After Fukushima, it’s natural and pertinent to ask if nuclear power has a future anywhere, including India. But whatever the future or present, Srikumar Banerjee [a top official of India’s atomic energy establishment] will surely find a place in the past for declaring on April 14 [2011] that the unfolding multi-reactor FukÂushima meÂltdown was “purely a chemical reaction†, not a nuclear emergency.