Thanks for a sound write up on the controversial deal after a long time.Yet there are many issues Mr.Vijay has not addressed or rather ignored.Yes,India's civil nuke program has lagged far behind in these 30 years.It is so easy to point out at what India planned but has not achieved.But what was achieved -nearly 16 power reactors the successful FBTR and the FBPR under construction.And all this was achieved entirely on own strengths,in total isolation.The question is:Should a nation always go looking for alms,deals and agreements to solve its basic issues of survival and welfare?Did US or Russia seek anyone's help when they went into depression and internal revolution?Did they not seek their own solutions,re-invigorate and reinvent themselves?Is it not the reason they are and will always as superpowers?Can you sign a deal which labels you as a subordinate,"receiver",while assigning to the other permanently the role of superpower, "giver".What is the technology that US will give India?Spent fuel reprocessing,enrichment,Fast Breeder tech?None at all.Only some light water reactors whose tech is all common knowledge in the corridors of BARC.Then why this chimera of a deal?Make it a plain commercial deal worth so many billion dollars in plain language.Also,having come so close to achieving generating commercial scale fuel from FBRs,can't we brace up and do something challenging?Like cutting short the 2nd stage and jump on to thorium cycle?Can we hope to be tech giants by 2020?
RE:Looking for piggy to ride the storm
by Chakravarthy Muralidhar on Sep 13, 2007 05:29 PM Permalink
There is one more thing I would like to add.India cannot sign a deal for the sake of the Indian diaspora settled in the promised land!If the expatriates feel let down just because they worked so hard for it,let them also sit down and list out what they did not do or should not have done which is the reason for so much opposition in India.Should Indians in India be permanently burdened with a power bill costing Rs.8 to 10 per unit just to keep the expatriates in good humour?Should India set aside Rs.6-8 lakh crores in order to honour the deal which 'promises' to help India add 40000 MW of nuke power capacity in the next 30 yrs?
RE:Looking for piggy to ride the storm
by Pradip Parekh on Sep 14, 2007 09:32 AM Permalink
oil is going to hit $100/barrel before the year is out, a 25pct rise in price.
