somnath wrote:
What ##%#...Imported LWRs are required precisely because we have no indigeneous expertise in building LWRs! some of our uber nationalists described those as snake oil!
Imported LWRs are not required, and foaming at the mouth is not going to change that.
Just as our PHWR programme is a derivative of the CANDU reactors, our local LWR (a programme is now underway) will derive inspiration from the imported reactors..Which is exactly what the nuke deal enables...
Brilliant, so after 50 years, in a totally different set up you want to tell us that Indians cant make LWRs if they so chose and expect to be belived?
Wow. Just wow.
Importing CANDU 60 years ago == importing LWRs now.
WOWWWWWW
Supply of fuel is always tied to supply of the reactor..
Why, because some mai baap sarkar in some western country decreed that?
Is the supply of uranium linked to supply of reactors for China?
Castrating one self has become a virtue now?
again, our focus on getting foriegn ENR tech is also to have a peek into what others do, so that our Ratnahalli complex can benefit out of it...Again, something that the nuke deal has enabled!
And what is not happening.
Our patriots have a strange POV - first describe the nuke deal as a "sellout", and then complain that India isnt "indigeneously" making a bunch of stuff that the nuke deal itself is aimed to enable
That's a lie, to put it charitably,
the patriots are complaining quite something else, which is that despite having the capability of doing well, the Indian effort is being subverted and other players are being given a chance.
negi wrote:
The current "feeling" in the establishment seems to be that we dont need any imported ENR - Srikumar Bannerjee said that in an interview...In any case, in our 3 stage plan, U-enrichment isnt a key variable....But if required, we can always get it along with the reactor - as the belaboured French hastily confirmed!
Yeah war is peace.