So I do wonder about this freedom that doesn’t colour outside the lines. That has squeezed itself into a little back dress over the last few years, but mostly for the consumption of specific others.

It certainly makes me wonder what happened to that constantly celebrated Bombay of Manto, where liberation and libertines were easier bedfellows and conformity seemed irrelevant; in which itinerant folks, ravaged by the city, yet liberated by it from their old identities, made unpredictable, unprecedented relationships and found strange, un-definable loves.

Perhaps it’s just moved to a further suburb, where women can be barefaced after all. Maybe it just belongs to a messier era of everyone taking the local train instead of buying the bubble of a car on EMI and everyone going to a single-screen cinema instead of segregation by multiplexes for the UMCs and pirated DVDs for the LMCs.
In the new city where that potent untidiness becomes slowly more elusive, that now sections itself in a class war, we have become used to seeing the usual spoils of war – the faceless bodies of female slaves captured from the other side in a public parade.

Koondakulam Officia lsite evaluation is faulty- Report #antinuke

English: Construction site of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant Deutsch: Baustelle des Kernkraftwerks Kudankulam (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

REPORT ON EVALUATION OF KUDANKUALM SITE FOR LCOATION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PRESENTS IT AS A KILLER PROJECT
 http://tshivajirao.blogspot.in/2012/05/why-kudankulam-reactors-are-killers-of.html

Note:This report obtained by Kudankulam anti- nuclear  activists from NPCIL under pressure of the RTI Act is presented as rough draft as certain pages were omitted during supply of the copy.

Based on Dianuke website report under the following website.

http://www.dianuke.org/koodankulam-site-evaluation-report-an-analysis-by-pmane/ 

1.Introduction:  The acceptability of a site for locating a nuclear power plant is dependent not only on site characteristics, related primarily and directly to safety, but also on a large number of other aspects  which are only indirectly related to safety.  These include the reliability and stability of the electrical grid, the adequacy of communications etc.

The siting of nuclear power plant (NPP) generally involves studies in three stages, namely:

1)Site survey stage: The purpose of a site survey is to identify lone or more preferred candidate sites after both safety and non-safety considerations have been taken into account.  This involves the study and investigation of a large region.  It results in the rejection of unacceptable sites, and is followed by systematic screening, and comparison of remaining sites.

2) Site evaluation stage:  This stage involves the study and investigation of one or more of the preferred candidate sites to evaluate their acceptability from various consideration, and in particular from the safety considerations.  The site-related design bases are established at this stage.  Subsequent to this a preliminary safety analysis report is submitted for clearance before site construction is started.

3) Pre-operational stage: This stage includes studies and investigations of the selected site after the start of construction and before the start of operation in order to complete and refine the assessment of site characteristics and to confirm assumptions made in the safety analysis of the reactor as a part of the final safety analysis report.  The base line data on environment are also established at this stage.

The stage one is within the scope of the work of the site selection committee.  The present committee aims to have a preliminary evaluation of the feasibility of a site mainly from safety considerations and ensure that the plant site combination does not constitute an unacceptable risk.  However, in ivew of the fact that some non-safety considerations may affect safety related aspects, such items also have to be studied.  It is to be understood that the present committee has evaluated the site from screening considerations.  The site related design parameters/bases are to be established at appropriate stages.  The review is based on the available information on population and industrial growth and other proposed facilities at and around the site in addition to safety related aspects like seismo-tectonic environment, geology, hydrology, extreme meteorological Phenomenon etc.  The site is evaluated from the following considerations.

1.       Effect of the region of the site on the plant   2. Effect of the plant on the region

3.       Population considerations.

While the first of the above factors decide the safety of the plant due to site related natural and man-induced events, the second factor influences the potential radiological impact from the plant on the environment.  Population consideration is important for emergency planning.

The acceptability of a site for a particular NPP depends on the existence of engineering solution to site related problems which gives assurance that the proposed plant can be built and operated within acceptably low risk to the population of the region.

