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abhischekcc,

Who cares what happens to Oirope, as long as it doesn't impact India? Unfortunately, it does. Before global warming leads to an European ice age, it would flood half of Mumbai and other low-lying Indian coastland. Global warming is a global monster that impacts all.

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Sanku, Even before you joined BRF, I had clarified this with Arun_S. You can refer to a couple of threads back to get a better perspective on the discussion for the 3-stage cycle. As for my assumptions on kick-starting the 3-stage program being wrong, care to elucidate what your assumptions are and ...

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Ldev and N^3 (& many others) have already done a great job of explaining the future power requirements & how N-power contributes to the mix. I find the scenarios & numbers very, very sensible and achievable. Hats off to you folks. IMHO, the major hinderance for a closed loop cycle has be...

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Interesting read.. Chinese show more colours.. & see why commies are opposing the deal.. View from China: India seeking 'big power' status through N-deal In a second salvo within a fortnight against the India-United States civilian nuclear deal, a leading official Chinese newspaper has accused N...

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How is it possible? India/PRC can lessen the need for gas with alternate energy source, but is there any substitute for gasoline yet? What is the share of ME OIL(19 bbd) in the global supply. Acharya, I don't have the exact ME breakdown, but OPEC seems to get about 37 out of 49 bbds for '05. So I w...

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Acharya wrote: The large OIL consumers are going to be weeded out of dependency of ME.

How is it possible? India/PRC can lessen the need for gas with alternate energy source, but is there any substitute for gasoline yet?

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abhischekcc, As I said, there are ways & means to address depletion of scarce resources. The threat of misuse should not stop us from improving our infrastructure for betterment of people. That's what I wanted to bring out. Proper identification & control would go a long way, but they prob a...

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N-power is not the magic wand for India's energy woes; but it is certainly one of the best and cleanest alternatives. The only other decent alternative is building massive hydro-elec. dams (I don't consider existing or potential renewable avenues as addressing power gaps for future power needs, unle...

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Samuel, The 65:35 % breakdown is for the existing setup only; i.e. 14 & 8 out of 22 (existing & upcoming combined) would be civ & mil respectively. The fast-breeder component of a civilian 3-stage program has therefore effectively been sold-out under the inspection raj or condemned to re...

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pray what is the intent and reason for Hyde act, kinda thick skinned ( at very high level no need to read clause by clause) NPAs and the old-school warriors probably thought, they can get away with putting 'poison pills'. Any capitulation by India on any points would have been a bonus to these grou...

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ramana wrote:Mulford will get recalled.

Is this a wish?

He has an uncanny habit of being so darn irritating!!

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NR, I won't lose sleep over it.. Ain't it US motto that "if there is a law, it can be broken"? India also has to master the political skullduggery played at this level. At this level, it is so much interpretation (fuzzy logic) than binary logic that everyone else practices at the high tabl...

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See, how the smartest poodle (or rat) jumped ship.. This is called 'jidhar baris, udhar chatri'.. For uninformed, Oz knows which side of their bread is buttered... Australia to back India at NSG In a significant development, Australia on Tuesday promised to support the Indo-US civil nuclear deal in ...

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Deal silent on N-test::By Seema Mustafa When statements are passed like this... India has given up its right to test and has accepted safeguards in perpetuity..... all future breeder reactors will come under safeguards Does not reflect too well on DDM. It is upto DAE/ GoI to decide if future FBRs w...

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ShauryaT: 4. To halt, to roll back, and eventually eliminate Ramana: 3. India with its voluntary morotarium has abided by the CTBT same as the P-5. The option for the US to impose sanction is already there under the various three and four letter acts and treaties. Never understood why Hyde had to st...

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Ramana, Can US realistically clean up the ME mess in the near future? Iraq & Afganistan mess are only getting worse. Both the bear and lizard are in the upswing and have lots of leverage to cause mischief. From Indian pov, with the recent gas discoveries and the probability of 3 stage program be...

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ShauryaT, We both are batting for the same team. The difference seems to be if a particular approach is Ok for the long-term well-being. Now we know that NDA did try for a similar deal, then the half- and qtr-brights botched it. It is clear that J18 is not fully adhered to in the draft 123 and I als...

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Who is this we? GoI of the government of the United Progressive Alliance, an alliance in power due to communists. Is a formal cap and/or rollback is the only "rekha"? ShaurayT, I am not a spokesperson for GoI or UPA. I am trying to look at what is beneficial to us Indians. I thought, you ...

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The linked Rediff article claims, India got the same rights as nuclear weapon states - I am simply aghast that after all this, starting with the different interpretations of J18, M2 (perpetual safeguards), and now 123, which seems to limit reprocessing to 20% enrichment levels - same as allowed for...

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How come folks haven't posted this? Some more tidbits of 123!!! I had predicted the red herrings couple of threads back.. Feels good to know that our babus managed the negotiations so well. Just have to see the devil in the details as to what exactly are we giving up.. 'India has got same rights as ...

