FILM: "High Power"
Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom and the Cambridge Peace
Commission
has invited nuclear
engineer-turned-environmentalist
Pradeep
Indulkar to show his film High
Power
When: Thursday February
6 at 6:45PM
At: Cambridge Main Library , Community Room, 449
Broadway, Cambridge, MA.
The film is free.
The film is open to the public. Please circulate widely to
interested people.
High Power, a 27-minute documentary about the health
issues faced by residents of Tarapur, a town in Maharashtra, and home to the 50-
year-old Tarapur nuclear power plant, recently won the Yellow Oscar in the short
film category in the Rio de Janeiro leg of the Uranium Film Festival.
“The government was showing a very rosy picture of Tarapur on
TV, so a few of us thought of going there and interviewing the people...That
material was very strong, people were talking from their heart, and instead of
showing it on a news channel, I thought it could be made into a documentary,”
says Indulkar.
After the film, Indulkar will describe the passionate
anti-nuclear movement in India and their request for support from the global
anti-nuclear movement, particularly from those countries whose nuclear
industries are building plants in India.
Indulkar’s film tour in the western MA occurs at a time that
the US has agreed to a deal in which India buys 6 nuclear power plants from
Westinghouse – a boon for the industry that is going bust in the United States.
India reprocesses nuclear power waste into nuclear weapons and, thus, more
nuclear power translates into greater weapons capability. The US-India
agreement will require that India accept liability in case of a nuclear
accident, a tragic undermining of the post-Bhopal Indian law that placed
liability on the shoulders of the industry selling the equipment.
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