INDIA’S NUCLEAR SECTOR WILL KEEP LOOKING FOR LONG TERM WASTE SITES, DESPITE POLITICAL OPPOSITION
March 1st, 2013
INDIA’S nuclear industry says it will continue to look for long term nuclear waste depositories, despite hostile public opinion hindering its attempts to identify sites. “Nobody wants it in their backyard,” said KS Parthasarathy, former secretary of India’s Atomic Energy Regulatory Board told World Nuclear News, “Nuclear waste disposal is not just a technical issue but a sociological and political one as well.” He was talking after the industry’s latest waste disposal set back, where sustained street protests last November in Kolar, Karnataka, over ...
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