You commies and knickerwallah till yesterday had been crying aloud from your roof-tops, the deal is dead, the deal is dead!
All you must be looking rather foolish hearing the midnight news shock that MMS circulated the draft agreement with IAEA and by end of this month, the IAEA agreement signed. By mid-August, NSG will give their waiver so that the US Congress can pass the deal by September end, failing which November.
So now that the deal cannot be stopped, the next lie -deal cannot be operationalized before 10 years.
As soon as we get the NSG waiver, I am sure many countries will come to our doorsteps to supply uranium - a step that can immediately boost the capacity utilization of the 14 civilian nuclear plants we put under the deal. They are operating at below 50% capacity. So by year end we should see capacity utilization rise at least 10-20%.
It is rather puerile logic to suggest that we should forgo any thrust on nuclear power to pursue expansion of capacity on other energy options like wind energy. All these options are strategically being pursued by India simultaneously to reduce dependence on fossil fuel and gas.
The N-deal is not designed within a short term tunnel but a more broader long term vision. It does not envision India being nuclear importers but also lays the foundation for India to be a major global player in the nuclear market. It is possibly 10 years from now, the US will be buying our fast reactors and dependent on our thorium supply!
