In the vicinity of the Kundankulum reactor, the wives of some fishermen, political novices all, on October 18, 2011, started a rolling hunger strike that has continued for more than four years. Farmers, herders and shipwrights have several times laid siege to the 2,500-acre park since the reactor plans were announced in 1987. By 2012, the protests had grown so large and spawned so many others in nearby villages that police lines were reinforced with men bused in from all over India. Some of the police fired into crowds with live rounds on Sept. 9 of that year, killing one, while a second victim, 6 years old, died in the stampede that followed.
The central and state governments have responded brutally. They cut electricity to the most restless districts around the plant in 2011 and 2012, and police officers smashed up homes in the village of Idinthakarai while residents were out at sea.
The police also engaged in a campaign of mass arrests, having issued 227,000 charges against protestors, including those of sedition and assault.
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More, much more, long long long article:
http://news.yahoo.com/indias-nuclear-solution-global-warming-100000370.html
Source: The Center for Public Integrity
A lot of the above was caused by reports of corruption and shoddy workmanship on this Russian built reactor, and concerns about a tsunami doing a disastrous Fukushima-style flooding to this coastal plant, according to the article.
I didn't read the rest of the long long article to find out if this is typical of attitudes to nuclear power in the rest of India.
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