Everybody is aware that to sustain the current growth rate and to quickly become a developed nation, India has to solve its Energy woos.
Today we are seeing the impact of shortage of electric energy in rural India. There are long power cuts ( load shading ). Even the industrial areas are experiencing unstable power supply, So they have to rely on own generator back-ups. The picture is more or less same in all regions of India.
Mr. Manmonhan Singh & Congress party in UPA government understood this and signed a Civil Nuclear Energy co-operation deal with USA's Republican Mr. George Bush led government.
In India we have found mixed reactions to this deal from both political parties and scientists.
Given that Nuclear energy is not safe and highly costly, government should look into other options. Example Europe is going green with Wind Energy. More and more European nations are targeting higher percentage of power from pollution free Wind Energy. Why can't we have similar projects coming up in India. Government should also see that deal for Gas supply from Iran, happens and we get continuous supply of gas. Further investment should increase in R&D related to use of Solar Energy.
Why Nuclear energy is not safe for India? Accidents though rare ( e.g Chernobyl ) leave very severe effects. This factor is important w.r.t densely populated country like India. It will not be easy to protect Nuclear installations from Terrorist attacks and spies.
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