IAEA guidelines (1,2) have been kept in mind for the site evaluation.

2. REVIEW FOR THE SUITABILITY OF THE SITE AT KUDANKULAM

2.1   GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS       2.1.1  SAFETY-RELATED ASPECTS

Potential site-specific natural hazards and man-induced events have been evaluated for initial appraisal of their impact on the plant design and the enigneerability under the given circumstances.  Subsequently, these studies form the design bases.

Among the natural hazards, the following aspects as relevant to site have been studied.

i)                    Surface faulting     ii)Seismicity     iii)Suitability of subsurface material

iv)                 Flood and     v)Extreme meteorological phenomena (e.g cyclone)

Because of rocky substrata slope instability, soil liquefaction, surface collapse, subsidence or uplift are not applicable for the present site.

Man-induced events include accidents due to

i)                    Air traffic        ii)Vehicular road traffic

ii)                   Industrial and Military activities in the immediate vicinity of the site.

Capability of dispersion in air and water are studied for possible radiological impact on environment. The availability of adequate cooling water supply for the ultimate Heat Sink is the central safety issue.  Feasibility of implementing effective emergency actions has also been considered.

2.1.2 NON-SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS

        (Economic, Technical, Environmental and Social Aspects)

These are primarily related to engineering feasibility.  However, some of the factors may indirectly be related to the safety of the NPP.

The factors considered are:   i)Electricity network  ii)Availability of cooling water iii) Transport routes

iv) Topography   v)Industrial support at site  vi) Non-radiological impact on the environment (e.g.. chemical and thermal pollution, industrial growth and its impact etc.)

2.1.3  OBSERVATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE

The committee has studied all site related data submitted by NPC (3,4,5) and has, in accordance with the criteria mentioned above, made a review of the suitability of the Kudankulam site for locating nuclear power station having two units of 1000 MWe VVER reactor.

The review findings are presented in Tables I and II

3.0  ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN:

 The committee recommends that the following actions should be taken at appropriate stages.

3.1.  ASPECTS RELATED TO SITE

1)      ODC committee of NPC to evaluate suitability of transportation of ODC at design stage

2)      Maximum Flood Level should be estimated accurately considering IAEA safety Guide 50-SG-S10B.  Revised report of CWPRS should be submitted to Design Safety Committee.

3)      Analysis for the quality of construction water is to be carried out.

4)      In order to enhance additional reliability for water Supply, which is essential for functioning of various safety systems of the reactor, intake well at Pechiparai Dam should be provided at lower elevation than the minimum draw-down level of the reservoir.  However, it should be ensured by proper management of water distribution that the water level is maintained above this minimum level.

5)      Adequate storage of fresh water for prolonged safe shutdown of the reactors is to be provided within plant boundary for safety related systems.  Ground water source should be explored.

6)      Environmental Survey laboratory should be set up at site and instruments are to be installed at site to collect meteorological data and background radiation.

7)      Site related design considerations such as seismic aspects, etc are to be established before submission of PSAR.

8)      The committee has been informed that detail subsoil investigations have been carried out (12).  Bore-hole investigations are to be carried out at the proposed location of various buildings and structures.  The report should be forwarded to design group for taking into account at the time of actual design.

9)      Power evacuation studies particularly that influence the plant grid interaction should be persued.  Feasibility of operation on islanding mode may be studied in collaboration with CEA.  In addition availability of a reliable (dedicated) startup power source of adequate capacity should be examined.

10)   Stipulations made by various state and central authorities in giving clearance, should be met.  In addition, plantation in the area under control of the project should be taken up along with site development.

11)    Tamilnadu legislation to control population growth beyond natural growth within the sterilized zone is to be implemented.

12)   Termination of the lease in 1994 for lime stone quarry.

3.2 ASPECTS RELATED TO DESIGN:

1.       Radiological impact should be assessed with proper source terms and relevant dispersion characteristics of the site.  Dose limits prescribed should be met at a distance of 1.6km in event of greater exclusion radius adopted by NPC.

