dear friends, i have not been able to understand the projection of 2030 or 2020 because india's energy need is more than 100 times larger than what is being projected through n-deal i.e. 2052 mw. the uranium reserves are limited, we can't expect our needs to be fullfilled through uranium energy plants even 10%. even if the n-deal gets operationalised, the first energy we will get from it not earlier than 2020. than why this is so much hue and cry? moreover indian scientists are working to build reacter to get energy through thorium, and thorium reserves are so ample in india that it is sufficient for world need for more than 1000 years. china recently has developed a small prototype of reacter based on thorium. when our scientists are working on such thorium based reactres why we should not provide them more and more adequate fascilities because through thorium to get energy it will also take as much same time as it is projected through uranim. once thorium based reactres get operationalise fully it will solve the world energy crisis. than why we are running to US for uranium based deal on US terms which is not going to fullfill our 2% energy need by 2030 as being projecte?
RE:The Indo-US nuclear deal
by Jack Sparrow on Jul 11, 2008 09:09 AM Permalink
because, for the thorium reactors to start functioning, we need plutonium which is a by product of uranium fission.. so, we need uranium for this reason..
also, if we use up our scientists on developing our own indigenous thorium reactor, it would take another 100 years to materialize but after this deal, India can buy thorium reactors from canada who are pioneers in building reactors... they already have functional thorium fast breeder reactors and is ready to lend the technology to India and N-deal is signed..!!
RE:The Indo-US nuclear deal
by ravishankar singh on Jul 11, 2008 10:29 AM Permalink
my dear jack sparrow, it is true that to functionalise thorium based reacters uranium is needed but in very small quantity and that much is avialable in india or india will be able to get it. what i feel that US is eyeing over our vast thorium resevoirs as it has done in Arab over petrolium by providing technical know how US has become masters of the Arabs fuel reservoirs . similarly US is eying over our vast reserves of thorium by traping indian government through its Hyde Act and indian sovereignty is going to hide befor Hyde! why should we not wait for some time and engage our scientists to exclarate thorium based reacters rather falling into trap of US as it has done in Arab countries for fuel?
