[Reader-list] Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on nuclear power

[Partha Dasgupta]

Hi,

I certainly agree that India is already short of requisite power, and our
fairly heavy dependence on thermal power stations (which use coal) is not
only environment-unfriendly (both in mining as well as burning).

On the hydro-generation front also we have issues because the global warming
is melting the glaciers that are the font of our rivers.

Realistically speaking, solar and wind power can't really provide the amount
of power to be generated and can only be supplemental.

Don't see much choice other than nuclear power - which leaves the issue of
containing the radioactive material.

"Between the devil and the deep blue sea"

Rgds, Partha
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On 9/18/07, prakash ray <pkray11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> http://www.ptinews.com/pti/ptisite.nsf/$All/C7A7E79DFD09103765257359003E5CFF?OpenDocument
>         We can't avoid nuclear power : Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee  Kolkata,
> Sept 17 (PTI) As his party continued to oppose the Indo-US civil nuclear
> deal, West Bengal Chief Minister and CPI-M leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
> today said the country cannot avoid nuclear power and wanted scientists to
> debate this and come to a conclusion.
> "We just cannot avoid nuclear power. We should move ahead taking into
> account the price of nuclear plant and cost of power," Bhattacharjee told
> an
> interactive session with the captains of industry organised by CII.
> Bhattacharya was however silent on the nuke deal.
>
> On Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent statement that India could not
> miss the bus of nuclear renaissance, Bhattacharjee said, "We have some
> doubts about the price of nuclear plants, the cost of power etc.
> Scientists,
> planners and economists should discuss this.
>
> "Let the scientists debate, we will take a decision after that."
> Bhattacharjee had yesterday stated that the state government had not taken
> a
> decision on nuclear power yet because of divided opinion on it.
>
> The state, he said, required more power in coming years because "our
> growth
> rate is increasing and FDI is coming." He said that 96 per cent of power
> in
> the state was generated by thermal power and "We have to switch over from
> thermal to solar, wind and other sources of power. In view of the problem
> of
> global warming, we need clean power." PTI
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