Who am I to enlighten you, Mr Prasad.All I know is that we are tremendously short on power. We have our limitations in hydel power generation, solar & wind energy alone is not solution. We r looking at all options of energy including gas from iran & other countries. N energy is only one of the many options but is an imp & clean option.India is onto a fast industrial growth. New industries need tremendous amount of power. Every MW of coal based power is adding tremendously to the green house gases and global warming. If you add another 25000MW of coal based thermal power plant to the existing capacity, this country will become unlivable with pollution. You hv only heard of acid rains& not witnessed it. The sulphur dioxide & trioxide from power plants will cause acid rains. China has already started facing the problem. The only choice available to India is go for Nuclear power plants in a big way. In France, almost 80% of all the electricity needs are being met through Nuclear power plants. We also have to do it. For that we need the 123 agreement. N energy is clean energy & is the way to proceed in future. The only way to progress is to move forward not backward.We have made progress in N field in last 30 yrs but our progress is limited in the face of international denial of technology. We can get reactors from Russia & France but the fuel to run these reactors is the problem. We have made headway in indegenious Thorium reactors but this is not yet proved or perfected.
