Deficiency in the country is 50,000-60,000 MW
Despite apprehensions expressed by some members of the Rajya Sabha, the government on Thursday stressed the priority it accords to nuclear power projects, including at Kundankulam in Tamil Nadu, saying nuclear energy was “clean and safe” and that many countries were relying on it.
“Unless we develop nuclear energy, we will not be able to meet the deficiency of 50,000-60,000 MW in the country. Coal energy is not clean and the quantum of wind and solar energy is negligible. We require nuclear energy, which is clean and safe, to supplement coal energy,'' Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V. Narayanasamy said during question hour.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who holds the portfolio of Atomic Energy, was present.
Responding to a supplementary why the government was pursuing nuclear energy when other countries were abandoning it, the Minister said France, the United States and Russia had produced nuclear power in a big way, while China recently signed an agreement with Pakistan to support its programme. Japan and South Korea were also producing nuclear energy to meet their growing demand
Kudankulam agitation
Replying to a question about the public agitation against the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Mr. Narayanasamy said the project was located on barren land. Therefore, the question of uprooting people from there did not arise.
“The agitation by a section of people started about three months ago, due to safety apprehensions following the Fukushima (Japan) incident, and campaigns by groups ideologically opposed to nuclear power.'' Efforts to enhance “public outreach and communication” were continuing.
Asked whether the government was considering any fuel switch to allay apprehensions of the local population, he replied in the negative.
On addressing developmental needs in the vicinity of nuclear or thermal projects, Mr. Narayanasamy said the government had a “corporate social responsibility” towards people. “As far as the Kundankulam plant is concerned, we have built roads, school and hospital.”
There are severeal educated experts who are insisting that nuclear power is very risky and hence we must plan to increase alternate energy sources like lignite,coal,oil,natural gas,hydro-power,solar,wind and bio-mass energies that available in plenty in India. Moreover,the damaging costs of fukushima are placed at 4.5 trillion yens and ultimately japan has to spend six trillion yens due to the accidednt,equivalent to rupees four lakhs crores.Can poor Indian people be forced to subsidise this huge amount for the sake of foreign reactor suppliers and their counter parts in india who operate the reactors that inherently hazardous.kindly listen to the people,s voice which ultimately has to prevail in a true democracy. If prime minister honestly believes in safety of the reactors,he must ask the foreign reactor suppliers why they failed to convince the insurance companies regarding safety of reactors to provide insurance cover for the costs of damage for an accident.can we bluff indians?
Why power problem. We moving from agriculture to heavy industry. Stop FDI. Reduce industries. Concentrate on agri. India is agricultural country. Many people depending agri sector for job and food. In the name economy growth, Land grabing, power redirection and resources redirection creates problem to all.
Power is need of hour. We should grab it in any form: Coal, wind, Hydel, Tidal on Nuclear. Emotions should not drive us, we should sit up and think. Any industry should take safety measures Nuclear also one among them why are we so crazy when it is 'Nuclear'!? All the fears are baseless and based on hearsay. Hope better sense will prevail and KKNPP will go on steam soon and give much needed power to Tamilnadu.
The above write up hits right on the top of the nail, when it says, Nuclear Energy is the only way to address the power deficit that country faces today & tomorrow. INDIA UNDOUBTEDLY NEEDS TO REDUCE ITS DEPENDANCE ON COAL RESERVES, on a/c of the following reasons: 1.India is home to just 10% of world’s coal reserves, & what it means that, in the years to come, we would end up importing more & more coal from abroad, thereby increasing the burden on foreign exchange reserves. 2.In year 2011-12, Indian coal demand is seen at ~ 700 million T & coal imports have seen a 1/3 jump when compared to last year. 3.Inspite of the above, there were wide-spread crisis of coal shortage for thermal plants all over. 4.Any increase in the coal transport across the country would also have an impact on rail network as well. 5.Above all, coal fired plants emits tones of CO2 to the atmosphere.
Given the above,INDIA NEEDS NUCLEAR POWER & Let's not have second thoughts about that!!
Its a real shame that our government thinks schools, hospitals and roads are luxury. these are basic things that the government is responsible to provide to all citizens of this country. the responsible ministers should be sent to jail for not doing their duty (building schools, hospitals and roads). does it mean to say that every village in the country should wait for the government/corporate to build a power plant or a factory to get their basic rights? the funniest part is that government doing its own work, which it did not do for so many years, under corporate social responsibility.
Why this adamant anti people blitz by the corrupt? Dont you see the people's will based on strict holistic science instead of the government's witchcraft? See NO More Nukes ! Scrap Koodankulam, Fatheabad and other Nuclear Reactors:NAPM-National Alliance of People's Movements Press Release today 8 December 2011 and draw your own conclusions from it. Whereas the European Committee on Radiation Risk(ECRR)'s Model for Nuclear Radiation Risk dictated a recommendation of an annual exposure limit for both internal and external radiation of 0.1 millisieverts(mSv) for a member of the public, the reactors of India and the world subject the people to an annual radiation limit of 1 mSv, an order of magnitude higher. The ECRR's model is applicable for internal radiation whereas the International Commission of Radiological Protection's Risk model is unscientifically applied to internal contamination and hence is unsafe.Safe Kudankulam will cost Rs one lac crore!Stop this perfect mass murder now.
As seen from the report, Power Generation deficit of 50 to 60 K MWs, is a huge & impossible to overcome and the power famine will continue in the years ahead going by the political will,innovative ideas and money availability . While developed states have strengthened their power grid, we are caught napping and running behind DG Sets, inverters/UPS insted of having a viable system.Need of the hour is to have Power revolution,Green revolution II, Milk revolution,Potable water revolution, Housing revolution and anticorruption resolution.
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