2.       Stack height to be checked by Health Physics Division,BARC, considering topography and dispersion characteristics.

3.        Model studies should be taken up for intake and outfall structure for thermal pollution and recirculation.

4.       Studies on Biofouling and jelly-fish etc. that may affect the water supply should be taken up.

5.       Studies on accretion/erosion rate around the plant site should be carried out.  If required, proper protection should be provided.

6.       Design should be engineered to meet site related design basis events.

7.        Atleast two evacuation routes from plant site during an emergency should be provided.

 4.0 RECOMMENDATIONS:

The committee is of the opinion that Kudankulam site meets the major criteria for siting 2 x 1000 MWe VVER units.  The Committee at the same time recommends that the observations made in the preface and the actions recommended in Section 3 above need to be implemented at appropriate stages.

REFERENCES

1.       IAEA – Code of Practice on Safety in Nuclear Power Plant Siting.  IAEA Safety Series No.50-C-S International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1979

2.       Site Survey for Nuclear Power Plants.  IAEA Safety series No. 50-SG-S9.  IAEA(1984)

3.       Environmental data on proposed Kudankulam site for submission to Tamilnadu Pollution Control Board for 2 x 1000 MWe VVER nuclear power station.

4.       Write up on Kudankulam site – DAE

5.       Siting data in AERB standard format.  (Received from NPC vide letter NPC/KK/24/1032, dt.7-3-89

6.       Layout of main plant building for 2 x 1000 MWe VVER project at Kudankulam

7.       CWPRS Pune Report: “Safe Grade Elevation for the proposed nuclear power station at Kudankulam,  Tamilnadu

8.       Draft report on Earthquake design basis for Kudankulam site, DAE, 1988 – A.K Ghosh and DC Banerjee.

9.       Appendix to Part-I of Site Selection Committee report

10.   Power Transmission system for Kudankulam Atomic Power Project -CEA report

11.   Letter NPC/KK/24 dated 16-3-89 received from NPC

12.   Brief note from NPC on “Geological setup of Kudankulam site”.

T A B L E -1

SALIENT FEATURES OF KUDANKULAM SITE CONSIDERED DURING SITE EVALUATION

S.No.	Site characteristics Influencing the NPP	Specification/Desirable Characteristics	Observations for Kudankulam site	Remarks
1	Topography	Plain topography	Plain topography-elevation+3m to 45m above MSL.  Area measuring 1Km to 2Km available (3), (6)	Terrain suitable sufficient land available for future expansion
2	Accessibility i) Nearest Broadgauge rail head		Kanyakumari(27Km), Valliyur (27Km)	Recommendation for ODC transport 1)All consignments/equipments with weight (30Ton: USSR-tutitorin by ship Tuticorin-site: by road or on barges by sea route 2) All consignments (30 ton USSR-site: by ship and barges. To be unloaded at jetty within the plant
	ii)Nearest National Highway		NH7 at Kanyakumari 27Km, Valliyur 27Km,
	iii) Nearest Seaport		Tuticorin (100Km)
	iv) Nearest district road		Coastal road 4Km
3	Construction Facilities i)Construction materials		Coarse aggregates available at Anjugrarer (4km).  Sand available at Ratucenathjewari   road (7km) Bricks available at Panagudi (27km)	More sources will be established at construction stage.
	ii)Construction power	26KVA +2 KVA for township	Panagudi sub-station (27Km)  – 110KV line exists. 110KV line from Kodyar power station is also being considered.
	iii)Construction water	3.5 cu.sec (350 cu.m per hour	Initially limited supply to be tapped from ground water sources.  Subsequently the demand will be met from Pechiparai dam	Quality of construction water is likely to be acceptable.  Analysis of water will be carried out.
	iv)Infrastructure facilities (e.g minor workshop etc)		Nagercoil (30km) and Tuticorin (100km)
4	Availability of Power Supply and Transmission Lines i)Start-up Power	50KVA per unit	Available from main state grid and Tuticorin Thermal Power Station Plant (630MW) 220KV line to be drawn from Tuticorin.
	ii)Power evacuation scheme		Feasible as per preliminary study conducted by CEA.  Detail study is in progress	Present grid capacity 12832 MWe.  Nuclear 470MWe. Projected capacity in 1995 will be 27541MWe.  Nuclear  1910 MWe
5	Availability of Water i)Condenser cooling	6000 Cu sec (on once-through basis)	Sea water cooling on once-through basis silt content:60-100 ppm Particle size75 microns.Temperature:26-29 oC	No constraint. Titanium tubes will be used.  Study on biofouling and jelly fish that may affect the water supply will be taken at design stage.  Model study will be taken up for intake and outfall structure(5)
	ii)Fresh water for make-up and domestic use	10 cu sec	Assured by State Government.  One pipeline from Pechiparai dam (at 65km) to be laid. pH:7.  Dissolved solids:25mg/litre,  Suspended solids:negligible, Turbidity:5mg/l (5)	Dam storage 4.45 TMC ft. Dead storage can account for 3 years drought (5)
6	Township	400 acres	400 acres of land identified near Chettikulam village about 7km from the site (3)

