December 2012

The petition submitted by G Sundarrajan declares that the environment clearances made during the 1989 Environment Impact Assessment was not done because the site for installation was not decided by then.

Government even failed to conduct the public hearing, which is a mandatory thing to be done under law. The critical changes done in the plant are as follows:

1. The previous plan was to store the spent fuel in Russia, but now it will be stored within the plant

2. The water for being used in the nuclear plant was to be taken from the local dam, but now the decisions have been made to take the fuel from the sea

3. Then the Ministry of Environment and Forests stated that the sea temperature will suffer a change of 5 degrees but now it has been raised to 7 degrees

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