Singur Flares Up Once again as Kolkata Indulged in carnival
Palash Biswas
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Self-appointed publicists like to believe India has moved into the modern age. Sensex shining India is all out to destroy Rural india, the Bharat Varsh. A new Americanised NRI nationality has taken over and everything indigenous is uprooted mercilessly. Killingfields escalate and peoples resistance is answered with Boots and guns of Absolute Statepower representing Zionist Brahminical White supremacy. The controversy surrounding a small car plant of Tata Motors at Singur does not seem to die down, with about 200 farmers from Baraberi and Bajemelia villages attempted to break into the acquired land for the manufacturing plant on Friday, triggering a fresh violence. Like the seemingly contradictory variedness of life in India, so too the responses of villagers threatened by industrialisation reflect almost the entire gamut of consciousness. In Orissa, over the weekend, three POSCO officials, all Koreans, were kidnapped and later released in a grim and perhaps hopeless replay of bravado. After the incident, the Korean steel major, setting up a $12-billion plant near the Paradip Port, issued an angry statement for the first time after k eeping silent over the previous four such incidents. Across the country in Maharashtra, four villagers near Pune who had violently protested the proposed SEZ by Videocon experienced a leap of faith. They have now sought the revocation of the SEZ and the de-notification of 5,000 acres of acquired land that they insist they would like to develop themselves. Instead of learning from the inert receptiveness of farmers happy with a lumpsum payment or from the violent rejection of land sale as in Nandigram, the farmers of the four villages found their inspiration in Magarpatta City, the hugely successful township created and run by the Magar farming community in the Hadapsar suburb of Pune.
Darkness prevails in Rural Bengal as Puja Carnival, the Hegemony festival gets momentum on Mahastami.Though a light shower in the afternoon threatened to dampen the festive spirit, the sun reappeared soon after, bringing a sigh of relief for one and all. The city has suddenly been transformed into a place of light and sound as Durga Puja is back after a year-long wait. Devotees on Friday thronged puja pandals across the state to offer obeisance to Goddess Durga as part of the auspicious Mahastami day, the second of the four-day festivalBig corporates are pumping in crores this festive season after all banners at key spots is the best way to get consumer attention. Organisers say the money from corporate sponsors is the major chunk for the pandals and the rest of it comes from membership and contributions.And there's another way the sponsorship is coming — the local channels tie up with pandals for live telecast of the puja. In fact, the price can go upto 15 lakhs as it has for one of the most popular pandals.. Durga Puja now seems to be an event more for advertisers than devotees. Meanwhile,Residents of Sagar Island on Tuesday joined hands with Greenpeace to begin a massive mangrove planting drive. Nearly 8,000 saplings were planted on Monday and Tuesday. With sky clearing up after showers considerably dampened celebrations on Thursday, revellers chanted hymns of the Goddess as lakhs of people from near and afar made a beeline at pandals to offer anjali (prayer). The whole city virtually turned into a walk-in art gallery as colourfully illuminated pandals , housing idols of the Goddess, invoked the spirit of merriment. Each pandal is a tribute to the consummate skill of the artisans and artistry -- both in terms of innovation in pandal -making and lighting.
At Belur Math on the banks of Ganga in neighbouring Howrah district, 'Kumari Puja' was held as per the custom -- started by Ramakrishna Paramahansha in the late 19th century. The puja , offered to a young girl as the mother Goddess by the Ramakrishna Mission monks, was watched by thousands of devotees at the Math before partaking of the mahaprasad . People spent time with friends and relatives during the day and visited award-winning pandals like the Suruchi Sangha in New Alipore and Badamtala in the south of the city. The euphoria that sets in during the four-day carnival that is the Durga Puja brings both a resurgence of economy and faith in this otherwise beleaguered city. For the days that Durga is worshipped, Kolkata is transformed into a city enchanted.Faith and economy are inexorably linked together with the Durga Puja. The commercialization of the Puja in West Bengal began in a big way in the 1960’s. Businessmen, from the industrialist to the hawker, saw in this annual event an opportunity to mint money. The community Puja dates back to the 19th century. But the Durga Puja in its essence started earlier around 1610, in the homes of zamindars. What later came to be known as community pujas were started by zamindars in a competitive mood. They called them “Barwaris” derived from Baro Yar or 12 friends, who were essentially sycophants of the zamindar. Over the years the “Barwari Puja” has undergone subtle changes of form but the spirit remains the same. What has, however, really changed, is its economics.Over the years the potential of the Durga Puja was explored by merchants. Today the Pujas mean a massive carnival, sending fiscal waves across the country. The money generated during this festival in West Bengal flows into different States and runs into several crores of rupees, precisely how many no one has attempted to calculate.