TABLE-2    SITE CHARACTERISTICS AFFECTING SAFETY OF PLANT

S.No.	Site Characteristics Influencing the NPP	Specification/Desirable Characteristics	Observations for Kudankulam site	Remarks
1	Geology i)Foundation conditions depths of bed rock and type		Bed rock at 5-16m below ground. Biotite granite genesis with lenticular bodies of charnockites or quartzites
	ii) Strength	Maximum intensity of loading 6kg/sq.cm at RB	Dry strength : 650kg/sq.cm Wet strength: 450 kg/sq.cm(5)
	iii)Ground water	Below 1m	5-8 m below ground – gradient towards sea (5)
2.	Natural events: i)Coastal erosion		Erosion insignificant with respect to life of station. Nearest main plant structure from shore about 120m away from the sea base line	Layout for the main plant still under consideration figure of 120 tons estimate on the basis on 7 ton as the ground elevation at main plant building.
	ii)Flood		Maximum flood level considering tidal range wave run-up and maximum stage surge 5.9m above chart datam of 0.0 Exposed structures placed well above this level. (7)	Grade level around Reactor Building will be above 7m from MSL. Revised report on MFL from CWPRS awaited.  Grade elevation will be changed if necessary.
	iii)Tsunami		Not significant as per preliminary report of CWPRS	1m height of wave considered due to tsunami effect.
	iv)Wind, storm, Cyclone		Maximum speed of storm:112km/hr. Storm surge accounted for in flooding. Exceedance probability 5% as per preliminary repsort from CWPRS.	Engineering capability to design for wind load exists.
	v)Slope instability		Not applicable for rocky substrata
	Vi)Soil liquefaction		Not applicable for rocky substrata
	vii)Seismotectonic environment	No active fault within 5km of NPP. Engineering capability for stipulated earthquake acceleration should be possible	No active fault within 5km. Site is in seismic zoneII as per IS 1893; 1984. Nearest epicenter at Trivandrum (90km) earthquake in the region. Magnitude 6 at Coimbatore (8 Feb, 1900) (300 km) Estimated peak horizontal acceleration for SSE is 0.15g and for OBE is 0.06g.	Engineering capability to design for such earthquake loads exists. Seismic evaluation report finalized after discussion with GSI and Soviet Specialists.  Further ground checks have confirmed the assumptions regarding the nearest
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5.	Use of Land		Within in the exclusion zone: 34% of area lies in sea.  Remaining 650-750 ha of land (no forest), mostly private owned, is barren and unirrigated/poorly cultivable.  Extremely limited agriculture.  Annual yield: 20 tons of  millet and 2 tons of cotton Within 10km radius area: 60% of area lies in Sea. Remaining land is barren or used for agriculture.  Annual yield:Paddy 14400 tons, millet 4300 tons, chillir 3000 tonnes, tobacco 380 tons, pulses 830 tons, cotton 250 tons, oil seeds 70 tons (4)	A lime stone quarry of about 70 acres falls within the sterilized zone.  The lease for this area expires in 1994.  Termination of the lease beyond the period has been requested.
6.	Use of Water		Ground water, limited in supply is used for drinking andhas a gradient towards the sea.  No salt pans within 5km. The degree of development of fisheries is as common as in a coastal belt.   In the near by area, indinthakarai, Koothapuzh, Koothankuzhi and Perurranal are the fishing villages within 20km and annual fish produce of about 4000 tons in the area is reported.  About 3900 fisherman in these villages are engaged infishing as per information furnished in 1982.  At Chinneruttar near Kanyakumari, a fishing harbor is being developed. (4)
7.	Disposal of Radioactive waste from the NPP i)Solid waste		Low level solid waste to be buried within exclusion zone in leak-proof RCC vaults/trenches/tile holes.  160-180 m cu per year of  cemented waste including spent absorption materials, 40m cu/yr of compacted waste and 5 m cu/yr of cemented ash will be generated from one reactor (5)	Borewells surrounding the solid waste burial area will be provided for monitoring migration of activities.
