The Nuke Deal (or No Deal)?
In my last post I talked about the trust vote. In this post however, I try to focus on why is there a deal being done. Remember I do not represent any party and the views in the post are completely mine.
Now, The Nuke Deal, 123 agreement has had it’s share of criticism, people are asking questions if it means power or something else?
The question people are really asking are :-
1. Does India really have a shortage of the Nuclear Fuel, Uranium?
Answer : That’s actually wrongly put, Uranium is not the only nuclear fuel used in nuclear reactors. Other stuff like Thorium are also used. India has however been designing fast reactors based on thorium as fuel requiring very less uranium as the start up fuel. India has 0.8% of world uranium reserves that’s around 78,000 tones of that metal. Isn’t that enough? Yes it kinda is to generate electricity for India needs. India has also been able to built the FTBR (Fast Thorium Breeder Reactor) which can work wonders. Although this technology is still not implemented, people are quite sure that this process will work. This reactor basically breeds Uranium and Plutonium. Thus, we can double our capacity every 15-20 years, theoretically.
2. Does India have shortage of nuclear fuel [Uranium] and its technology to reprocess?
Answer : The development of FTBR, which not only breeds plutonium [Which can be used as input] but also breeds uranium. It is also called twin core reactor for its unique design. These all inputs prove that indeed we do have the technology to process and re-process nuclear fuels.
3. Is re-processing so important that without it we can’t prosper?
Answer : Hell to the yes, we need reprocessing of fuel to breed it and enhance our overall potential to generate power or electricity, whatever we use it for. This was in fact India’s three step program to achieve independency in nuclear power
4. Now the big(gest) question : What’s the purpose of this Indo-US deal then?
Answer : Today the world is not the correct representation of its constituents. The NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) and CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) do not treat responsible countries with a different attitude rather it favors only specific countries. No country can undo the process of the NPT or the CTBT. So basically to gain backdoor entry into nuclear club, this nuke deal is being done.
Being said that, I would further say this is not the only reason. In case of India, it gives it an opportunity to legitimize the nuclear weaponisation of the country. It also provides an opportunity to override the international rules for non-nuclear country as per the NPT. India has its own nuclear weapons programme. I earlier did say that our Uranium reserves are enough for power generation, but these very same reserves are also needed for the weapons programme. If they are used for weapons, we will not be able to re-process them. If this deal goes through, we can use the indigenous nuclear fuel for our weapons programme and use imported fuel for our power generation.
My reaction is quite obvious I guess, I kinda do support the Nuke Deal and I do expect the educated people to understand why. Heck, we can’t have a person who can’t even talk in English be the Prime Minister of our country nor can we have a extreme Hindu man becoming our PM, he’ll fuck the minorities up. The Muslims were rumored to be against the N-deal [WTF?] Omar Abdullah actually cleared that up in his speech on the day of the trust vote, it happens to be one of the best speeches made that day. Anyway this deal might be good for country and it might be bad, whatever it is, it’s gonna go through. So why don’t we just hope that it’s something good and that finally the government has started thinking about the common man? Even though that’s quite unlikely. I also don’t think that the government should hide the text of the N-deal. One of the people I discuss politics with actually went ahead and said there should have a public voting on this issue. I guess if they did have a public voting it would have wasted time that this government and the Bush administration didn’t have. Anyway now we’ll see some reforms which the Left didn’t approve of being made, so I guess that’s a good thing.
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11 Responses to “The Nuke Deal (or No Deal)?”
Wow, I’m blown away. This is huge XD
Seriously explains a lot about the N-deal shit going on man, wtf I didn’t know you knew all this XD
By Steve on Jul 27, 2008
I get it now, WOOHOO I get politics! XD
By Krittika on Jul 27, 2008
Wow, serious post :/
By Tobby on Jul 27, 2008
@Steve : I didn’t, now I do.
@Kris : Ee, yeah not too much of politics in this post.
