Solar and Wind energy, if promoted by the GOVERNMENT properly can fulfil every requirement. The money which we are investing in Nuclear reactors and Hydroelectricity etc. should be diverted to the LARGE SCALE promotion of renewable sources of energy. Otherwise all our slogans on environmenmtal conservation will be slogans only. And I request readers to do some more research before writing anything against any idea. Why do we see everything so negatively? What is the point in labelling some organization with Publicity-starved even without knowing it? To quote a report by Rob Edwards published in "The New Scientist" , 10th June 2006 (Magazine issue 2555),"In the mountain village of Kara Agach in Kyrgyzstan, people are unwittingly eating radioactive waste. Radium left behind by more than two decades of uranium mining during the Soviet era has contaminated their chickens,milk, potatoes and pears." THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE.... Till what time will we live in stone age? Everything must be decided on the merits and demerits & on purely scientific grounds. What is the point in ignoring the freely available energy and kissing the death? If we could start to see the things in more correct light, we can save our nature from more extinction. With warm regards, Chetan Upadhyaya, Satya Foundation
Why do we forget that there is no need of the Nuclear deal in the first place because we can develop enough Solar and Wind energy resources for all our energy needs. The people sitting in the power must open eyes to the fact that we have already devastated the nature due to our myopic vision. First coal, earthquake-inviting dams, petrol, diesel and NOW killing nuclear power (yes, it brings with it many environmental hazards) !!! What a rubbish? India's euphoria over our nuclear deal with the US is puzzling. If nuclear generated electricity is good for India, so should it be for the US. But the US hasn't built a single nuclear plant in the last so many decades. In Western Europe, most of the nations are phasing out nuclear power. India should question its over night enthusiasm for a source of energy that is being rejected in many of the world's most advanced countries.
The world tide is largely against it. The reasons are based on safety and economics. Public opinion in Europe opposes nuclear plants because they generate radioactive waste whose storage can kill and injure future generations. Dr. Chetan Upadhyaya, Satya Foundation e-mail: namastemedia@rediffmail.com