	ii)Liquid waste	To be diluted to 2 x 10E-7 micro Ci/ml when discharged into the sea.	Most of the radioactivity in the liquid is removed in the Ion exchange resin and as evaporator concentrate.  After above processing the liquid effluent from two units is estimated as 6000 m Cu/year with activity levels lesser or equal to 10E-9 Ci/l.  This will be further diluted by condenser cooling water to meet the limits allowed by AERB	6000 cusecs of sea water available for dilution while sea water less than 1 cusec required to achieve the specified limits.
	iii)Gas release		Stack height is 100m. Use of high efficiency (0.3 micron) particulate absolute filter will help to comply with authorized limits for particulate activity. The estimated gaseous discharges from two units as following. Nuclides          Avg daily                        Releases                        Ci/day Noble gases–       2220 I-131             30 x 10E-4 Long life             0.012 Nuclides Short life            0.26 nuclides	It is understood that specific detailed information regarding waste and radioactive releases will be available along with PSAR for review
8	Radiological Impact i)during normal operation	AERB prescribed limits	Based on releases vide para7, preliminary estimates indicate very low dose rates 11.24 mrem/yr to the individual at 1.6km exclusion radius.  Both the water and air routes have been considered in the above estimates.
	ii)During design basis accident conditions	10 rem for whole body, 50 rem for child thyroid at exclusion radius	For all design basis accidents adequate engineering safety features shall be  provided to meet the specified requirements.	DBA calculations will be carried out at the design stage
9	Thermal Pollution		Not significant.  Intake and outfall will be well separated.  Depth of sea water and large dilution due to sea will avoid thermal pollution	Model studies will be carried out at CWPRS Pune.  The requirements of Tamilnadu pollution Control Board should be met
10	Storage and Transportation of Fresh and spent fuel		Space for storage of fresh fuel for 5 years plus one core charge will be provided.  Each unit layout can store spent fuel of 5 reactor years in the spent fuel pool located inside the containment.  Besides this space will be available to unload one core inventory.	50 ton of spent fuel will be discharged annually from the 2 reactors.  After adequate cooling inside the pool, it will be shipped to Soviet Union by sea route in hermatically sealed casks.  Special jetty provided within the plant area will be used for transfer of cask to the Soviet ships so that spent fuel remains within plant boundary at all stages during the process of shipment of irradiated.
11	Fuel Reprocessing facility		Reprocessing not planned at this site
12.	Population considerations i) Population within 2km radius exclusion zone	No habitation	No resident population
	ii)Population within 5km radius sterilized zone	Less than 26,000 population density (2/3  state average.	Total population:15,000, 3 villages in this area Kudankulam, Idinthakarai and Erukkanatharam	Tamilnadu legislation to control population growth beyond natural growth within the sterilized zone to be implemented.
	iii)Population within 10km radius zone	No center >10,000	No population centre with more than 10,000 people.  total population 40,842 (1961 census). Population density:130 persons/sq.km
	iv)Population within 30km radius zone	No center >1,00,000	No population center with more than 1 lakh people.  11 centers have population more than 10,000  Nagercoil (at 30 km has a population of 1,71,641.
	v) Population within 50km radius zone		33 population centers with population more than 10,000 (4)
13	Emergency Preparedness Considerations		3 routes exist for possible evacuation.  Schools and other public buildings exist for adequate temporary shelter, nagercoil (30km), Tirunelveli (100km) and Tuticorin (100km) can providerehabilitation medical facilities and administrative support	Draft proposal on off-site emergency preparedness plans already submitted to AERB.
14.	Additional Statutory requirements of the Central and State Government		Clearance for the following has been obtained: Tamilnadu pollution control Board, Shore protection committee of Tamilnadu Government, State Committee on Environment, Minister of Environment and Forests (Government of India)	Stipulations made in the clearance documents should be adhered to.

