India has got so many things going on and India re-iterated that even if the offer comes from super power if it doesn't benefit us we can stand our ground. The nuclear deal is not a communist/left issue. It is India's sovereign right to pursue nuclear weapons and carry out research in regards to that. The nuclear deal will cut short that privilege and India is right in not getting into this deal. Indian can stand on its own for its energy needs. India has the 2nd largest deposits of Thorium.
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by MOHAN PYARE on Oct 26, 2007 10:36 AM Permalink
There is no clause in the 123 agreement which says that India can not do research or should not use thorium? Where did Mr.Shadow get such funny news that this deal will stop India from research and development? As on date, there is no power reactors where you can use thorium for power generation. Twi day back an article appeared on rediff in which Dr.Kalam expressed hope that we will develop a thorium based power reactor in 5 to 7 years time.
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by Truth BeTold on Oct 26, 2007 08:56 AM Permalink
Well our research is all visible everywhere. Take LCA (Tejas), or air to air trishul missile or cryogenic engines that we could never develop until Russia loaned us one to figure out how it works. So regardless of whether the deal was beneficial to India or not, we dont have research infrastructure to support any genuine product development.
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by on Oct 26, 2007 09:40 AM Permalink
Add to that list Arjun the MBT. After decades of delay it still can't meet army specs. So India imports T-90 tanks from Russia. So much DRDO product development! And many years delayed is Tejas now! Just read today, current operational date is 2013 for Tejas, and this was supposed to have been available in mid-1980s!
Thorium based FBR reactor is far more complicated to develop in a commercial scale. So good luck on that if it gets done by 2050! Until then the option is between undrinkable water or unbreathable air due to pollution from coal-fired power plants (let alone global pressure to curb green house gas emission), or the economy coming to halt due to lack of power (tell me abt other alternative source when they reach scalability to power a nation of billion plus population or India is ready to create hydro power projects like Three gorges in China which caused huge environmental and humanitarian disasters).
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by Saibaskar Parthasarathy on Oct 26, 2007 09:02 AM Permalink
if you are in India name one month in the whole of last year when you did not experience a power cut.. And why should Thorium research stop India from obtaining more nuclear reactors for power generation? Research does not have fixed timeline so should indians wait in the dark till Thorium research is completed. Let all the research for alternate energy be explored but this deal could solve our power shortage issue within say 8 - 10 years. By the way nuclear reactors are not permenant solution as they are an inherent risk. So, not only India but the world by and large should try to obtain renewable alternate source of energy
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by Krishna Prasath on Oct 26, 2007 09:38 AM Permalink
do you know how much time and effort that is needed for developing thorium based reactors? do you know the current state of Indian n-reactor research? do some search before you say we will use bla bla bla
