Please see the new NIRS Briefing Paper, dated Jan 25, 2011Nuclear Energy is Dirty Energy
If the radiation released routinely from nuclear reactors were the color and texture of oil, no one would ever again confuse nuclear power with “clean.”
Source: http://www.nirs.org/nukerelapse/obama/nuclearenergyisdirtyenergy.pdf
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Unfortunately Mr Jairam Ramesh has the superstitious belief that nuclear energy is clean. Or he pretends so for strategic reasons. Otherwise it is hard to justify all the compromises being made in order to clear the decks for the Jaitapur project.