Archive for October 6th, 2008
First, the deal to enhance nuclear energy will in fact curtail Indiarsquo;s nuclear defence. Secondly, closer interaction with the US which the deal brings about will compromise national independence and make India a client state of the …
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Third, new plants are needed for recovery of plutonium in the spent fuel from the heavy water reactors to launch a sizable fast breeder programme. Some thought should be given to establishing quickly a large national reprocessing …
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Nuclear energy cannot address issues connected to the greenhouse gas buildup. Nuclear power plants are too costly, take too long to build, and are too expensive to operate to affect the problem in time. In fact, investments in nuclear …
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Since May, the IAEA has been investigating Syria, based on US intelligence allegations that it had almost completed a secret nuclear reactor that might have made bomb-grade plutonium before the site was destroyed in an Israeli air …
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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Security risks have heightened in recent weeks on the Korean peninsula after North Korea declared it was stepping away from a nuclear disarmament deal and restoring a Soviet-era nuclear reactor that can make bomb-grade plutonium. …
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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The US halts oil shipments and aid, and demands you keep up your side of the bargain. You remove seals from the original nuclear reactor and announce it is going to be activated again, and you’ll restart reprocessing plutonium. …
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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The main problem for the terrorists now is lack of fissile material, which is plutonium or uranium with large portion being able to perform rapid nuclear fission. Both plutonium and uranium suitable for making nuclear weapons are rare. …
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