I have tried to go through minute details abt this deal...problem is that UPA govt has maintained little transparency abt the deal...they havent discussed the exact restrictions in hyde act in parliament...i believe this deal is surely going to affect our moratorium on further nuclear test...why we r too desparate to have such deal with US-a country that has denied us cryogenic technolgy which kept our GSLV programme stagnant for a decade...r nt they going to dictate us on our foreign policies? no doubt we can not meet our energy needs with our conventional fuels nd need to develop atomic technogy to meet our growing requirement...we can trust our old partner RUSSIA for providing this u233 technology...our nuclear research is based on 3 diverse spectrum..1st u233 nd we cannnot really carry it forward as our country has short reserve of uranium..the other involves thorium nd hard water ...our scientists r working on other 2 nd in near future we r expecting some breakthrough which will make our country self reliant...US is eager to sign this deal because it is expecting to gain 150 billion dollars in coming future...
RE:Why dont we have this deal with russsia
by Jagannath Pattanayak on Feb 27, 2008 07:28 PM Permalink
As far as U-233 technology is concerned, not many country are pursuing it. This is solely because they don't have as much Thorium as India do. Most of the research fast reactors (building blocks for U-233)has been closed in various developed countries. India is trying to build a proto-type fast reactor, which I doubt will be a success. No country has ever tried the fast reactor in large scale.
What we need to understand is the U-233 program can't run on its own. It needs the U-235 and fast reactors as well. We don't have enough uranium reserves (all the reactors in the country are running at reduced rating at this moment due to this). The public is opposing any mining of uranium in potential sites. It is really difficult to persuade people for the mining of uranium. The only option we have is to import uranium from other countries (i.e. US, Australia etc.)
About Russia..India is already in a pact with Russia and building some 4 power plants in Tamilnadu. Even Russia has not done any U-233 reactor in large scale.
I agree that US is pursuing the edal only because of monetary benefits. But are not we also going to get the benefits out of the deal? The only thing I am concerned is guarantee of fuel supply.
About the weapon tests. If you didn't succeded in the last two attempts, then I thing we really don't deserve nuclear weapon. If you succeded, there is no need for any further tests. In todays world, I don't see any country using any nuclear weapon. Its so devast
