Krishna, the first consideration is to get the power generated. Then comes the cost. And I do not think testing of Bombs has anything to do with generating power. There is a big power crises on the horizon and we have to find a solution today. Otherwise, we shall be back to an era of 18 hours a day power cut. Yes, it is very much possible if we do not add several Mega Power projects. Many of them will be Thermal Units, a couple of them at the best of Hydro-based and some of them have to be the Nuclear Reactors. We must have to chose from all available sources while keeping an eye on the future possibilities. And the choices with us are very limited.
The combination will give us a realistic cost. We can not have the cheapest ones only. That is not going to fulfil even 5% of the increment in our power requirements. Otherwise we will be left far behind. And we can not sit quite and wait for the future developments on the non-conventional energy sources. If we do that we have to search for wood fuel for tomorrow morning's cooking. Even that may not be available.
Yes, we have to have Bombs as well as have to go ahead in exporting Mangoes.