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The Facts – Crash course genocidal Israel

1. There is a 130 year long record of religious Jewish opposition against the zionist scheme | Source Neturei Karta
2. The sole one starting terrorism in the middle east is Israel, King David Bombing  July 1946, before any state of “Israel” was founded at all. | Source
3. During the King David bombing, zionist terrorist organisations killed 91 people with a single bomb attack. So far the myths who started bombings | Source
4. Israel committed over 77 massacres during the Nakba | Overview of all massacres
5. The first massacre of the Nakba in Deir Yassin where zionist terror organisations behaved like nazi’s in WWII | Source | Video
6. Deir Yassin is just one of the examples how Israel wipes of complete villages off the map of this very earth.  Every red dot on this map represents a vanished Palestinian town |Map
7. Skipping some massacres, but this footage of Sabra & Shatilla could easily be mixed up for Holocaust footage | Photos | Documentary
8. Holocaust comparisions do not make me happy, but this footage must be seen and please make up your own mind | Photos Hashoah vs Al-Nakba
9. And before you jump into conclusions, this footage of Abu Ghraib style “trophy pictures” of Israel’s own soldiers says it all | Photos
10. The Nakba, intended to ethnic cleanse Palestine for the sake of the greater Israel never ended. | Article by Alan Hart
11. It goes on even today. In a continuous process of ethnic cleansing | Overview & resources
12. Most people do not even have the slightest idea of the magnitude of the genocide on Palestine which killed est. 5.1 Million Palestinians since 1948 | Research
13. Genocide is committed in 2 ways: By direct violence or passively: by deprivation |Research by Dr. Gideon Polya
14. The policies of Israel to deprive people are similar to those which cause the death of 1 in6 million, so 1 million Jewish people who died due to deliberate deprivation by the Nazi’s during world war 2. Yet, Israel is doing the same on Palestine. | More
15. These deprivation policies are even proven for Israel went to Supreme Court to prevent documents about near starvation from leaking | Source
16. Every mean possible is deployed by Israel to deprive cause illness and death while it keeps displaying a bodycount cause by direct aims and confirmed hits only. To be very clear: The alleged rockets from gaza have killed 21 Israeli in 11 years | SourceIsraelproject
17. Israel inciting alleged threats of Gaza is hiding the facts about the myths about the home made flares | The Facts | The Footage
18. Israel accusing Iran of being a so called nuclear threat was revuked before by the IAEA |Source Febr 2012
19. Israel itself, is denying any investigation into it’s own nuclear arsenal which it’s possession it has been denying as in forever. While in Vanunu already exposed pictures of the Dimona nuclear weapon plant from 1985 | Footage
20. Aside from this, US gave Israel, short before the Cast Lead Massacre 1000 GBU-39 bunker busters which it pounded indiscriminately on high dense urban areas of Gaza |Source
21. In the soil of Gaza, 75 Tons of depleted uranium were found after the assault on Gaza |Report 1 | Report 2 | Report 3
22. These weapons not only kill on impact, but while Israel folds it hands, kills on passively by causing cancer, increasingly as well | Report
23. Which fits the zionist plan: “Shoot them, kill them, otherwise give them cancer” | Report
24. If one gets inflicted by diseases like cancer: Deprive them of medical aid | Overview of facts of death due to deprivation of medical aid
