Dr. Srinivasan is certainly one of those persons who knows what he is speaking about, being close to 80. He knows how and why the search for uranium was slowed down while the pace of building nuclear reactors were accelerated. After all, he was in-charge of all this at one time. Now when the power stations are starving for fuel, what alternatives we are left with. And apart from nuclear isolation, we can hardly afford isolation on fronts of export of mangoes and many other farm based products. We have the farmers and their starvation due to lack of power to be concerned about. Therefore we should concentrate on issues related to cost of power rather than on testing bombs which we all know are never going to be used.
RE:Nuclear Deal
by Lalatendu Deo on Aug 29, 2007 10:31 PM Permalink
Krishna, the first consideration is to get the power generated. Then comes the cost. And I do not think testing of Bombs has anything to do with generating power. There is a big power crises on the horizon and we have to find a solution today. Otherwise, we shall be back to an era of 18 hours a day power cut. Yes, it is very much possible if we do not add several Mega Power projects. Many of them will be Thermal Units, a couple of them at the best of Hydro-based and some of them have to be the Nuclear Reactors. We must have to chose from all available sources while keeping an eye on the future possibilities. And the choices with us are very limited.
The combination will give us a realistic cost. We can not have the cheapest ones only. That is not going to fulfil even 5% of the increment in our power requirements. Otherwise we will be left far behind. And we can not sit quite and wait for the future developments on the non-conventional energy sources. If we do that we have to search for wood fuel for tomorrow morning's cooking. Even that may not be available.
Yes, we have to have Bombs as well as have to go ahead in exporting Mangoes.
