This is one of more useless topics on nuclear deal. Just goes on to talk about useless stuff. Whatever facts are attempted are twisted to suit his idea.
Firstly, there is no stopping India from employing minimum nuclear deterrent. This fear is utter nonsense. Only civilian reactors will be placed in safeguards. He talks about China's 1% reactors in safeguard which is laughable. This statement would be true if China had 100 reactors and 1 of them was in safeguard. A simple search shows China has 11 civilian reactors. Anyways, China is furiously importing some of most advanced reactors to increase upto 6 times the nuclear power generation. Then he talks about India's power generation being 16000 MW by 2020 which is even lower then minimum target which is 20000MW and some knowledgable folks have said can be 40000MW(with imported reactors/fuel). Fact is total Uranium reserves of India can not support more than 10000MW of electricity generation. It is altogether a different matter than UCIL can not mine at a lot of places due to their poor track record of safety etc. As is the case for usual opposers, this article is based more on ideology, twisted facts etc.
India is heavily short of electric energy and needs as much energy as possible to grow rapidly and pull people out of poverty. In future, if Thorium based projects become big success, there would no need to place those plants in safeguards. Till then, time to grow rapidly and not bogged down by very remote possibilities.
