Around 100 villagers in Thailand protested on August 27 against a decision of the House budget scrutiny panel to approve funds for a nuclear research project at Ongkharak district in Nakhon Nayok. The villagers also demanded that the government must revoke the contract which was signed between Atomic Energy for Peace and General Atomics of the us.
Ida Aroonwongse of the Campaign for Alternative Energy for Sustainable Development, said the idea was to remind the government that, earlier, the deputy science minister had promised to abandon the project if there was local opposition. The villagers have opposed the 10-megawatt research reactor on the environmental and safety grounds. The reactor will replace the two-megawatt facility at the agency's Vibhavadi-Rangsit Centre, where the villagers also plan to hold protest rally.
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