After their repeated requests to the farmers to disperse went in vain, police resorted to firing teargas shells and also lathicharged the crowd fearing the situation might get out of control.Accusing the government of illegally acquiring the land through excessive force, the farmers said they wanted to offer prayers at their lands on the occasion of mahaashtami at the ongoing Navaratra festival.The farmers said they were working peacefully on the land surrounding the Tata factory and police instigated them by charging at them with batons.
"Today was ashtami so we came here to offer prayers. But the police harassed us. In the police offensive, my daughter was hit on the head while I was hurt on legs", said Prashant Kumar Singha, a local farmer.
Tata Motors started work on its factory in Singur earlier this year on what is touted as the world's cheapest car for 100,000 rupees.
But the project, which has become a test case for the ruling Communists party in West Bengal, has been mired in controversy with some farmers declaring that the government took their land against their will.There have been regular protests in West Bengal this year over the acquisition of agriculture land for industry.
On the other hand, TCS and Singapore-based realty major Ascendas are among the 14 SEZ proposals cleared by the government on Frioday while a decision on DLF and Unitech Hitech projects in Noida was deferred. Formal clearance for 10 proposals and in-principle nod to three applicants were given by the Board of Approvals chaired by Commerce Secretary G K Pillai, taking the total number of formal approvals to 395. This is the first decision on SEZs after the Union Cabinet had cleared the Resettlement and Rehabilitation policy on October 11, making the process of land acquisition transparent and easy for the promoters.
"Of the SEZs given formal approval, 156 have been notified and an investment of Rs 50,906 crores has already taken place in these zones," Pillai said. He said a decision on DLF and Unitech Hitech was deferred since the promoters did not have land in possession.
Formal approval was given to TCS to set up an IT zone in West Bengal and Ascendas received in-principle clearance for electronics and multi-product SEZs in Tamil Nadu.
The BoA cleared Perfect IT SEZ's proposal for a 10 hectare IT and ITeS zone in Noida. Adani Group's 1,000 hectare multi-product zone at Mundra in Gujarat was also given a go-ahead.
The other proposals that were formally cleared include Saloni Business Park's 27.24 hectare biotechnology park in Maharashtra as well as a 14.77 hectare electronic hardware and IT zone in Raigad, proposed by Modern India Property Developers.
Privilege Power and Infrastructure Ltd's 2,245 hectare multi-product zone in Maharashtra was given in-principle nod.
The recent Supreme Court ban on acquisition of “good agricultural land” has sent ripples through the far-flung villages of Beraberi, Bajemelia and Khasherberi, where large tracts of agricultural land have been acquired to make way for the Tata small car factory.
The SC verdict, which stated that governments should not acquire land for a private company under the guise of public purpose, came in handy for Krishi Jami Raksha Committee (KJRC) that took out a rally on Thursday at Beraberi Purbapara to whip up sentiments against the state government.
Tata Motors officials have taken care to assuage feelings by flagging off its initiative to support the cause of primary and secondary school education in Singur. On Thursday, the company provided desks, benches, chairs, tables, cupboards and electrical fittings in addition to educational and sports materials to a primary school at Ruidaspara in Beraberi.
KJRC though was not bothered by this. On Thursday, its convener Becharam Manna was back in Singur, telling the villagers that the KJRC stand had been vindicated by none other than the Supreme Court. So, he wants the government to return agricultural land at Bajemelia, Beraberi and Khasherberi .
“The government has acquired fertile plots under the guise of public purpose. I am not talking of areas such as Joymollah where the land is not fertile, but the SC verdict holds true for vast stretches of Gopalnagar, Beraberi and Khaserberi, which have small and marginal farmers,” said Manik Das, a marginal farmer from Gopalnagar.
