Mainstream Weekly

Reject French Reactors for Jaitapur

A Gopalkrishnan — 2011-03-19T18:46:00Z

The Jaitapur nuclear power project has become a matter of intense discussion all over the country because of the displacement of a large number of the people in the Konkan area; there are also several questions challenging the different nuclear projects of the government. This discussion now involves the nuclear agreements signed by the UPA Government with the US as well as with the French Government for installation of nuclear plants at Jaitapur and other locations. We are reproducing the (…)

- 2011

Don't Go Ahead with the N-Deal : Top Scientists

A Gopalkrishnan, A N Prasad, P K Iyengar — 2008-07-11T05:06:31Z

We were part of a group of senior nuclear scientists who had in the past expressed our grave concerns and objections to India entering into a nuclear cooperation agreement with the US under the aegis of the Hyde Act 2006. We had written to the parliamentarians on this matter, and the Prime Minister had given us an opportunity to meet with him and discuss our views.
At this critical juncture, when the Government is about to rush the safeguards agreements to the IAEA without giving its (…)

- July 5, 2008

Reality behind the Bush Smokescreen

A Gopalkrishnan — 2007-09-26T14:13:15Z

When a US President signs a bill into an Act, he may issue a written statement implying that he differs with certain provisions of law in that Act, due to reasons he indicates in the statement. Such documents, called “Presidential Signing Statements”, were used by several past Presidents mainly to clarify constitutional positions, but the more recent ones have increasingly contained one or more challenges or objections to the laws being signed. The objections are usually on the grounds that (…)

- September 22, 2007