‘…the possibility, however remote it may be, of human error,
systems failure, sabotage, earthquake and terrorist attacks
leading to the release of radioactive matter in the public
domain, cannot be entirely ruled out.’ Guidelines on Management
of Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies National Disaster
Management Authority Govt of India All nuclear power plants are
inherently dangerous. They are vulnerable to any combination of
natural disaster, human error or design failure. In India,
institutional faults make that risk a little bit greater. Yet
these dangers are routinely and emphatically downplayed by the
nuclear establishment. There’s a myth propagated that nuclear
power has become safer in recent years. It’s now toted as the
answer to climate change – an “environmentally-friendly” option
that guides us away from the looming crisis of peak oil. The
truth is that even a significant increase in nuclear power would
only lead to a negligible CO2 reduction 1, and that nuclear
reactors are no safer than they were