Sunday, September 7, 2008

Indian nuclear deal.... healthy??

This is a hot topic on the media thesedays. Out of what i understand the following are the significant points.

  1. US would be supplying Uranium to us till its wish or all commercial reactors are under its surveillance & not being used for weapon research
  2. The Singhbhum district (Bihar), West Khasi hills (Meghalaya), the Bhima Basin area (Gulbarga district of Karnataka), and the Yellapur- Peddagattu area of Nalgonda district (Andhra Pradesh)has good amount of uranium reserves to feed the reactors
  3. All 17 working civilian nuclear reactors have been operating at less than 40% of their rated capacity(as said by S K Jain, managing director of the Nuclear Power Corporation)
  4. So it means that we donot have enough tech to get the required raw material to feed the industry. Note: that US will not supply critical tech during its support.
  5. Now we cannot proceed on weapons during this support.
  6. So, is it worth to substitute the national security (though we are stable now) for nuclear prog?
Other points:
  1. US cannot use its nuclear technology for itself as no state is ready to take the nuclear wastes.
  2. So it seems like what its going to get with this deal??? I think media and political parties should see this side.
Map:

Nuclear plants details:
Location Unit Namea Capacity
(net MWe) b
Utilityc Typed Reactor Suppliere Percent Completef Expected / Actual Date of Operation
Kaiga,
Karnataka
Kaiga 1 202NP PHWR NPCIL 7511/1998 1999
Kaiga 2 202NP PHWR NPCIL 7511/1998 2000
Kakrapar,
Gujarat
Kakrapar 1 202NP PHWR DAE/NPCIL 100
11/1992
Kakrapar 2 202NP PHWR DAEC/NPCIL 100
03/1995
Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu Kalpakkam 1 155NP PHWR DAE 100
07/1983
Kalpakkam 2 155NP PHWR DAE 100
09/1985
Kota,
Rajasthan
Rajasthan 1 90NP PHWR AECL 100
11/1972
Rajasthan 2 187NP PHWR AECL/DAE 100
11/1980
Rajasthan 3 202NP PHWR NPCIL 7011/1998 2000
Rajasthan 4 202NP PHWR NPCIL 7005/1999 2000
Rajasthan 5 450NP PWHR -- 020072008
Rajasthan 6 450NP PWHR -- 020082009
Kudankulam,
Tamil Nadu
Kudankulam 1 1,000 NP PWR -- 020062008
Kadunkulam 2 1,000 NP PWR -- 020082010
Narora,
Uttar Pradesh
Narora 1 202NP PHWR DAE/NPCIL 100
07/1989
Narora 2 202NP PHWR DAE/NPCIL 100
01/1992
Tarapur,
Maharashtra
Tarapur 1 150NP BWR GE 100
04/1969
Tarapur 2 150NP BWR GE 100
05/1969
Tarapur 3 450NP PHWR NPCIL 1008/2003 2004
Tarapur 4 450NP PHWR NPCIL 205/2004 2006

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