My VOTE FOR the Nuclear Deal!
Posted by தம்புரா on July 9, 2008
There is nothing more important for the 400 million middle-class people in India than relief from daily power outages. They are not alone in their anger. Industrialists, farmers and other low-income groups also support them.
Unless the power crisis is overcome, the overall national economic growth will end weak, making India’s failure China’s gain, and causing China to become an even greater darling of the world.
இந்த dealing எனக்கு பிடிச்சிருக்கு:
* No interference in India ’s nuclear programme for military purposes.
* US will help India negotiate with the IAEA for an India-specific fuel supply agreement and develop strategic reserves of nuclear fuel to guard against future disruption of supply.
* Facilitate nuclear trade and to transfer Sensitive nuclear technology, nuclear material(low enriched uranium), non-nuclear material, equipment and major critical components.
* Include research, development, design, construction, operation, maintenance and use of nuclear reactors, reactor experiments and decommissioning.
* India would obtain full access to the international fuel market and will establish a new national facility dedicated to reprocessing safeguarded nuclear material
* 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. * Consultations on the circumstances, including changed security environment, before termination of the nuclear cooperation.
Selva Ganapathy said
I really didn’t imagine that you will be writing about Nuclear Deal etc., but as you’ve writing and that to as a pro-nuclear deal types of content… then here my friend I have a few points to say.
While Indian government is likely to go ahead with Indo US Nuclear Deal for ‘civic’ nuclear options, ignoring the fact that there is no safe way to dispose nuclear waste in the world, below is a news from Rediff/ Indukant Dixit informing us of the radioactive uranium which in underground water in Varanasi.
Varanasi is close to India’s nuclear waste dumping site (Jadugoda), and may be, it is because of years of dumping radioactive Uranium in Jadugoda that the underground water in Varanasi has traces of radioactivity. Read the news at http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/13water.htm
would also recommend you reading this http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/intengpol.pdf
also
The Indo-US Nuclear Deal is patently anti-people, will make India a strategic ally of American Imperialism in South Asia to impose its hegemony over Asia. The Deal also negates the concrete achievements gained by the International and national peace movements for disarmament and Nuclear-free World. After the example of the ruthless genocide, devastation and occupation of Iraq before us, we feel that the Indo-US Nuclear Deal will become an instrument for ruthlessly imposing the neo-liberal economic agenda and pliant regimes over the impoverished people of the Third World and further tightening the hold through the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, US Imperialism will have a firm grip over the governments of the independent nation-states of India and Asia. This makes a mockery of the cherished values of equal and democratic world order and the aspirations of the national liberation struggles including the whole spirit of decolonization.
The Indo-US Nuclear Deal is an outrageous instrument of recolonization of India and Third World. The Deal, as and when comes through will, grievously undermine the current global; regime of nuclear non-proliferation, as it is meant to make an unique exception in case of India, in gross violation of underlying principles of the International peace, workers, environment and women’s movements.
The fact that Pakistan has been brusquely refused a similar deal by the US in spite of persistent clamouring, and Iran is being demonstratively coerced to desist from developing its own nuclear power production allowed and encouraged under article IV of the NPT which further brings out graphically the abominable discriminatory nature of the Deal. The deal is likely to trigger a stepped up vertical and horizontal proliferations all over Asia. This goes against our commitment of Nuclear-free Asia and World. by enabling India to import fuel natural or enriched Uranium, from abroad the ‘Deal’ would make it possible for India to use the indigenously produced Uranium exclusively for bomb making. This possible escalation in its fissile material production capacity, in all likelihood, it will push Pakistan further to nuclearise even at great cost, and thereby aggravate tensions and accelerate the arms race in the region with horrifying consequences. The arms race will divert resources of the country away from development so desperately required by the toiling masses to overcome their current poverty.
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I am not against development but it should not be at the cost of lives.
esoxecausa said
Brilliant!