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Prasanth
Bewarse Legend
Username: Prasanth
Post Number: 26613
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 203.200.218.2
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, September 28, 2007 - 5:38 am: |    |
idhi teerikaga sadavaalsina thread..and look for others inputs tooo...
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Pda
Celebrity Bewarse
Username: Pda
Post Number: 15236
Registered: 06-2006
Posted From: 75.161.107.194
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:49 pm: | |
Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it. |
Vytwo
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Vytwo
Post Number: 5992
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 69.142.187.154
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:45 pm: | |
nenu sadiva motham opika chesukoni.
ee topic mida oka research cheyyali .
andaru cheppindhi collect chesi.
what are the pros and cons ani.
and maka one good article .
cheyya radu nuvvu pda mama.
niku bhaga opika kada .
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Pda
Celebrity Bewarse
Username: Pda
Post Number: 15233
Registered: 06-2006
Posted From: 75.161.107.194
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:39 pm: | |
antha article sadive opika ledu
Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it. |
Vytwo
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Vytwo
Post Number: 5990
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 69.142.187.154
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:37 pm: | |
motham article chaduvu mama.
he is stressing on other forms of energy .
nuclear treaty valla manamu fully depenmdent on usa .
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Vytwo
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Vytwo
Post Number: 5989
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 69.142.187.154
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:35 pm: | |
Informed critics argue, plausibly, that the 123 Agreement is a strategic victory for the US and zero success for us
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Pda
Celebrity Bewarse
Username: Pda
Post Number: 15231
Registered: 06-2006
Posted From: 75.161.107.194
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:34 pm: | |
Yes we need. To compete with countries like china, in globalized world, we need more industries to suit our man power. Industries need energy, dedicated power supply. If that happens for our man power sky would be the limit. Good for people, good for country. we can not just compete with software resources.
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Vytwo
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Vytwo
Post Number: 5988
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 69.142.187.154
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:33 pm: | |
Germany is slowly closing down even existing nuclear plants. Nuclear waste disposal is the despair of technologists. This grave waste is ever radioactive and never safe for humanity..
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Vytwo
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Vytwo
Post Number: 5986
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 69.142.187.154
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:25 pm: | |
asalu ee topic mida oka opinion ki ravatam chala kashtam gha vundi .
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Vytwo
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Vytwo
Post Number: 5985
Registered: 01-2005
Posted From: 69.142.187.154
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:24 pm: | |
India doesn’t need nuclear power
By V.R. Krishna Iyer
Swaraj is no mirage, socialist-democratic republic no mega-myth, socio-economic justice no mere Constitutional rhetoric. Equally emphatically, the Union executive supremo’s ipse dixit is no totalitarian command, unless it is Constitutionally concordant. Contra-Constitutional action is tyranny and void, be the functionary ever so high, because state power springs only under the Constitution, not over it.
As a progressive nation, we need independent developmental technology, and plural alternatives for energy, tied not to the consumerist creamy layer but to the forgotten have-nots. What is at stake in the Indo-US nuclear deal is our political sovereignty, and socialist democratic ethos, people-oriented distributive energy policy.
Do we require nuclear reactors at all, and for whose profit? How radioactive, potentially explosive-prone is this sophisticated energy strategy? Nuclear reactors breathe radiation perennially and “today, it is an accepted medical fact that radiation causes cancer” (Dr Helen Caldicott in her book Nuclear Madness: The Choice Is Yours — A Safe Future — or No Future At All).
What are the grave, though hidden, consequences of cooperation between two unequal nations, one less powerful and the other with a tendency towards hegemony? We are a non-aligned, anti-colonial, Constitutionally socialist nation. The American uranium bounty is subject to the conditionalities of the Hyde Act plus the unlimited appetite of US nuclear energy big business waiting for huge Indian demand.
