1. CONTENTS
1. NUCLEAR ENERGY: THE INEVITABLE SOURCE OF ENERGY TO RELY
2. INDIA’S QUEST FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY
3. HER IMPACT BEING A NUCLEAR POWER
4. TERMINOLOGY: IAEA, NPT, NWS, CTBT
5. THE CATASTROPHE: THE NUCLEAR DEAL AND THE 1-2-3 AGREEMEN
6. THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
7. ADVANTAGES
8. WORRIES
9. U.S. INTERVENETION AND AREAS OF INTEREST SURROUNDING THE
10. WHY SO DESPERATION?
11.POLITICAL DIVERSION OVER THE DEAL
12. EXPLOITATION OF RIGHTS
13.THE RIGHT WAY THROUGH
2. NUCLEAR ENERGY: THE INEVITABLE
SOURCE OF ENERGY TO RELY UPON
1.Dwindling resources of fossil fuel
2.Very high cost
3.The greenhouse effect
3. INDIA’S QUEST FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY
Currently, only 40 per cent of the rural area in India is covered by
electricity. Our current capacity to produce electricity is 131 Gigawatts
(GW) a year, and judging by the eight per cent growth in our economy
and current lack of power, we would need approximately 800-950 GW by
2030. We are more or less dependent on thermal power as of now, with
around 65 per cent (87 GW) of our current production fulfilled by thermal
power, but coal is also depleting fast and we would need an alternative
source of energy by 2025.
Currently, India only adds about 30-35 GW a year which is half of the planned
amount.
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5. HER IMPACT BEING A NUCLEAR POWER
1. INDIA’S RELUCTANCY TO SIGN CTBT
2. HER SELF DEPENDENCY
3. HER GROWING ECONOMY
4. PURELY INDIGENOUS MILLITARY PROGRAMME
7. THE CATASTROPHE: THE
NUCLEAR DEAL AND THE 1-2-3
AGREEMENT
1. WHAT IS THE 1-2-3 AGREEMENT?
2. WHAT THE U.S. IS OFFERING EXCEPTIONALLY TO INDIA?
3. FORMS THE BASIS OF NUCLEAR DEAL
4. THE NUCLEAR DEAL
8. THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Following are the key aspects of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal:
* The agreement not to hinder or interfere with India's nuclear programme for
military purposes.
* US will help India negotiate with the IAEA for an India-specific fuel supply
agreement.
* Washington will support New Delhi develop strategic reserves of nuclear fuel
to guard against future disruption of supply.
* In case of disruption, US and India will jointly convene a group of friendly
supplier countries to include nations like Russia, France and the UK to pursue
such measures to restore fuel supply.
* Both the countries agree to facilitate nuclear trade between themselves in the
interest of respective industries and consumers.
* India and the US agree to transfer nuclear material, non-nuclear material,
equipment and components.
9. THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS (cotd.)
* Any special fissionable material transferred under the agreement shall be low
enriched uranium.
* Low enriched uranium can be transfered for use as fuel in reactor experiments
and in reactors for conversion or fabrication.
* The ambit of the deal include research, development, design, construction,
operation, maintenance and use of nuclear reactors, reactor experiments and
decommissioning.
* The US will have the right to seek return of nuclear fuel and technology but it
will compensate for the costs incurred as a consequence of such removal.
* India can develop strategic reserve of nuclear fuel to guard against any
disruption of supply over the lifetime of its reactors.
* Agreement provides for consultations on the circumstances, including
changed security environment, before termination of the nuclear cooperation.
* Provision for one-year notice period before termination of the agreement.
10. THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS (cotd.)
* The US will have the right to seek return of nuclear fuel and technology.
* In case of return, Washington will compensate New Delhi promptly for the
"fair market value thereof" and the costs incurred as a consequence of
such removal.
* Both the countries to set up a Joint Committee for implementation of the
civil nuclear agreement and development of further cooperation in this field.
* The agreement grants prior consent to reprocess spent fuel.
* Sensitive nuclear technology, nuclear facilities and major critical
components can be transferred after amendment to the agreement.
* India will establish a new national facility dedicated to reprocessing
safeguarded nuclear material under IAEA safeguards.
* Nuclear material and equipment transferred to India by the US be subject
to safeguards in perpetuity.
11. ADVANTAGES
1. NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY
2. MAKE USE OF THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE
3. AMEND POWER SHORTAGE
4. CAN BE A BOOST FOR GROWING ECONOMY
5. WILL ENJOY A STATUS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS STAT
6. WOULD BE CLOSER TO GETTING A PERMANENT
MEMBERSHIP FROM U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL
12. U.S. INTERVENETION AND AREAS
OF INTEREST
SURROUNDING THE DEAL
1. WELL AWARE OF INDIA’S POTENTIAL
2. INDIA’S FAST GROWING ECONOMY
3. THE CHINA FACTOR
4. INDIA’S CLEAN IMAGE ON THE GLOBAL MINDSET
5. HER UTTER IMPORTANCE IN ASIA
13. WHY SO DESPERATION
1. POST AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, AMERICA’S DWINDLING ECONOMY
2. AN IMPOSED THREAT BY ECONOMICALLY VIOLANT CHINA
3. AN EFFORT TO CLEAN ITS IMAGE AFTER RECEIVING FIERCE CRITICSM
OF THE IRAQ INVASION
4. FURTHER ENHANCE ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH INDIA, THE CENTRESTAG
ASIA’S EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
14. POLITICAL DIVERSION OVER THE DEAL:
PROVIDING STUBBORN RESISTANCE
1. LEFT’S RELUCTANCY TO ZERO IN ON A PEACEFUL
AGREEMENT WITH THE CENTRE GOVT.
2. BJP’s INSANE POLICY OF PROVIDING NO SUPPORT
WHATSOEVER
3. BSP’s USELESS ANTICIPATION OF THE CENTRE GOVT.
4. PRIME MINISTER’S THEORY OF NOT SPILLING THE
BEANS
15. WORRIES
1. PRICE AMOUNTING TO THE SKY
2. A TITHER TO CHINA
3. NUCLEAR WASTE: A GREAT AND RISKY MESS TO DEAL WIT
4. A HIT BACK TO THE SELF DEFENSE
5. INDIA’S IMAGE REDUCING TO A MERE STOOGE IN FRONT O
U.S.
16. THE RIGHT WAY
THROUGH
1. THE GOVT. SHOULD DEDUCE A RIGHT AGREEMENT THAT GETS DOW
EVERYONE’S THROAT
2. INDIA SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO TEST NUKE WEAPONS IN THE
WAGE OF SELF DEFENSE
3. IT SHOULD HAVE FULL ACCESS TO ALL ITS POWERPLANTS WHETHER
BE SUPERVISED BY IAEA OR NOT
4. IT SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPORT SURPLUS FUEL
5. U.S. SHOULD ALSO BEHOLD SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROPER RE
OF WASTE NUKE MATERIAL
6. THE COST SHOULD BE AS PER THE CURRENT PRICES OF THE FUEL
7. THERE SHOULD BE NO HIDDEN TERMS AND CONDITIONS
