The Biggest Question we must ask ourselves, is as to whether we have the capacity to produce enough energy for our requirements of year 2012 and beyond, for which we have to plan today. The Fast Breeder Technology, FBT, the indigenous one, is still at an experimental stage and bringing that to a commercial stage might take at least 10 years or beyond. We shall start with one commercial reactor first and may be by 2025 we may be able to build a couple more. No doubt, the FBT way is most suitable one in Indian Context. But banking on this will not make any good sense.
Secondly, India is facing a stringent embargo from all over and we have to live with it for ever. This Agreement may imply to ease that a little bit. Otherwise back to square one. No problem. By not signing, are we getting a better deal from the international community?
Both the parties are committing certain things on signing the Agreement. Why should we be so much vocal about the parties not adhering to those?
I have glanced through the Text and I do not think there is any thing that can stop us from continuing our effort on FBT, Nuclear Test or any other thing that we wish to do.
This is like my signing Papers for a Bank Loan. There, I can not dictate my terms and force the Bank to change the terms. Each of us know that the terms they ask us to sign, in all probability on dotted lines, are very much one sided, to the verge of derogatory, and are very much bias towards the Bank. How many of us hav