Informed critics argue, plausibly, that the 123 Agreement is a strategic victory for the US and zero success for us. Our Prime Minister is a statesman of integrity and some understanding of poverty economics, although with too great a faith in US imports and investments and indifferent to President George W. Bush’s foreign policy and its most dangerous component, a military menace.
The Prime Minister, in his recent reply to my letter, has stressed, “I would like to re-emphasise that there is no intention to take any steps that may harm our national interests in any way.” I must respectfully remonstrate, because even great men have committed grave errors. Gandhiji regretted his Civil Disobedience Movement as a Himalayan blunder after the violence in Chauri Chaura. In our unipolar world, the US dominates, and despises the pursuit of an independent foreign policy by other nations.
Washington pressures nation after nation into dependency, using, where it can, the international treaty regime. The US-India Agriculture Agreement has, says Dr Vandana Shiva, hijacked India’s agriculture. She writes: “If India exports wheat, Cargill profits. If India imports wheat, Cargill profits. Meantime Indian farmers commit suicide and Indian children starve. Cargill’s growth in markets and profits is intimately linked to the growth of hunger and poverty in India.”
Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, a former Chief of the Naval Staff, in respectful criticism of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, recently wondered how a strategic partnership can be forged with a “hegemon which has demonstrated time and again its belief in pre-emptive warfare, has violated international law, the UN Charter, and according to the Nuremberg Principles has committed the supreme war crime of invading another country. The US nuclear doctrine holds out threats of launching a nuclear war on 1,200 targets in Iran inside 72 hours, despite the latest IAEA certification that Iran does not have a weapons programme. Successive US administrations have attacked, invaded or bombed 66 countries, post World War II...”
Prime Minister Singh argues that neither our carbon resource, which is quantitatively limited and qualitatively poor, nor the vast hydro-electric potential, which is dangerous because of polluting environmental prospects, vis-à-vis high dams, will be useful and, therefore, nuclear reactors, borrowing uranium from the US, are the principal energy source necessary for Indian development.
US undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns has warned that people should not forget “in the twenty first century the shift in the global situation.” We have other sources of energy, including nature. Our wind power potential needs to be harnessed. Why ignore the gas resource convertible into electric power?
Or solar power (even little Nepal uses it) and unexplored bio-energy, particularly suited for our remote rural areas, plateaus and hilly regions? Our hydro-electric resource is of Himalayan dimensions and Ganga profusion, and can be a gigantic reservoir of power and inland navigational facility and drinking water supply at minimal cost if we make environmental preservation and people’s participation a feasible discipline. Why not produce a million minor and mini-projects so practical a boon to our uneven agrarian terrain?
Nuclear power has a thin future in America after the accidents of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. France, which has invested hugely in nuclear power, is an exception. Germany is slowly closing down even existing nuclear plants. Nuclear waste disposal is the despair of technologists. This grave waste is ever radioactive and never safe for humanity.
A few quotes from Dr A. Gopalakrishnan (former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board) shake the wisdom and patriotism of the PM’s fancy for Bush America making India a client state: “India’s major primary energy resources are its large coal reserves in the eastern and southern states, the large potential yet to be tapped in the hydro-electric sector, and the vast resources of thorium present in easily mineable areas. If this government is really concerned with energy security, why are we not seeing any concrete actions on their part to utilise the above three forms of energy within the country, with a high priority and emphasis? The imported reactors need enriched uranium fuel, but India does not have modern enrichment technology, and importing this is also denied under this deal.
“The PM’s over-enthusiasm for nuclear reactors of the imported kind can only be explained as a deliberate attempt to spread out a welcome mat for foreign nuclear firms to sell their wares in India, and to make the questionable case for promoting the nuclear deal.
“The utter neglect of national energy resources and engineering capabilities in preference to limited and dubious assistance from the US under demeaning conditionalities indeed makes a poor case for this nuclear deal.” The people of India could pay a heavy price for an egregious error of its present ruling class.
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer is a former judge of the Supreme Cou
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