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Dec 29 - by Ranjit Devraj

NEW DELHI (IPS) - Tsunamis and other natural disasters are posing a bigger challenge than pesky green activists to India’s secretive nuclear power and research facilities on the coast of southern Tamil Nadu state, which accounted for 5,000 of the more than 50,000 deaths from this week’s quakes and killer waves in Asia........Long before the tsunami struck, the secret workings of the Kalpakkam and Koodankulam facilities have been the subject of protests by local citizens and groups opposed to nuclear power—most notably the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy and South Asians Against Nukes (SAAN), an informal information platform for activists and scholars concerned about the nuclearisation of South Asia.

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