At present India gets 3% of its power form nuclear reactors. If USA starts building new facilities today, it will start producing power in 7 to ten years. The best estimate is 7% of India's power will come from nuclear power plant by 2020. This is a huge jump given the fact that India's power genration will increase between 3 to 5 fols by then. Power from these new stations will be way more expensive than cole powered plants but they will be pollution free. The problem may arise when:
1. Accident happens. USA did not build any new plant for about 30 years. There was Chernobyl melt down. 2. Decommissioning a reactor at the end of its life cycle is exgtremely expensive unless you are willing to contaminate the environment. US electricity customers are heavily paying for decommissioning. This means you have to pay even if do not get anything. This aspect is very difficult to explain to ordinary indians like us.
RE:Nuclear power
by rohn on Jul 24, 2008 07:05 PM Permalink
well.. all i know is there is 7 hrs of power cut at my house from the past one year and i live in the suburbs of Mumbai.... :) ... can you say something abt that ?? and we call our country progressing ? well progressing in which direction ?? well if we want to grow , we need power.. we need energy.. with time the need for enegry is gonna increase...and it will. from where will the power come ?
