Sir, I don't think that Nuclear Energy is a replacement for crude oil or petroleum. The need for oil is to meet out vehicular transportation needs and not our requirements of bulk electrical power. Today this is being met with coal and hydel. Our poor energy management has resulted in a large stock of coal at Jharia mines of BCCL under fire. This has been going on for the past 30 to 40 years and we as a nation have no clue to stopping this enormous wastage of resources. In any case Nuclear Power is not going to meet more than 7% of our energy demand. The price for this requirement is too high.
