How? What about Hyde act. Here are the contentious points 1. No freedom to handle spend fuel. 2. No guarantee for alternate fuel supply 3. India is not a technology developer but a recepient. 4. India to side with US in NPT 5. India to participate with US National Security Administration for NPT. 6. Reporting of US President on the efforts of India in containing IRAN. 7. India denied space related dual use technology 8. India denied strategic planning of nuclear programms. 9. Stopped India in the production of fissile materials. 10.No joint move for universal nuclear disarmament. 11.All future agreeents are to be in consistent with this act. Hyde act is the enabling act for the 123 agreement.
RE:Sovereign interests protected?
by All Right on Jul 13, 2008 04:45 AM Permalink
Forget Hyde Act, first let them get the supplies for Tarapore plant which were inexplicably cut off and the plant languishing currently..
Hope they have made a clear mention to Tarapore plant in the agreement.... though nobody seems to mention it in the above story..
RE:Sovereign interests protected?
by Reporter on Jul 13, 2008 05:07 AM Permalink
Nuclear waste is DEADLY WASTE, more serious than CO2 and other emissions.
If a disaster occur in a normal power plant, we can do something to make the locality habitable.
But a nuclear disaster can make that area uninhabitable until the radio active nuclear waste is inactive and it can take may be hundreds of years.
Take the exmple of Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. The city is still mostly uninhabited due to radioactivity.
In order to meet the rising demand for energy, invite private companies to build power plants based on conventional fuels and new renewable sources ....
If well designed power plants in the capacity of reliance refinery in jamnagar comes up in south north east and west of India, we can solve the demand, may be in 5 years time . Anybody there to bet ???
If u go for nuclear plants, it is 100000 % sure that private parties will not be involved, investemnt to be made by the govt. Where is the money for it ??? ( They cant even subsidise oil or fertilizers ) So it will be on loan from world bank or IMF ...... how many years for construction and commissioning ??? Safe storage of nuclear waste generated ( high level and low level wastes) and finally disposal of the same safely for hundreds of years
So which option is better ???
If a desalination plant is also set up with power plants, it can meet the water requirements of millions with a little additional cost ....
RE:Sovereign interests protected?
by TIGER MAN on Jul 13, 2008 07:05 AM Permalink
this happened 25 years ago during the cold war era when India n Us were on opposite sides. The world today is a completely different place now.
RE:Sovereign interests protected?
by All Right on Jul 13, 2008 08:26 AM Permalink
:) Yeah the world is a different place today.... USA has suddenly been converted into a Charity organisation... They have suddenly been converted into monks and nuns.... and they want to do universal good -- trying to repeat the good deeds in Iraq... :) Bush is a bigger philanthropist than the Pope.. :) Is that the reality?.. :)