25. Or Israel kills by denying access to medical aid,  173 children died this way | Report
26. 35 babies died (still births) before they could be born, because their mother was denied access to medical care, as well as 18.000 women a year develop complications during pregnancy due to restrictions of movement to medical aid facilities | Report, Facts, Resources and Video footage
27. In a shocking  report of Israeli Physicians for Human Right it shows, that even inside 1948 (which is called Israel nowadays) people of Palestinian origin are severely infringed on their rights to medical assistance, treatments and even denied access. Causing high deathrates, less survival chances if inflicted by a terminal disease and even factor 4 to 5 reducing birthrate caused by racist policies | Report by PHR Israel
28. Dialysis supplies, which cost about 29 dollar per treatment are prohibited from entering or delayed, causing continuously over 400 lives to be in danger, making the ill hostage of deliberate politics | Facts, Resources, Footage
29. Cancer and Thallasamia patients neither have medications | Facts & Footage
30. May 19, 2012:  204 types of medication and 218 types of medical consumables are depleted. 200 others are on their way to depletion. Because the siege on Gaza | Source
31. While UN is celebrating “Long and healthy Lives” achievements, Israel prevents entry of vaccines, which is an obligation of UNRWA in Gaza for the refugees who also lack action or use of their mandate, putting Gaza’s children at vunerable ages at risks aside those they already are exposed to by all other factors | Facts
32. Like water pollution: Only 5% of Gaza’s water is fit for human consumption. Supplies for aquifiers are prohibited from entering, causing water born diseases, blue baby syndrome, pollution and environmental damage. | Facts, footage, resources
33. March 5, 2012 Again dams are flooded deliberately | Report
34. “Access to safe water is a  fundamental human need and therefore a basic  human right.” ~ Kofi Annan | Website RighttoWater, legal resources, reports, research
35. Israel steals 85% of Palestine’s water | Facts
36. Israel if not stealing or destroying poisons water wells, flooding sewage or even directly poisoning orchards deliberately | Report
37. Israel cuts electricity supplies, fuel, causing a severe crisis and blackouts sometimes over 18 hours a day. Directly targeting all which is functioning on electricity as well like dialysis machines, Intensive care and heart units, nurseries,  and at the moment even endangering the ability to do surgeries | Report by UN
38. Electricity cuts also prevent aquifiers to work, sewerage and waterpumps, violating human rights but also endangering health | Report by Muftah
39. May 24, 2012: Even emergency rooms in Gaza now face dangerous situations and shut down | Report
40. While it slained 1500 people, of which 352 children only during 1 of the many massacre Operation Cast Lead on Gaza in 2008-2009, during 22 days | Photos | Videos | More
41. With not only “traditional” ammunition launched by tanks, naval vessels, drones, F16′s but also previously mentioned Nuclear as well as chemical weaponry like white phosphorus which is forbidden by law | Report
42. Israel deploys 24 hours a day drones and has an enhanced remote killing technology  called ” Spot and Shoot ” | Report
43. With which it commits extra judicial killings in Gaza, turning the open air prison not only into a concentration camp but effectively into an extermination camp as well | Report 1 |Report 2 | Report 3
    
