This article explains the problem in simple language which can be easily understood even by a simple person like me.
I am sure India will take care to ensure that we will have the rights to re-process the Uranium and therby run our thorium based reactors for our energy needs.
should give up all american invented capitilistic stuff such as computers, automobiles, internet, satellites, machinery, pharamaceuticals, aeroplanes etc......and go and sit in their mud-huts in calcutta.
It is good to see that India is holding negotiation and not taking pressure of the US in the neuclear deal. It is beyond understanding why we are so much worried about US for our neuclear programme and its further development and new establishment. All the allis of the US has already broken the NPT and nobody has really obeyed that. MTCR was also not followed by their allies and the most vulnarable state in all these is PAKISTAN.
If you have a better neuclear technology, share it with freindly nations, and further develop the same. Why always U.S.? We have pool of best young scientist and old experience scientist why not to invest in them for the technology rather than to go behind U.S. The history shows that U.S. has always played according to their own interest rather than for their allies.
They are still supporting the dictatorship ruled pakistan who is supporting terrorism and also accepted that they have smuggled the nuclear tech to some of the nation and in these circumstances we should not promise some thing very sound and that could effect our future releationship with the U.S.
We should go for mutual understanding rather than signing any big deal.
We ahve nations like France, Japan and Russia who can develop and provide any kind of technology in Nuclear field to India.
RE:Why to go behind U.S.?
by manoj on May 31, 2007 09:48 PM Permalink
"It is good to see that India is holding negotiation"
USA has mastered the art of turing around the public opinion in it's favour
They will tell that great progress is made, Then we are going to scrap it/ Then the deal is done/ The deal will not benefit USA/ The deal is called off/ The deal is signed.
They have mastered the chaos theory and we indians are it's victims and testing zone on how to steer the public opinion.
RE:Why to go behind U.S.?
by Mystic on May 31, 2007 11:42 PM Permalink
Fact of the matter is unless this agreement goes through NSG will not let us get technology or fuel easily.. none of the above mentioned countries will be help...
The government should be firm in its decision about reprocessing rights and if the americans don't agree ,we do have our own nuclear research based on fast breeder reactors which are more advanced than the uranium ones.
If USA can believe on rouge state of Pakistan for nuclear bomb and energy then it has to believe by 1000% more on honest intentions of India. It seems that India is being panelised for being honest. We should not buckel under USA or its chamchas pressure.
Hey Can the defence sector use Thoruim instead of Uranium for weapon purpose? AND IF India goes for Thorium nuke explosion, I hope the HYDE ACT would not be a show stopper as its applicable to uranium processed ang given by them?
Any clarification on this by the any knowledgeable person!
RE:Nuclear economics
by RAJAT GUPTA on May 31, 2007 01:15 PM Permalink
Hi, As described in article thorium can also produce energy so it can also be use for making nukes but the catch is that it requires Uranium byproduct to start the fission reaction. so again the problem is same we need to reprocess the imported uranium. And if thorium is used in making nukes INDIA will require to import huge quantities of Uranium for energy sector which will increase the import bills and hence the basic point of exploiting thorium reserves for cheap electricity gets negated. considering only all these aspects INDIA wants to import small amounts of uranium to use it feeding the thorium breeder reactors and produce clean electricity at very low cost. while at the same time using its limited uranium reserves to produce sufficient number of nukes to maintain the minimum deterrent for its hostile neighborhood. While the concern of USA is that why should we give our uranium to INDIA for making electricity while INDIA will use its own Uranium to make nukes. Hope this answers ur question. :)
RE:Nuclear economics
by top Prakash on May 31, 2007 12:29 PM Permalink
No. Thorium can't be used for explosion. Its byproduct of Uranium may be used. Energy processing through Thorium needs a fission material (U238) to create energy and the same U238 is core for explosion. That's why US don't want us to use processed by-product of Uranium.
This is a good article that has made more clear to the readers thereal bottleneck ...i think india has every right to re process uranium once we paid for it ..otherwise no use of the deal
RE:Good Article
by pratap bhanu on May 31, 2007 01:04 PM Permalink
who is watching whether we r reprocessing it otr not. In deal just accept that we will not reprocess ur uranium.But in backdoor we can still reprocess it like general musarraf does. No US army jawan would be watching us from so close distance.
RE:Good Article
by vasu_erfolg on May 31, 2007 02:16 PM Permalink
Sorry, it does not work that way. Once you sign a deal, there will be close monitoring and checking by independent or semi-independent agencies. You will have to physically account for every gram of the material that you produced / consumed.
RE:Good Article
by manoj joshi on May 31, 2007 06:19 PM Permalink
Yes it's very true. The deal should be Our terms and conditions b cause , We are All this doing In indian territory, Deal should talk about give And take policy, No clause Should be added oyther than that
RE:Good Article
by secular on Jun 01, 2007 10:45 PM Permalink
I think it is very important for India to come out with its Nuclear weapons capability and counter attack capability in open and then go ahead and sign deals which talks about use/generation of Nuclear based energy for self use and also for sharing the technology with friendly nations. I seriously feel that if we have the capability of first or second strike if required in a destructive manner then lets just go ahead and have this deal with USA. India is as imp for USA as USA is for India. With Russia back in power game and China an every growing threat for India as well as USA this relationship has to be based on the need to scratch each others back as and when required.
