National
Geographic: India's plan to build the world's largest
nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, a port city 250 miles south of
Mumbai, faces vigorous, sometimes violent opposition from the
city's inhabitants. And as
National Geographic's Rebecca Byerly, the power plant
serves as a focus for a wider debate within India about nuclear
power. Most of India's households lack direct access to
electricity. Meeting that need through nuclear power is,
according to the Indian government, the cleanest, cheapest
option. Whether nuclear power is also the safest option is the
principal point of contention, especially in the wake of the
meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi power plant in
March.