Dibakar Das of CPM-backed Pragatishil Shechchhaye Jami Bikreta Shilpa Sthapan Committee, said: "The state has not acquired vast stretches of rich agricultural land."
The recent policy on resettlement and rehabilitation of the potentially displaced adds a splash of novelty to the old package of compensation and little else. The proposal to include a choice of compensation through shares worth 20 per cent of the land value will make the farmer as much a stakeholder in the project as the old Integrated Rural Development Programme turned landless labourers into poultry farmers with the offer of a pig or cow. And in any case, how much less of a fraud would the volatile equity be on the farmer selling his land than an outright grab?
The new policy on resettlement and rehabilitation now endorsed by the Cabinet is like a Band-Aid for a patient racked with a virulent fever. For decades, successive governments have had to tackle the problem of displacement by public sector projects, the Sardar Sarovar being the most prominent. Precisely because of its star-studded opponents, the issue of displacement riding on the back of a larger issue of land for non-farm activity remained hidden from public view. The question of empowering displaced persons with options was not even considered.
With the rapid growth in industrial output over the past few years and the growth in incremental investments that accompanied the pick-up in output slack over the past four years of rapid growth, the vulnerability of displacement through land acquisition surfaced from the deep, of all places most violently in Nandigram in west Bengal.
Complacent State governments and an even more smug Commerce and Industry Ministry simply assumed that once capital was assured with the promise of tax privileges, the Special Economic Zone would become the economy’s special purpose vehicle, racing it along to a ten per cent growth and full employment.
Mangrove trees have a proven anti-soil erosion ability and are extremely effective in preventing cyclonic disasters. During the supercyclone that hit Orissa in 1999 and flattened nine districts, Kendrapara suffered the least because of its mangrove jungle. Despite being close to the eye of the cyclone, the death toll in Kendrapara was 10 times less than other districts.
The latest initiative in the Sunderbans, led by Sugata Hazra from the School of Oceanography at Jadavapur University, aims to arrest the rate of coastal erosion in these endangered islands as a result of global warming. An unprecedented rise in sea level has already submerged some islands in the Sunderbans.
Earlier on Monday, Greenpeace had organised an awareness campaign at Gangasagar. Over 10,000 residents, many of them schoolchildren, voiced their demand for immediate action globally to tackle climate change which impacts their daily lives. Greenpeace flagship Rainbow is currently in the Sunderbans en route to Bali.
According to the findings from the report of ‘Vulnerability assessment of the Sunderbans island system in the perspective of climate change’ by Hazra, the vulnerability of the Sunderbans to climate impacts is very high in comparison to other coastal areas of India. Over 70,000 people from the Sunderbans are under the risk of losing their habitat permanently due to sea level rise, increased cyclone intensity and flooding by the year 2030.
"Mangrove planting will arrest the rate of coastal erosion. This is an immediate adaptation measure and the people are taking this collective action for the sake of their lives and livelihoods. However, it is evident that unless large scale measures to stop climate change by means of emission reduction are taken globally, a substantial part of the Sunderbans might disappear from the map," he warned.
Greenpeace Climate and Energy spokesperson Soumyabrata Rahut said the Sunderbans was one of the first climate hot spots in India and would set a precedent for the impacts of sea level rise.
"Increased displacement of people due to loss of habitation and land will increase India's count of climate refugees and add to the burden of poverty under which we are already reeling. At this critical juncture where we only have eight years to act, strong and time bound mitigation measures must accompany measures for adaptation," he said.
Nandigram:State Sponsored Mayhem
By Nilanju Dutta
17 October, 2007
Combat Law
http://www.countercurrents.org/dutta171007.htm
Far removed from Kolkata's hubbub, Nandigram always belonged to the rural backwaters of West Bengal. It needed appendages like East Midnapur district or Haldia Development Authority to be spotted on state's map. Yet all of a sudden it lost its anonymity when it became the centre of peasants' resistance against an attempt by the government to acquire their agricultural land for setting up a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The SEZ controversy started when the West Bengal government decided to set up a chemical hub under the SEZ policy at Nandigram. It led to brutal repression by armed police and CPM cadre who resorted to firing, assault and rape. Villagers narrated what they went through before a people's tribunal on Nandigram that called the violence a 'preplanned, state-sponsored massacre' carried out 'to teach a lesson' to people resisting acquisition of their land for the SEZ project.
