1st China is also dependent on West & Australia for fuel. If it conducts Ntests, sanctions will apply to it. It can bye pass like India did after 1998 tets. (Same pt. valid for India too as world has become interdependent. US is also dependent on India for many things. So costs of imposing sanctions on India will effect US too. It is not a 1 way street anymore). 2nd China is major threat to US interests. For it, India acts as a countervailing force to China. Why then will it upset its applecart??? In fact US is trying to encircle China. 3rd U talk of self reliance. We will be self reliant only once our Thorium reactors come in force which is some yrs away.But even this technology would require some (nominal) use of Uranium for the initial cycle.The idea is to generate this from reproceesed fuel & use it in Thorium reactors. Hence, in Ndeal we insisted on reprocessing rights over the spent nuclear fuel so that we have enough Uranium to run our Thorium reactors. Our own meager Uranium reserves will then be purely for military use.4th. If US stops fuel supply, France & Russia will step in. But without the deal they 2cannot supply fuel to us, as is the case 2day.5th. Even 2day, we r a energy deficient country & industry runs at 50% optimum capacity. Our needs 15-20-30 yrs hence would be mindboggling. If we do not hv Nfuel, we collapse under our own wt. Besides, we depend on OPEC (read muslim)countries for fuel & its negative environmental effects.Why put all eggs in 1 basket?
