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"India’s Nuclear Ambitions Rattle Tsunami-Hit Coast"

"IDINTHA KARAI, India—Here along India’s southern coast—ravaged by tsunami waves 10 years ago—the country’s newest nuclear plant towers over the shoreline.

It is one of India’s biggest nuclear plants, and in the coming weeks it is expected to officially start selling power into the Indian grid. The Russian-designed, 2,000-megawatt Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project is part of an aggressive nuclear expansion as India struggles to solve severe power shortages.

It comes a decade after the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami, in which 228,000 people were lost across countries on the Indian Ocean’s rim, and amid concern about nuclear plants on tsunami-prone shorelines since the 2011 meltdown in Fukushima, Japan."

Jesse Pesta and R. Jai Krishna report for the Wall Street Journal December 21, 2014.

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"‘Cyclone College’ Raises Hopes, Dreams of India’s Vulnerable Fisherfolk" (Inter Press Service)

Source: Wall St. Journal, 12/22/2014