On January 7, at around 3 am, the villagers of Nandigram woke up to the sounds of bombs and gunfire coming from the house of a CPM activist. At least five persons were killed in the encounter. In retaliation, the villagers set fire to the CPM camp at Baratole in Khejuri as well as to the house of the CPM activist, Shankar Samanta, who was burnt to death in the incident. The ironical part, though, was that the police and the administrative officials were nowhere on the scene when this violence was taking place and confined themselves to the Nandigram Police Station. In total contrast to this on March 14, 2007 there were thousands of unarmed Nandigram folk- mostly women and children-gathered in the early hours of morning near the Bangabhera bridge to peacefully block any attempts by the state forces to invade their villages. Ranged against them was an about 2,000-strong police contingent along with several hundred armed cadre of the CPM -- some of them allegedly dressed in ill-fitting police uniforms. Without any warning the police began lobbing teargas shells. This blinded the crowd and created panic and commotion. Soon the police and the goons began firing. The violence continued for the next an-hour-and-a-half approsimately. Many complaints of horrific and deliberate violence resorted to by the police were made by the residents before the tribunal in this incident.
The report People's Tribunal on Nandigram brought out by All India Citizens' Initiative is replete with testimonies given by villagers of inhuman and brutal vendetta unleashed by the police, state administration and ruling CPM cadre. The report begins with an introduction giving in details of where and when the Tribunal took place and as to what were the responses of the state authorities. Then it goes on to give a brief summary on the backdrop of Nandigram that led to the violence of March 14, 2007 brutally demolishing the past, present and the future of the victims. The impact of the incident on women and children along with the list of dead, missing and injured persons are categorically brought out in the report. Reading it gives a first hand picture of the actual occurrence of the carnage and its aftermath. The details given show that the slaughter caused by the police firing on the retreating villagers, mainly women and children, was pre-planned. The individual testimonies by the victims show that there was lack of trust or faith in the police or, indeed, in the system since it would tantamount to seeking help from the perpetrators who had tortured them.
Going by the summary one comes to know that the medical help provided to the victims was simply shocking. Victims of rape were not examined for sexual assault and nothing was recorded medically. From the various depositions of the victims, the picture becomes clear that the minimum facilities required in a hospital were missing, no separate facilities for men and women existed and that operations were done under torchlight in the village hospital. Even the medical reports were tampered and several discrepancies came up through the testimonies of the victims. The victims were forcibly discharged with bullets still lodged in their bodies. Therefore, it is quite obvious that there was a link between the police and the district medical and other authorities, all of whom apparently were covering up the true nature, cause, extent and gravity of violence.
The remarkable section of the report, though, is the Findings and Recommendations, the report has within it various observations which are made on the basis of factual evidence along with the numerous depositions of the victims before the tribunal and these recommendations are aimed at relevant state authorities to take up immediate action, particularly in the context of the worsening humanitarian situation on the relief and medical front. The report also goes on to suggest the necessary recommendations that the Tribunal had come up with. A thorough reading of the recommendations shows that they are in fact sensitive and insightful. Efforts have been made for police reforms as well as for the 'establishment of human rights courts to provide justice in the cases of human rights violation that arises from conflicts between state and the people or amongst different political group.' It also suggests, "there should be an immediate end to the economic and physical blockade of the people of Nandigram by the armed CPM men active in the surrounding areas have been preventing the flow of essential supplies as well as safe movement of people in and out of the area."
The report in every possible way highlights the pain, agony, helplessness and the courage of the poor as well as the total lack of respect and profound apathy with which the authorities treat the poor and the helpless of our country
Because most of the victims of this massacre were women who were sexually assaulted and molested and suffered in the most cruel, degrading and inhuman manner, the report also recommended, "the judiciary should consider setting up a special bench, headed by a woman judge, to hear all the cases of rape, molestation and violence against women of Nandigram by both police personnel and armed cadre of the CPM." Along with it the report also emphasises on the appointment of a 'monitoring committee' so as to ensure that there is no repetition of the violence of March 14 suffered by defenceless villagers of Nandigram.