@Tobby : Yup <_<
By Jayesh on Jul 27, 2008
Nice info there.(Y)
But:
“Heck, we can’t have a person who can’t even talk in English be the Prime Minister of our country nor can we have a extreme Hindu man becoming our PM, he’ll fuck the minorities up.”
No. Don’t agree with it.
By Sumit on Jul 27, 2008
I was talking about BSP leader there. You have no clue what she is do you?
And the other person was Advani, he has come on record on saying that if he comes into power, he will destroy the Babri Masjid.
By Jayesh on Jul 27, 2008
Oh you will find I have a fairly good “clue” to who and what she is. And I am not worried over her coming to power anytime soon.
And as for Advani, he can say whatever the hell he wants, but if you take some time to read the party manifesto, you will find that BJP is by far, one of the most sane parties out there.
Since we have to chose from a crowd of losers to lead; since a one party rule seems to be a distant dream now and since all of the options have significantly questionable vices, I think the choice of whom to bring to power will have to be made based on parties and a leadership collective as a whole and not just based on the personality of a single man.
By Sumit on Jul 28, 2008
I agree with the guy who last commented. BJP is really the sane party out there though the only problem is that the Muslim leaders are insecure about Mr.Advani because of his statements, I went through Omar’s speech and he did express his fear of loosing the Masjid. I guess whatever the party stands for goes to shit when the leader of the party makes some bad statements and chooses not the right words to express his view.
But then the Jayesh has a point too and I agree with him on the point that we cannot really even think of a person who can’t speak a word of English to bring the government down.
Personally I like the Congress, I find them to be quite anti-non-Muslim. But then they go ahead and try to annoy the Hindu’s over the Ram-Sethu.
By Rohan on Jul 28, 2008
True. But I am pretty confident that except a bunch of people in UP no one is going to support her anywhere.
BJP, in its manifesto states that it will make the Ram Mandir. Did it do anything about it yet? Does it have the power to snatch away a piece of debated land and start making stuff on it in a coalition government? NO.
And Pro-Minority and Anti-Minority shit annoys me. We were supposed to be a secular republic remember? Read the preamble of the constitution. Secular means respecting all religions, not increasing reservations, kissing minority leaders asses and forgetting about the common good. Simply because a section of people in a religion were better positioned 200 years ago or a section of people are in the majority in this country doesn’t mean you fuck them over backwards and forwards and however the hell you please because, well, they are the majority and they can take care of themselves. And Congress, since the last 20-30 years has had a non secular favouritist agenda. Secularism means equality and respect for all religions and classes. Atleast BJP doesn’t pretend to be secular. And I guess it can never be, as long as it has its VHP-RSS bindings. But when they are in power, the decisions made by them are pretty much balanced. (Which may be due to the coalition, but what the hell, one party rule cant come, and the end result is good decision making.)
An agenda of this kind only creates a rift in a country and eventually makes it burn. (The Gujjar riots are a good example of this fact.)
By Sumit on Jul 28, 2008
^ forgot to respond to that.
Exactly she knows that, you know and even I know that so which basically means she should stop making a a fool outta’ herself.
No it doesn’t in a coalition government, I think I was talking about what if BJP will win the next elections and even though it doesn’t have the right to anything it is and I quote “Hurting people’s sentiments”
I agree but then there are not people like you who rule the country. There are types of politicians. Anti-Minority/Pro-Minority. I agree with you on the fact that we are a secular nation. But the constitution says a lot of things like Freedom of speech, if Jaya Bachpan [Not a typo <] said she wanted to talk in Hindi you CANNOT go ahead and make an issue about it. Recently a newspaper report said that Raj Thackreyz son dropped Marathi and took French :D
True, BJP never said it favored secularism.
On the whole I guess I have no option but to agree with you on some points but then there are these statements which make them not come in power.
Advani PM in the waiting.. Rahul Gand0hi PM in the making XD
By Jayesh on Sep 10, 2008
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By Willard Franks on Nov 13, 2008