India Maps Out a Nuclear Power Future, Amid Opposition
India’s government sees nuclear power as essential for meeting its growing energy needs, but public mistrust runs deep.
Fishermen pull mackerel, prawn, and pomfret from their nets near the port of Jaitapur on India's west coast, as field workers pick the region's famed Alphonso mangoes.
Even though many homes lack electricity, exports of fish and fruit provide a good living here. So villagers, determined to maintain their way of life, have made clear in protests that escalated after Japan's Fukushima Daiichi disaster that they do not welcome the new neighbor the Indian government plans to install: The world's largest nuclear power plant.
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Jaitapur is meant to be the flagship location for the Indian nuclear energy renaissance that was mapped years ago by negotiators of a treaty to end the power-hungry nation's technology