The report in every possible way highlights the pain, agony, helplessness and the courage of the poor as well as the total lack of respect and profound apathy with which the authorities treat the poor and the helpless of our country. No rehabilitation measures have been made available to the victims who suffered such brutal atrocities that fear has been besetting them and loss of hope in future is common among them. There has been deliberate negligence on the part of the administration in not attending to the victims and providing them immediate medical assistance, and relief as per the universal guidelines. The poor seems to be the only ones who are expected to show discipline. The report is noteworthy in the sense that it reflects the voice of the marginalised people who are otherwise neglected and left to face sub-human conditions. Such report gives a little glint of hope as it shows that there are people who want to make the difference and contribute to the struggles of individuals by asking for quick justice, transparency and fair play.
The author is a lawyer, HRLN, Delhi
Nuclear Technology 1960 v/s 2007 © Ravinder Singh
Concerns expressed by a friend appears to be genuine BUT ARE OUTDATED. There is quantum jump in technology since CIRUS or Tarapur reactors were built. Automatic & Remote controls, improved designs and accurate instrumentations had made Nuclear Plant operations safe. Optical Fiber technology has made communication billion times faster and economical. Operators in India can get technical support from Technology Providers on continuous basis. Every big country with high-energy demand have planned big share coming from Nuclear Source.
Commercial Reactors of 9,00,000 MWe rating may come up by 2040. So there is great interest in developing “Third and Fourth Generation Technologies” that are very efficient and cost substantially less. To this inventor Pebble Bed technology may emerge as the most efficient and economical design beating the global leaders like GE, Mitsubishi, AREVA, SIEMENS and Westinghouse etc.
GE introduced ABWR in 1996 but within a decade announced ESBWR that cost substantially less – 30% to 40% less than conventional LWR but 3000 times safer.
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Pebble_bed_ reactor
http://www.pbmr. com/contenthtml/ Annual2007/ pdfs/fullreport. pdf
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ ABWR
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ ESBWR
[A nice operational feature in the ABWR design is electric fine motion control rod drives. Older BWRs use a hydraulic system to move the control rods in six-inch increments. -- The ABWR is fully automated in response to a loss-of-coolant- accident LOCA, and operator action is not required for 3 days. These and other improvements make the plant significantly safer than previous reactors.]
UK- http://www.world- nuclear.org/ info/inf84. html
Japan- http://www.world- nuclear.org/ info/inf79. html
Russia - http://www.world- nuclear.org/ info/inf45. html
China - http://www.world- nuclear.org/ info/inf63. html
Japan the only country to suffer Nuclear Bombs plans to have 60% of its electricity by 2050 from Nuclear Power and use nuclear power to produce Hydrogen to run clean Hydrogen Vehicles.
[Projected nuclear generating capacity in 2050 was 90 GWe. This means doubling both nuclear generating capacity and nuclear share to about 60% of total power produced. In addition, some 20 GW (thermal) of nuclear heat will be utilised for hydrogen production. Hydrogen is expected to supply 10% of consumed energy and 70% of this will come from nuclear plants.]
[By 2006 the government's (Russia) resolve to develop nuclear power had firmed and there were projections of adding 2-3 GWe per year to 2030 in Russia as well as exporting plants to meet world demand for some 300 GWe of new nuclear capacity in that time frame.]
[Additional reactors are planned (China), including some of the world's most advanced, to give a fivefold increase in nuclear capacity to 40 GWe by 2020 and then a further three to fourfold increase to 120-160 GWe by 2030.----- The State Power Grid Corporation expects to supply 3810 billion kWh in 2010 from 852 GWe. Growth is then expected to slow to 2020, when capacity is expected to reach 1330 GWe.]
OLDER Technology;
[The first Magnox power station, Calder Hall, was the world's first commercial nuclear power station. First connection to the grid was on 27 August 1956, and the plant was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 17 October 1956. When the station closed on 31 March 2003, the first reactor had been in use for nearly 47 years. --- In all, 11 power stations totalling 26 units were built in the UK where the design originated.]
