The Indo-US nuclear deal is based on the urgent need of the country to enhance its power generation capacity. AT the same time we cannot compromise our deterrent defence capability. Our Indian scientist, with their budgetary constraints and endless govt. paperwork have done us proud in the past and will continue to do so. We have the technical capability, I presume, to take care of our deterrent defense needs, irrespective of the nuclear deal. We should therefore not enter into a deal if it is being pushed for by "nuclear business community" but if we do, then atleast lets make sure that our power generation and corresponding investment is not compromised and leave it to our scientists to figure a way of maintaining our nuclear deterrent.
RE:Nuclear Power
by neel sanghvi on Mar 18, 2007 09:46 PM Permalink
it is totally wrong that india needs n-deal for its own need. this all is politically motivated.
RE:RE:RE:Nuclear Power
by Neo on Mar 19, 2007 12:11 AM Permalink
We dont need american reactors for generating power Kutta. Russians can provide both reactors and fuel, as many as we want if we had the money. And India could itself build it. See Kaiga nuclear plant. And Kaiga is 250MW reactors each...so we have gone past the 50MW stage long time back. We dont have the money to spend on Nuclear plants re. Although the plan 2020 predicts 20000MW of nuclear power, its much costly to build nuclear plants. They provide economy in very long run.
RE:RE:Nuclear Power
by Kutta on Mar 18, 2007 11:59 PM Permalink
India's reactors are very small size as compared to other countries with AVERAGE power production of only 30 MW per plant as compared to 500 MW in advanced countries, which means we have a long way to go.
Regarding the development of indegenius thorium based reactors, they are still under development with the first prototype reactor will be tested in 2009. ACTUAL commercial reactors are 20 to 25 YEARS away !!! How much population would have increased by then ?
So we need reactors urgently NOW. If domestically we cant produce mega reactors quickly then go for imports.
