Koodankulam another Bhopal disaster in waiting: US academician

November 03, 2012: An internationally acclaimed academician from the United States has warned that Koodankulam nuclear plant could be another Bhopal disaster in waiting.
"Nuclear energy is a very dangerous initiative, particularly in countries like India, which has had more than its share of industrial disasters, Bhopal being the most famous," said Avram Noam Chomsky in a solidarity letter to the struggling people.
"I would like to express my support for the courageous people's movement protesting the opening of the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant," added Chomsky, who is an academician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Chomsky is a noted linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic and activist. He has worked as a professor in the department of linguistics and philosophy at MIT.
In addition to his work in linguistics, he has written on war, politics, mass media and a many other areas. Chomsky was cited more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992 and he was voted the 'world's top public intellectual' in a 2005 poll.