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Magnox
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ CANDU
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Nuclear_reactor_ technology
[It should be noted that a nulear explosive involves an uncontrolled chain reaction, and the rate of fission in a reactor is not capable of reaching sufficient levels to trigger a nuclear explosion (even if the fission reactions increased to a point of being out of control, it would melt the reactor assembly rather than form a nuclear explosion).]
CANDU design has side entry of fuel rods that was subjected to leaking and Magnox the first generation reactor didn’t have “Containment Shield”.
CONTAINMENT SHIELD;
You can see in the following that entire Nuclear Reactor is housed under a large reactor dome therefore entirely safe.
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Pressurized_ Water_Reactor
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Image:Reactorves sel.gif
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ European_ Pressurized_ Reactor
I worked in a power plant in Delhi in 1975, more than 15 years after India’s Nuclear Program began and two decades after Calder Hall was commercialized. Four reactors of 40 years “Vintage Are Still Operational”. After a month training CEO of the project entrusted me with the job of procurement. I was thus connected to all sections of the project.
There was no computerization operators relied entirely on their skills. They would ask boiler operators on public announcement system about water level etc and most of the equipments were operated manually on instructions of broadcast to entire unit. Though initially some critical equipment were operated from controller’s room but there was no way to find out the coal carried by conveyors or water pumped by boiler feed water. Operator had to take regular readings of water level to make sure water level in the boiler is within specified in the manual. Boiler feed water pump had to be switched on or off to regulate water supply to boiler. There were no automatic controls.
Covers of bunkers or sprinklers in coal handling plants once worn out were never replaced for they were either imported or the procedure was complicated. Maintenance standards were poor. Coal & ash dust and smoke at many locations were blinding, lighting was poor.
Within a year of working in power station labor engaged in handling coal or ash would get Tuberculosis.
NTPC now run the projects as also private players competently. Companies make excellent profits and can afford to keep the environment clean.
India can adopt these new technology which are much more safer and simpler in design also fully computer controlled.
Only fools think of Atomic Bombs than using nuclear technology for power generation.
Ravinder Singh October06, 2007
Re: Nuclear Power For France & Japan Bombs For India
Posted by: "krishna n"
Thu Oct 4, 2007 5:57 am (PST)
APPARANTLY THE WRITER HAS NOT WORKED IN A NUCLEAR PLANT OR IS AWARE OF THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH IT. AS A PERSON WHO IS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE NUCLEAR FIELD, WE SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM NUCLEAR POWER. NUCLEAR BOMB IS REQUIRED AND FOR THAT WE REQUIRE ONLY PLUTONIUM PRODUCING REACTORS. THE PLUTONIUM HAS TO BE EXTRACTED BEFORE THE URANIUM IS BURNED FULLY DUE TO REASONS OF CONTAMINATION BY OTHER ISOTOPES. THE FEW PARAMETERS ON WHICH WE SHOULD NOT PROCEED WITH NUCLEAR POWER ARE'
THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS REQUIRE HIGHLY TRAINED PERSONNEL TO OPERATE IT. IT TAKES A TWO YEAR TRAINING OF A GRADUATE ENGINEER TO BE AUTHORISED AS A JUNIOUR SHIFT ENGINEER. ROUND THE CLOCK OPERATION THE PLANT REQUIRES THE SUPERVISION OF SENIOR SHIFT ENGINEERS WHO ARE FUTHER CETIFIED BASED ON THE SUCESSFUL EXPERIENCE AND PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR SHIFT ENGINEERS OVER MANY MANY YEARS. ONE SHOULD REMEMBER THATTHE CHERNOBYL HAPPENED BECASUE THERE WERE NO SENIOR SHIFT ENGINEERS ON DUTY TO REACT TO A CRISIS. IN THE SEVENTIES I WAS IN THE PANEL TO SELECT ENGINEERS AND IT WAS FOUND THAT GOOD ENGINEERS DOES NOT APPLY FOR JOBS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY DUE TO POOR SALARY AND DUE TO RADIATION HAZARDS. MOSTLY DAE IS AN EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE FOR BRAMINS FROM SOUTH AND MOST OF THEM ARE NOT GOOD. AS LONG AS DAE IS WITH GOVT. THE SALARIES WILL BE BAD AND GOOD FELLOWS WILL NOT JOIN. ON THIS ASPECT WE SHOULD NOT PROCEED FURTHER ON THE NUCLEAR POWER.
