What results are you waiting for my friend?
Apart from Chernobyl and Three mile island, there has not been a nuclear power plant disaster that has taken a single life. The whole Fukushima drama resulted in 0 deaths. In India we have had zero incidents on the INES scale of higher than 3. The report is going to say - SAFE. The protests are going to continue. Sometimes we have to deal with people with unreasonable demands like the Chinese. Our reluctance to do that is costing our country.
btw : there have been more casualties from thermal and hydroelectric power plants than nuclear power plants. France gets 80% of its energy from Nuclear reactors.
no my friend i dint say i am awaiting disaster. I am awaiting the results of the nuke plant drama, though i have little hope it will be over soon. If you followed my posts you would know that i am a staunch supporter of the nuclear plant.
And yeah i know how important nuke plants are. I think nuclear power is more important than it is made out to be. These are my reasons. We should follow the french in this regard, producing 80% of our electricity from it. And rest should be from the renewable sources. The nuke power should be indigenised with the thorium cycle so that we dont have to depend on anyone.
This is very important in the long run for the security of our nation. The world oil deposits are falling fast. We can reduce our requirements of oil to bare minimum, by replacing it all with the alternates whenever possible, and the only alternate as of now is nuke power. We can electrify the rails and increase the network density of the railways hundred folds and we should increase the frequency of the railway connectivity. By doing so , we can minimise the requirement of oil to a bare minimum by replacing the need for personal transportations which need oil . And for other transports which cant be substituted by electricity, we can use ethanol or hydrogen, both being renewable. We can then use oil for synthesis of other things like fertiliser, synthetic fibres etc. Hence nuclear power is not just important for the power and economic growth, we can use it for our strategic planning and future.
Abandoning nuclear power because of past accidents is like refusing to go in a aeroplane fearing a crash, its moronic. Can we abandon buses just because they may face an accident? Anyway that said, we can work to make our nation an unique superpower by making it self sufficient which does not have to invade others for resources unlike those americans. Jai Hind.