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IDINTHAKARAI, India—For some villagers on India’s most southern tip, a major earthquake that shook the Indian Ocean last month was a good thing. Despite tsunami alarms going off—bringing back frightening memories of the devastating tsunami in 2004—it proved a point they have long been making: The construction of India’s largest nuclear power plant on the coastline is a hazard.
Despite the scorching heat, thousands of villagers in Idinthakarai and surrounding area have been protesting over the past months against the construction of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant.
The protesters have been witnesses to the twin domes of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant rising slowly from the scrubland close to their village. The plant is a sign of the expanding hunger for energy in a nation propelled by a fast growing economy and rapidly increasing population.