44. Over 825 people have been killed this way by drones only,  in the last 5 years in Gaza |Report
45. Snipers at the Gaza border shoot at over 1 mile range people working on their lands to death. Seems to be more for fun than danger | Report
46. An example: This is 17yr old mentally disabled Khames, he was shot by snipers 10 times in head and upperbody | Case study
    
47. Already in 2004 doctors in Gaza cried out to this world about the shocking rise of deaths by snipers who are merely hunting kids | Report 2004
48. Not only in Gaza, in the west bank as well: A sniper shoots a 4 year old girl and paralyses her, she died earlier this year of wounds and complications | Report
49. Or are hunted to death in a chase: An example: A healthy 30 year old worker chased to death | Report
50. Or wounded, are refused treatment, and dumped by the army aside of a road, where one man died  this way | Report
51. People are abducted and vanishing for Israel’s organ trade, sometimes corpses returned with missing bodyparts | Report
52. Hit and Run Attacks. Cars used to kill. Or to disable. Hence even people in wheelchairs are ran over. None of the attackers has been punished for murder . Yet one of the attacks received an award | Overview 
53. Prisoners are deliberately neglected and refused medical aid. As extermination tool |Report
54. Israel uses over 105 torture techniques since 1967 resulting in at least 66 documented cases of torture deaths | Report
55. Israel deliberately wounds and kills unarmed civilians with riot dispersal gear (tear gas, rubber bullets etc) in illegal ways causing death like Mustafa Tamimi | Overview, facts
56. Israel arms settlers which caused an increase of racist induced settler violence wounded and deaths | Report
57. Israel inciting so called dangers from Palestinians, it violent every day In the first 3 months of 2012, over 1000 attacks on Palestinians | Overview Jan – Mar 2012
58. Not only killing inside Palestine, also those who want to visit it. Like the Mavi Marmara Massacre: 9 deaths | Overview, Footage, Facts

This list can go on for ever for in over 60 years, there still has not come an end to this genocide.

Original Article here

Anti- State- Poem #sedition #censorship

 William Nicholas Gomes; a promising name, a poet, journalist and human rights activist. He is well known for his outspoken, impartial, uncompromising position on the issues of human rights violations. He is an ambassador of peace, who advocates democracy and rule of law, on issues worldwide.

Recently his web site www.williamgomes.org has been blocked in Bangladesh by the fascist government. It is believed that the root cause is very recent poem “Anti State” and “Pen” which were written and published on the website by the revolutionary poet William Gomes.

William’s only weapon is his pen and he penned two poems and that have shocked and challenged the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and her fascist government.

The ruling government is well known for the corruption, extrajudicial killings, torture and growing number of disappearances country wide.

ANTI STATE – A POEM– by william gomes

I am ANTI STATE!

Yes, I am!

I am against the state, which runs on the bases of injustices

I am against the state which comes out of killings

I am against its every system

I am against its governments

I am against its Presidents, Prime Ministers

I am against its criminal hierarchy

I am against all those leaders of criminals in the parliament

Yes, they are criminals!

They are the traders of injustice,

They are the killers of justice

They are root and reasons of injustices

They are the creator of poverty

They crates poverty

They are traders of poverty

Yes! When people are poor, they are powerful

Yes, they are powerful and I am poor!

Yes, I am people!

They are running the corporate state of injustice

They are traders of hatred,

They sell hatred

They sell riots!

They do everything for power!

They are traders of religions

They sells the ALLAH, RAM , BUDDHA , JESUS !

They have declared war on people

They have declared war on peace

I declared war on these criminals,

I declared war on their System

I declare that I am anti state

For sure, I am for the people!

I am people!

I will burn their RED and GREEN flag,

I will burn the constitution of injustice

I will burn down the parliament

I will burn down all into ashes

I dream no red and green flag

No traders of injustice

But a place full of peaceful of people!

No mater, if need to change the name of Bangladesh

I declare, I will change it!

I will change for peace, for people

I declare, I am anti state!

— 

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