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SaiK, Thanks. I didn't remember reading 't Obama's interest in FBR. Will try to find more on it. Agreed that it is OUR stock and we can do whatever we want, but I assume we didn't reprocess that stock because of the perception that it will violate the treaty. With this agreement, what happens to the...

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We have to expend technology both into civil and military requirements, that I think the civilian (ours) will mostly be the FBRs that would be dedicated to nation, within the IAEA monitored facilities. ... Already Obama wants India reprocessing and spent fuel storage technology, that we have master...

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My hope is that the existing stocks are not to be treated similar to NSG sourced fuel. Hopefully there is some clause which allows to reprocess this in our existing facilities. Our existing stocks are our own, their utilization sole preserve of GoI/ DAE. IAEA/ US/ NSG don't have anything to do with...

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I would assume that DAE would not settle for anything less than a blanket approval for reproc. Now let us assume that below is true: Strategic expert Brahma Chellaney pointed out that India, again according to the leaked reports, has been unable to secure "an unhindered right to reprocess spent...

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Acharya,
Can you please shade more light on this bigger game plan? Most people, including me think this is to do with ME and approaching deadlines for neocons. But why/ how would India agree to US designs there? Any kind of destabilization/ oil price spikes would hit US/ Indian economies alike.

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Shankar, Please try to understand the gist of what 123 entails. The threat of sanctions was always there, 123 or no 123. Without 123, there was no fuel for the civ reactors. With 123, we can now get N-fuel and/ or dual-use components (depends on NSG guidelines) directly for the 1st and 3rd stage civ...

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Another question will arise, say how do we see if the spent fuel Pus are actually from NSG fuel supply or homegrown in the future. Lets say, Th232->U233+Pu->..actinides cross chain reaction (if possible and worked out by our chiefs at barc. Alok N would have thrashed this}, that should lead to U235...

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Deal is sealed Great article, Sraj. First article with serious insight of the deal (I hope, w/o DDM spin). JMTs, it addresses all serious deal-breakers from Indian pov. If this is what the actual deal is, then hats off to AK & his team. They would be remembered in annals of Indian history for p...

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Deleted.. Sorry, it was a double post.

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Arun_S, Thanks.. So US-defined intl supervision is nothing, but IAEA safeguards + IP stealing + reverse engineering + some more... Folks, I see a lot of breast-beating and doomsday prognosis going around. While I share most of the concerns w.r.t. the current ruling setup and pro-US babus, who negoti...

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We're not talking small peanuts here. India staying out of the GNEP tent automatically constrains the entire future profit stream to be had by a new energy cartel. GNEP is based on the premise of once-thru processing for the client states and Unkil is trying to rope in Russia (and ultimately P5) to...

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THis deal is actually a geopolitical alignment and hence Cheney is in to make sure that it proceeds. Read the article by Robert Kaplan. The world is in a flux and new alignment will take place after the concerns of the major countries are taken care of. Partnership & alignment is good & dan...

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From history we know that Cheney doesn't get involved, unless it is a very high stakes game. One quid-pro-quo would be MRCA pie as well as reactors.. But would he take on the bloodhounds (oops, NPAs) in the process? Aren't they the pet dogs of the old school types & war mongers, whose cause Chen...

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Really good news, if Chenney can help sway the deal. But why would he spend his political capital here rather than ME issues is the mn $ Q here. Cheney comes to the rescue of Indo-US N-deal Aziz Haniffa in Washington, DC | July 20, 2007 00:30 IST After more than two-and-a-half days of intense negoti...

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NRao wrote:But Alok also should want to "come back". Did you check with him?

Same goes for GJMan.

You mean, they don't miss the love and affection of all BRfites?

What blasphemy is this?

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I third Arun_S & Mort. Bradmins should get together & resolve the issue to get Alok (& if possible, GJ Man) back.. Their presence has been missing so sorely!!!

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ToI spins (DDM?) that both GoI & USG feel that it is impractical to revisit HA.. What hogwash is this? How the hell do you get around to a 123 ~ J18, when USG says, 123 can only be from HA.. Let's wait & see. Rice and pasta hasten N-deal Guarded comments to TOI by key officials suggested the...

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Surprised, this piece from Bhadrakumar has not been posted so far. Q to gurus, how realistically the US-Ru agrement has an impact on J18 :?: After all, J18 and GNEP have both been public knowledge for quite some time and both are independent (unless it is similar to the cr@p about HA/ legislation pa...

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Some more tidbits on the same article from hindustantimes.com . Look at the enormity of the task at hand.. The sooner our 3-stage, closed-loop cycle takes over, the better. Godspeed!!! India is the fourth largest electricity producing country in the world but the capita energy consumption is half of...

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Some not so flattering findings.. Afghan prison bodies discovered An underground prison containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in Afghanistan. The prison, a former military barracks on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, dates from the Soviet occupation of the 1980s, officials say. A sen...

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