[quote name='ramana' date='02 May 2012 - 01:16 AM' timestamp='1335901130' post='114780']
The deal was offered by India to get out of the NSG dog house. They attached all kinds of conditionalities in Hyde Act and are surprised that the Liability Act makes them liable in case of an accident. After Fukushima no one wants to take chances with clean up costs. Furthere there is the Unon Carbide track record.
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Well I am not sure we are out of the NSG dog house. Anil Kakodkar feels the gentleman's agreement was breached and we were lead up the garden path. A lot of us even back then were skeptical on the Hyde Amendment. The ENR restrictions should have been the final nail in the coffin of the nuclear deal. With too many foreign plants our phatakas will never see the light of day. Maybe there is a bigger nuclear deal scam in progress with non competitive allocation of foreign plants as well. After these come online, we don't have guaranteed supply lines or storage of fuel for these reactors. We also need to use our own scarce ENR plants for all these foreign plants delaying our third stage boot strap. Also note that Anil Kakodkar even after the French statements pointed out that there is nothing on ENR transfer on the deal signed with France.The French have agreed to abide by the agreement and are silent on the president's declaration of providing ENR plants to India. Russia enacted a law on non export to non NPT countries of ENR technology even before the indian nuclear deal. Hilary Clinton responds in hyperboles on ENR. MMS never brought the deal to the parliament as promised.
The only reprieve we got through the deal which is still intact is the nuclear fuel import restrictions being lifted. It also goes out with a nuclear test. I don't see how we can continue down the garden path with lots of imported reactors as stated in the sunday guardian article and still test again unless we get enough from the deal to bootstrap the thorium only plants which can then be used to bootstrap other thorium only plants.
The deal was offered by India to get out of the NSG dog house. They attached all kinds of conditionalities in Hyde Act and are surprised that the Liability Act makes them liable in case of an accident. After Fukushima no one wants to take chances with clean up costs. Furthere there is the Unon Carbide track record.
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Well I am not sure we are out of the NSG dog house. Anil Kakodkar feels the gentleman's agreement was breached and we were lead up the garden path. A lot of us even back then were skeptical on the Hyde Amendment. The ENR restrictions should have been the final nail in the coffin of the nuclear deal. With too many foreign plants our phatakas will never see the light of day. Maybe there is a bigger nuclear deal scam in progress with non competitive allocation of foreign plants as well. After these come online, we don't have guaranteed supply lines or storage of fuel for these reactors. We also need to use our own scarce ENR plants for all these foreign plants delaying our third stage boot strap. Also note that Anil Kakodkar even after the French statements pointed out that there is nothing on ENR transfer on the deal signed with France.The French have agreed to abide by the agreement and are silent on the president's declaration of providing ENR plants to India. Russia enacted a law on non export to non NPT countries of ENR technology even before the indian nuclear deal. Hilary Clinton responds in hyperboles on ENR. MMS never brought the deal to the parliament as promised.
The only reprieve we got through the deal which is still intact is the nuclear fuel import restrictions being lifted. It also goes out with a nuclear test. I don't see how we can continue down the garden path with lots of imported reactors as stated in the sunday guardian article and still test again unless we get enough from the deal to bootstrap the thorium only plants which can then be used to bootstrap other thorium only plants.