People protesting the proposed nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, Maharashtra, close to their villages, on Monday made public a letter written to French and European bankers. The letter was released two days before negotiations at Paris between Indian nuclear bureaucrats, the French nuclear company Areva, international financiers and bankers to facilitate a soft loan for the project planned as the largest nuclear power project in the world. The 9,900 mega watt (MW) plant, is to be set up at Madban village in Ratnagiri. Residents are opposing it, saying it will destroy 938 hectare (ha) of eco-sensitive land with creeks and mangrove.
According to reports, senior officers of the Department of Atomic Energy and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) will attend a meeting on June 5 and 6.
