If nuclear generated electricity were so environment friendly and easy to generate, US and JAPs would have discarded Petroleum run vehicle and would have set hundreds of reactor for electricity. Their dependence on oil is much more than India. Buttttttttt they have not gone nuclear. Why US wants to sell technology which they themselves not using?
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by rajiv jaiswal on Jul 12, 2008 09:24 PM Permalink
mr kautliya 70% of electricit yin france is generated by nuclear reactors, pls do some homework before commenting
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by Kautilya on Jul 12, 2008 09:34 PM Permalink
You are 100% right, but How many new reactors added in the last decade? None. WHY?
If nuclear reactor generated electricity were so friendly, electric run vehicles would have been in plenty not only in France but all over developed world? Why to look at oil for energy.
I hope you do homework and also read between the lines.
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by rajiv jaiswal on Jul 12, 2008 09:40 PM Permalink
Mr Kautliya read this Sixteen countries depend on nuclear power for at least a quarter of their electricity. France and Lithuania get around three quarters of their power from nuclear energy, while Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovenia and Ukraine get one third or more. Japan, Germany and Finland get more than a quarter of their power from nuclear energy, while the USA gets almost one fifth.
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by RAJ on Jul 12, 2008 09:38 PM Permalink
France is working on reducing the dependency on Nucleat energy by closing 32 plants by 2012. France is aiming to reduce its dependency on nuclear energy less than 20% by 2012, though it has high level reserve on nuclear fuel
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by neel sanghvi on Jul 12, 2008 10:20 PM Permalink
france is self dependant county and if india signs n-deal, it will make india dependant on others. that would have been worse. I wish india would have not let go great minds to outside countries and would have provided enough opportunities and proper competitive market. current problems of india will not be solved with n-deal but it will create one more problem for india. india has enough brain ane resoursed to be independant. what india needs is not to concentrate on reservation but to concentrate on proving market for r&d and give scientist enough resources and respect so they can create alternative energy which is cheaper and every indian can take pride on being indian.
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by Gopal on Jul 13, 2008 12:33 AM Permalink
Google: 'Group up for £17bn Sellafield job' Look at the cost of decommissioning the nuclear plants. We should not 'tax' the future generation who has to find funds to decommission the plant which were used by a previous generation. So a 'provision' has to be earmarked every year in the -operation and maintenance- budget of the plants. The 'provision' can be added to a corpus fund created for the purpose. The decommissioning last for 17 years with a burden of 1.7 billion pounds per year. What a burden!!
BTN ...India should be watchful to see that the equipment removed from these sites do not land in India as a 'second-hand' plant which is legally possible in India. AGAIN: Look at the Dounreay plant. Operationalized in 1957. Production stopped in 2004. Started demolition in 2007. Expected to complete the decommissioning by 2032. The Scottish government has said the waste materials should be stored at the site where it was produced. Radio active waste has been sealed in containers designed to withstand the grinding motion of glaciers of a possible ice age 10000 years from now. Final 'end point' completion will take 300 years. What!! Hope India also have a programme similar to this considering the seriousness of the subject. I am not against nuclear power.