NEXT POINT IS THE RADIATION HAZARD. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN STAFF FROM ALL OVER DAE WERE SENT TO TAPS TO DO REPAIR AS THE AMERICAN SUPPLIED REACTOR PLANT HAS BECOME A RADIATION BOMB. BOSSES FROM ALL OVER THE DAE ESTABLISHMENTS SENT PERSONS WHOM THEY WANT TO PUNISH FOR DOING THE REPAIR WORK IN THE PLANT. MANY RADIATION RELATED DEATHS OCCURED AND NOT KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC.
WHEN THE CIRUS REACTOR STARTED IN THE SIXTIES THERE WAS A CONTAINMENT DOME, BUT THERE WERE NO SYSTEM TO SCRUB THE RADIOACTIVITY IN THE CONTAINMENT IN CASE OF A MAXIMUM CREDIBLE ACCIDENT. THAT WAS INSTALLED SOME TWO DECADES LATER. SO THE WHOLE OF BOMBAY IS UNDER THREAT AND NO ONE TOLD IT OUTSIDE. FREQUENT FAILURE OF HEPA FILTERS THAT FILTER THE EXHAUST AIR OF CIRUS AT TROMBAY FAILED AND NO ONE IS AWARE OF IT. SO ALSO HIGHLY CONTAMINATED COOLANT WAS SIMPLY PUMPED IN TO THE TROMBAY CREAK AFTER EVERY SPLIT ROD INCIDENT IN CIRUS. MANY OF THE REACTORS ARE NOT DESIGNED TO STAND THE EARTHQUAKE OF THE LOCATION. NAPP IS AN EXAMPLE. TSUNAMI WAS NOT HEARD DURING THE DESIGN OF THE FAST BREEDER REACTOR AT KALPAKKAM.
ANOTHER REASON WHY WE SHOULD NOT PROCEED WITH NUCLEAR POWER IS THE MUSLIM TERRORISM. THERE IS NO PROTECTION AGAINST THE SUICIDE MUSLIM BOMBER SQUAD FOR ANY OF THE NUCLEAR PLANTS AND THE WHOLE AREAS COULD BE LIKE CHERNOBYL AFTER AN ATTACK.
THE COSTOF POWER PRODUCTION IS NOT ONLY FIVE TIMES HIGHER, BUT AFTER THE PLANT LIFE IS OVER, IT COULD STILL BE A MOST HAZARDOUS PLACE TO BE PROTECTED AS ANY ATTACK ON IT COULD LAID TO WASTE THE WHOLE AREA.. WE DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO STORE THE WASTES FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS.
THIS LIST COULD GO ON. BUT THE FACT THAT AFTER THE THREE MILE ISLAND ACCIDENT THE US STOPPED CONSTRUCTING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. ALSO THERE IS ONLY ONE PLANT THAT IS PROCTECTED IN THE WORLD AND THAT IS A RUSSIAN REACTOR THAT IS UNDERGROUND. VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE NUCLEAR POWER IS BLOGGED BY ME OVER THE YEARS AND I CONSIDER OUR NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH US IS A TREACHERY BY THE CIA AGENT MANMOHAN WHO PERMITTED THE BANK BCCI THAT WAS FUNDING PAKI NUCLEAR PROGRAMME AND TERRORISM FOR ISI AND THE DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING FOR CIA, IN 1983 WHILE HE WAS THE RBI GOVERNOR AGAINST RAW ADVICE.
I HAD NEGOTIATED A NUCLEAR FUEL AGREEMENT AND DRAFTED THE AGREEMENT WHICH WAS SIGNED BY OUR GOVERNMENT, AND THE PRESENT AGREEMENT VIOLATES ALL STANDARD NORMS FOR SUCH A DOCUMENT.
THE PLANT AND GRASS CONVERT THE SOLAR ENERGY WITH AN EFFICIENCY OF ONE PERCENT AND THAT IS THE BEST OPTION FOR US. WE CAN ALSO GO ON A MASSIVE SCALE FOR SOLAR POWER, WIND POWER AND WAVE POWER. WE CAN ALSO USE OUR COAL FOR POWER PRODUCTION.
