2011年4月19日星期二

Clash in India nuclear power plant site

18 April 2011 last updated at 23: 39 GMT A policeman stands at a kiosk at the proposed site of the Jaitapur nuclear plant in Ratnagiri district, about 360 km (224 miles) south of Mumbai, April 13, 2011. plans for the six reactor, nuclear facilities have met with fierce opposition from a person died after police in the Western India with local protest against the planned construction of a nuclear power plant clashed.

The police said, they were forced, open fire after a police station near the proposed site in Jaitapur demonstrators, attacked in the State of Maharashtra.

Construction of the $10 billion (€6) plant - expected to be the largest in the world - is this year begin.

The proposal has triggered massive protests in the country.

Residents in the area gathered close to the proposed site, which they fear threatens to express bring rage on the plan, their traditional fishing grounds.

'Devastated'

Madhukar Gaikwad, official of the Ratnagiri district, said about 700 to 800 fishermen and villagers surrounded a local police station in the village of Nate and spraypaint began it.

"The mob burned records room, destroyed computer and TV set and set a police car on fire."

"We have tried, they disperse with tear gas and sugar cane charge." Also, we used plastic balls, but nothing worked. Finally used we was seriously wounded in what a person live ammunition, died on his way to the hospital, "said he."

More than 50 people were injured, including police officers.

Protests have the proposed 9,900 megawatts, six reactor were plant, which creates Assembly with technical assistance from the French energy giant AREVA.

Environmentalists say that Konkan, the region in the Jaitapur is located, is one of the most richest regions of the Earth and claim that it be destroyed by the system.

In December last year, a title that one Indian magazine Outlook article on the Jaitapur work "The Rape of Eden".

Others have raised concerns, seismically active, the plant is built in an area.


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