It seems India is among the pioneers in Breeder reactor technology to utilize Thorium. Hope this deal doesnt harm our oun R&D in anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
RE:Hope
by hiral joshi on Aug 24, 2007 04:08 PM Permalink
One more link to prove India's presence on international Nuclear power generation technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Heavy_Water_Reactor
RE:Hope
by ASHOK on Aug 24, 2007 07:07 PM Permalink
George >> Please understand, Thorium by itself is not Fissile. It needs to be irradiated first, than it becomes useful. First step is to have Uranium and India is hopelessly short on that.
Bottom line >> We do not have all the links to make complete Chain
RE:Hope
by Lalatendu Deo on Aug 24, 2007 08:45 PM Permalink
The Three Stage Reactor Technology is not yet a proved one so as to enable us to fully depend on to produce commercial energy. We only have a small Fast Breeder Reactor that was perhaps inaugurated by Rajeev Gandhi. Had we been having a commercial Reactor based on the Technology, we could have thought of not going for any outside help.
Not much of hope from Thermal and hydel energy to fuel the requirement of energy in the next decade and beyond.
RE:Read the nuclear deal and the hyde act
by Mikkey Moouse on Aug 24, 2007 03:33 PM Permalink
so sign another 12345 point Agreement with the P.R. of China ! ha ha ha ha.......
the Chinaman is great for signing Agreements with....123, 1234, 12345, 54321 point Agreement, but watch out for the knife sticking out of your back shortly after ! ho ho ho ho.......
RE:Read the nuclear deal and the hyde act
by Vipin Gupta on Aug 24, 2007 04:44 PM Permalink
Btw are you a permanent CIA operative on rediff? I am from RAW. Wanna be a mole(moles are better species than mice)??
RE:Read the nuclear deal and the hyde act
by rightontop on Aug 24, 2007 04:03 PM Permalink
"How to create trouble and confusion in another nation without having to wage a war" -seems like american has mastered as well as chinese. check these.
RE:Irony?
by hrishikesh bose on Aug 24, 2007 03:24 PM Permalink
Think from both the sides...if good it will good for both US and India...esle will be bad for both the sides....do read the agreements and think what each sections can be used by both the partes for there good and others bad
RE:RE:Irony?
by atindra dinesh shukla on Aug 24, 2007 03:47 PM Permalink
I read it a long ago. Keeping bad track record of our rulers to protect our national interest in mind, I feel USA will have more benefits from this deal. Concerns about our indegenious Nuclear R&D, Nuclear deterranc are also not misplaced.
RE:Irony?
by hrishikesh bose on Aug 24, 2007 04:04 PM Permalink
if thats donated we respect the help...but that does not mean we are obliged and we will do what they as they helped us sometime back...and we deny that help
let not wranglings and tussles between the National Congress Party, the BJJP Party and the Calcutta Communist Party be responsible for sending the entire economy into the dumps.
Good relations with America and its Allies the European Union, Japan, South Korea & Taiwan means access to the largest trading bloc in the world - 35 trillion dollars economy/year, technology transfer, jobs & oustourcing, liberal travel regulations etc.
Bad realtionship with Anerica means no more foreign investemnt, no more outsourcing, no jobs, no technology transfer, no American/European/Japenese/Korean products, nothing. Only Chinese Pong-Wong cars & plastic toys & Russian Lada cars & Chernobyl reactors that blow up every week will be available.
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by hrishikesh bose on Aug 24, 2007 03:00 PM Permalink
Well....we had handled a bad relation when they imposed sanctions on us...so thats not a buig deal...dey should also understand the bad relationship with India
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by LaX Ray on Aug 24, 2007 03:49 PM Permalink
u think only india gains for the trade.. no one will go for sanction with a country which has the largest market..
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by Mikkey Moouse on Aug 24, 2007 03:56 PM Permalink
just hype that the Republic of India is such a large market ? its just 1 trillion dollars, compared to 11 trillion for USA, 4 trillion for Japan & Germany each.
the Republic of India gains much more than the USA from this deal.....technolgy transfer, outsourcing, exports market, uranium supply, h1-b visas etc
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by Vipin Gupta on Aug 24, 2007 04:42 PM Permalink
We know that but also that India will be bigger than US in 30 years time.Than dont come back with your mouse brain asking for favour.
RE:RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by LaX Ray on Aug 24, 2007 04:03 PM Permalink
u seem to be linking this to everything you know.. take a break.
RE:RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by hrishikesh bose on Aug 24, 2007 04:07 PM Permalink
There are many phases and faces of sanctions my dear...I agree India has a huge market...but there are many others....
RE:RE:RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by LaX Ray on Aug 24, 2007 04:08 PM Permalink
yes.. and business will never want to loose any
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by Mikkey Moouse on Aug 24, 2007 03:13 PM Permalink
thanks to america/european free market capitalism (unlike nehruvian/soviet socialsim), but the rug can be pulled from uder the feet at any time as foreign investment & technolgy transfer can be cut off at any time.
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by hrishikesh bose on Aug 24, 2007 03:30 PM Permalink
Most Important thing you should remember....
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by hrishikesh bose on Aug 24, 2007 04:06 PM Permalink
does not matter what Mickey is thinking...and nobody care about what we thinking as long as they are in India's interest...which I think is not exactly if mickey advocates....
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by Mikkey Moouse on Aug 24, 2007 03:42 PM Permalink
no need to sign with USA, just sign another 12345 point Agreement with the P.R. of China ! ha ha ha ha.......
the Chinaman is great for signing Agreements with....123, 1234, 12345, 54321 point Agreement, but watch out for the knife sticking out of your back shortly after ! ho ho ho ho.......
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by Lalatendu Deo on Aug 24, 2007 07:22 PM Permalink
How much your father's generation was earning at their retirement age? Must be about 100th of what our young guys are earning at the entry level. Does this mean that they were less capable? Those statistics are drawing very eronious conclusions. You know the disary the country was in in 50s and 60s, the Planners then had given the much needed stability. The economic prosperity of today, about which you have mentioned, is on the strong foundation they had laid down then. If the foundation is weak, we can not build a multi-storied construnction over it. Let us remember this always.The selective statistics, most of the times give opposit conclusions.
Another thing, our economical miracle is not an imported one. It is fully indegenious and is due to our economy's inner strength.
By the way, do you know as to what the economic growth is? It is only 2%.
RE:This is International Politics, not Domestic politics.
by Lalatendu Deo on Aug 24, 2007 07:44 PM Permalink
That is the growth rate os US economy. It is only 2%. And that of Sri Lanka is 12%. Does this mean any thing?
Karat and Bardhan are GREAT DICTATORS. They dont suit in democratic system. They overload their Chinese opinion on Indian citizens and take the country to ransom.
RE:Karat and Bardhan are GREAT DICTATORS
by george on Aug 24, 2007 02:51 PM Permalink
Read the nuclear deal and the hyde act and see why left is not happy. The complete text of both the agreements are available here.
In a broadcast from Delhi on 1 January 1965, the union home minister Gulzarilal Nanda said "There is a reason to believe that the new party CPI (M) was formed under Peking%u2019s inspiration. It was to serve as Peking%u2019s instrument in creating conditions of instability in the country and to facilitate the promotion of Chinese designs against India in furtherance of her grand strategy of establishing hegemony over Asia and her declared aim of world revolution. There is reason to believe that the Left Communist Party has close links with the Chinese from whom it draws ideological inspiration and receives support in other forms." Sinha, The Red Rebel in India, pp 186-9.
