negotiations are indeed struck because of US's obtuseness. But we must not budge from our legal right to reprocessing and testing.
What we need is patience. For US the time is running out. India is close to finishing THORIUM BASED REACTORS SOON (and that was the target) so India will soon be independent in energy (WITHOUT US HELP) and this is something that US doesnot want and hence they offered uranium (so as to stop our funding of reasearch in FAST BREEDER REACTOR).
More time this deal takes the closer we get to our objective and so the stronger is our negotiating position.
So my dear friends, All we need is play time game.
After all we have nothing to lose (we are still out of nuclear world) where America can lose 100 billion dollar every year in uranium fuel onlee.
RE:In any game Patience wins
by Ramesh Nittoor on Apr 20, 2007 05:38 PM Permalink
Paradise Steamship Co, while you are right in generalities it is good to know that India is the ONLY nation with a fail-safe FBR designed, which incidentally is Thorium based and the prototype of which has been tested. India prefers international cooperation on this technology, if US continues to be a road blocker then the initial heavy Plutonium charge it needs could be resolved with a bilateral agreement with the friendly nation we have strong relation with.
RE:In any game Patience wins
by Ramesh Nittoor on Apr 20, 2007 05:42 PM Permalink
Besides, the lead nations with operational FBR are France and Japan, not USA nor USSR.
