Nuclear Thread - 4

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<b>Atomic energy could have lit 40 million homes</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There is a great irony lurking behind the highly secretive doors of India’s atomic energy establishment.

<b>Even without the Indo-US nuclear deal, at least 40 million more homes could have been lit up for an entire year in power-starved India if the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) had mined and used the extensive uranium reserves lying untapped for years</b>.

On Friday, the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India hammered home that point in a damning audit report that peels off the DAE’s sheen. It faulted the all-powerful department for the fuel crisis that is causing India’s nuclear reactors to run at half or less of their capacity.

<b>This “denied the nation the full benefits of clean nuclear energy to the extent of 21,845 million units corresponding to Rs 5,986 cores,” the report said. One person uses an average of 553 units of electricity in India every year</b>.

“This (estimation of financial losses) can only be a theoretical exercise which leads to misleading conclusions,” the DAE told the auditor in response. It accepted the facts stated by CAG but added: “Due to (the) mismatch in demand and supply of fuel for (reactors) since 2003-4, these were being operated at lower levels to conserve fuel.”

But the DAE itself is responsible for that mismatch.
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Babu can move pen only after getting some hafta. No hafta , no work.
Let private industry run Nuclear plant, reduce government Babu from daily life of Indians.