The Author put concerns of one side, mostly negative aspects. India's Planned Nuclear Power before Pokhran I was 16,430 MWe by the year 2000. soon after Pokhran-I we reduced it to 10,000 MWe by the year 2000. What did we achieve? Hardly 2000 MWe. So it is clear that with our indigeneous efforts we will be nowhere. The two Nuclear Power Plants which are comong up in Kudankulam are from Russia including fuel. The costs are already worked out and unit electricity cost is less than thermal power stations. So please do the home work before raising an issue.
RE:The other side
by Satish on Dec 23, 2006 09:18 AM Permalink
Imagine what we can do with fraction of 150 BILLION USD that we are going to spend buying reactors.
RE:The other side
by Satish on Dec 23, 2006 09:16 AM Permalink
You pathetic looser. Its not just the electricity.
The amount of money that we spend on buying the reactors and fuel (with no gurantees) is around 150 BILLION US DOLLERS in 15 to 20 years. Now compare what can be done with that kind of money spent on alternative sources of energy. Say reduce/completely remove any duties/cess/taxes on foto voltaic cells for energy generation, giving subsidies for private industries for generating energy by establishing wind mill farms, investing in clean coal technologies, exploring gas reserves in Krishna-Godaveri basin and so on...apart form effeciently mining uranium. The shortage of uranium in india is only temperory arbiteration only (india has 78,000 metric tons of proven minable uranium).
Is it worth to sacrifice your nuclear secrets, research data on thorium, mortgaging foreign policy and constantly living under the threat of sanctions.
Looser get a life first. Before arguing about amount of electricity generated by indeginious program compare the amount of money spent for with the whole program with any other nuclear program including R&D you can easily conclude what we have a great deal on our own a at bargain price.
