10-04-2007, 06:20 AM
<!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo--> Hisar, October 3
Dr S. Kalyanaraman, national president of the Ram Setu Raksha Manch, said here today that if implemented the sethusamudaram channel project would effectively destroy vast thorium reserves found in this area which could help generate 40,00,000 MW of power per year for the next 389 years.
Dr Kalyanaraman, a former senior executive of the Asian Development Bank, said India currently produced 1,00,000 MW of power per year. Indiaâs thorium reserves permitted the design and operation of U-233 fuelled breeder reactors which were under development in the country. These would serve as the mainstay of the final thorium utilisation stage of the countryâs nuclear programme.
He said a superpower was backing the project to destroy Indiaâs thorium reserves which could make India a superpower itself in the near future.
He said any devastation in the coastline of South India would have serious implications for thorium and titanium reserves found in abundance in the region. If these reserves, which were accumulating as placer deposits because of unique patterns of ocean currents and the presence of an effective tsunami barrier like Ram Setu, were lost in mid-ocean, these could not be utilised in a cost-effective manner to meet the requirements of Indiaâs atomic energy and space industries.
Dr Kalyanaraman said tsunami experts had opined that the channel alignment directly pointed towards the path of tsunami in the Bay of Bengal and created a funnel effect absorbing the energy of the tsunami or cyclones which could destroy the southern coastline and the coastline of Kerala.
He said Ram Setu was not just a pile of sand. Rather, it symbolised the belief of crores of people in India. The fight to save Ram Setu was the âdharmaâ of every Indian. He said in no case would the people of the country give up their struggle to save Ram Setu.
Dr S. Kalyanaraman, national president of the Ram Setu Raksha Manch, said here today that if implemented the sethusamudaram channel project would effectively destroy vast thorium reserves found in this area which could help generate 40,00,000 MW of power per year for the next 389 years.
Dr Kalyanaraman, a former senior executive of the Asian Development Bank, said India currently produced 1,00,000 MW of power per year. Indiaâs thorium reserves permitted the design and operation of U-233 fuelled breeder reactors which were under development in the country. These would serve as the mainstay of the final thorium utilisation stage of the countryâs nuclear programme.
He said a superpower was backing the project to destroy Indiaâs thorium reserves which could make India a superpower itself in the near future.
He said any devastation in the coastline of South India would have serious implications for thorium and titanium reserves found in abundance in the region. If these reserves, which were accumulating as placer deposits because of unique patterns of ocean currents and the presence of an effective tsunami barrier like Ram Setu, were lost in mid-ocean, these could not be utilised in a cost-effective manner to meet the requirements of Indiaâs atomic energy and space industries.
Dr Kalyanaraman said tsunami experts had opined that the channel alignment directly pointed towards the path of tsunami in the Bay of Bengal and created a funnel effect absorbing the energy of the tsunami or cyclones which could destroy the southern coastline and the coastline of Kerala.
He said Ram Setu was not just a pile of sand. Rather, it symbolised the belief of crores of people in India. The fight to save Ram Setu was the âdharmaâ of every Indian. He said in no case would the people of the country give up their struggle to save Ram Setu.