If nuclear energy would have alternative to petroleum, US, France, Japan, Germany would have never looked at petroleum. Just get electricity from nuclear reactors, and run factories and transportation on electricity. Why to look at oil wells.
Incidentally, nuclear energy is not environment friendly. Developed world knows their nuclear technology is not safe. BUT, so what, they always can sell to India after nuclear deal.
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by All Right on Jul 12, 2008 10:13 PM Permalink
Yes US has not build nuclear plants and so did European countries like UK. Things have changed. The French experiment has shown that it can be safe. Beside spiraling cost of fossil fuels have redefined economic viability. So the US and UK are going big time into nuclear capacity creation.
Out of the 35 new nuclear power plants under construction in the world, Asia accounts for 24 of these. While China is building six new nuclear power plants to get 5,222 MW power for its grid, India too is building six such plants which would add 2910 MW of to its grid.
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by Kautilya on Jul 12, 2008 10:17 PM Permalink
Please also mention that Japan too is not increasing nuclear energy capacity which is fully dependent on oil from other countries. With all money and technology JAPs would have gone nuclear and would have kicked oil from their country. However it is not happening.
Mr. All Right, for japan nuclear energy is not all right.
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by ASHOK on Jul 12, 2008 10:40 PM Permalink
Mr Kautilya >> Altough Japan is earthquake prone and Nuclear plants should not be any priority at all but in 2003 they were making 3 new plants and 8 more units were planned to run right upto Year 2015. Pls do not make false propaganda.
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by All Right on Jul 12, 2008 10:21 PM Permalink
Maybe there were treaty obligations with the US after WW2, that they will not have a nuclear program. Similar could be the case of Germany.
As the price of oil scales $150, we need to see to what extent the nuclear option is being re-evaluated by countries
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by Kautilya on Jul 12, 2008 10:28 PM Permalink
It not question of cost-benefit ratio vis-a-vis oil. What developed world want is to make India dumping ground for their discarded reactors. Technology transfer is murky world.
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by AK on Jul 12, 2008 10:59 PM Permalink
More than treaty obligations, Japan is paranoid about nuclear since they are the only country that saw the effect of a nuclear bomb.
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by Sanjay on Jul 12, 2008 11:03 PM Permalink
Manu, we are fools who pay more then Americans for coke and pepsi but get contaminated drinks. We pay for ship of America, we find out latter it was junk, killed seven navy personnel and officiers; We still cant fix without america's permission, nor we are able to use it in war restriction on seller agreement.
Indians are fools who sent their engineers scientist, to America a puny nation of three hundred million, but have no good jobs or placements for them in our country. There was a Kurana who won Noble Prize who could not even get a job in India that is why he went back to America. India givs Ramanujans Notebooks to America, while we suffer.
Please understand the pathic state of corruption of this country, instead of tring to make thing worse then slavery and colonials, by making India the dumping ground for nuclear waste euphemism of PM spent fuel.
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by Guest on Jul 13, 2008 09:25 AM Permalink
Yes yes, I know; shadows are scary too! Unfortunately, Indian or American, they still haven't discovered medication for persecution complexes....
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by ASHOK on Jul 12, 2008 10:26 PM Permalink
pls do not mislead. More people die every years in Thermal power plant accidents than Nuclear. as long as these plants are in WEST ( Keep Commie run plants out) Commies have no respect for safety
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by Sanjay on Jul 12, 2008 11:05 PM Permalink
Ashok go raise your family in three mile Island, or Chernoble, you coolie number one who wish to cap our nuclear program. First cap pakistani and Chinese thn talk to us.
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by Shankara R on Jul 12, 2008 11:29 PM Permalink
Nuclear Power Plants Operating in the United States as of September 30, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: Many power plants have more than one reactor.
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