Reality Check --India US Nuclear Deal !!!

These are the best of times.
These are the worst of times.
Today when we have access to a breadth and depth of information, some of us still continue to live in a virtual world. While some of us live in a world away from cause and effect, some of us live a life which is more driven by the things happening around. The latest thing happening around forced me to share some of the facts and figures.

And while I write this post,I continue to wonder over the Intellectual Immaturity the Media has been creating. The image as portrayed by the media of the Indo US nuclear deal is nothing less then " a step towards the Utopian World".

The quick check on what people believe Nuclear Deal is –

* It offers uranium at cheaper cost
* It provides us rocket science technology for Nuclear Energy.
* It offers us Cheap Reactors.

They believe so because they have been told by MEDIA –

· It provides us access to Latest Technology

---strengthening indigenous program.

· Access to Uranium and Reactors

---To help our power generation.



Reality Check –

· Since we use HW reactors, Fast breed reactors that are based on Thorium Utilization (a technology that is much better then Uranium based reactors) and we have 90% components that are indigenous ,why the hell do we need Tech Imports ?

· We have Uranium resources sufficient only for 10000 reactors,in a world where we hardly have 140 reactors operating.

· Quality of ore possessed by us varies from 0.1% to 14 -15% ,where as the Uranium Hubs in the world including Australia-Kazakhstan's exported ore is of < 0.1% quality.

· There is enough Uranium for all the Nuclear Supplier Countries but just not for us the lesser mortals.

· We are signing off with a nation that REFUSED TO ACCEPT US AS A NUCLEAR POWER AFTER POKHRAN.

Reality check for the Media---

Integrated Energy Policy, Volume I ,Xxii

---"Even if a 20 fold increase takes place in India's Nuclear capacity by 2031-2032 ,the contribution of India's nuclear power to energy generation, at best is expected to be 4 -6.4 %

For possibility of such a marginal contribution, our Government and Media are hell bound over mortgaging our strategic interests.

Growth of Nuclear power is indeed a definite solution for Energy Crisis and need of the hour but rather than continuing with the perpetual dependency and import we can explore our options and expand our capabilities.

Last but not the least—

Some more misconceptions—

1. 1.GOVT must see some point in this

* At a point in history our govt went to the extent of buying Cowdung
* We bought pulses,rice,wheat at very high costs while our farmers were waiting for their crops to be sold at nominal prices.
* We want to have One Laptop One Child program ,when we are struggling with figures at Primary level !!!

2. The Media –they cannot be stupid !!

Those who still believe in present media please mail me back, I have better reasons to not to trust them.


Facts and figures --
Collected by Anurag tripathi- anurag.r.tripathi@gmail.com-Phd Student -Dept of Chemical-IIT Bombay from Talks by Arun Shourie ,P.K.Iyengar,A.N.Prasad

A FORWARD...

THIS ONE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM A FORWARD AND FROM NOTHER BLOG BUT THE MOTIVE IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT....

We get email forwards each day and most die in the mail box. This one didn't.

By the time u guys read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military honors.
On Nov 27, this news swept across all the news channels 'Sanjay Dutt relieved by court'. 'Sirf Munna not a bhai' '13 saal ka vanvaas khatam' 'although found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay can breath sigh of relief as all the TADA charges against him are withdrawn' Then many personalities like Salman Khan said 'He is a good person. We knew he will come out clean'. Mr Big B said "Dutt's family and our family have relations for years he's a good kid. He is like elder brother to Abhishek". His sister Priya Dutt said "we can sleep well tonight. It 's a great relief"
In other news, Parliament was mad at Indian team for performing bad; Greg Chappell said something; Shah Rukh Khan replaces Amitabh in KBC and other such stuff. But most of the emphasis was given on Sanjay Dutt's "phoenix like" comeback from the ashes of terrorist charges. Surfing through the channels, one news on BBC startled me. It read "Hisbul Mujahidin's most wanted terrorist 'Sohel Faisal' killed in Anantnag, India . Indian Major leading the operation lost his life in the process. Four others are injured.
It was past midnight , I started visiting the stupid Indian channels, but Sanjay Dutt was still ruling. They were telling how Sanjay pleaded to the court saying 'I'm the sole bread earner for my family', 'I have a daughter who is studying in US' and so on. Then they showed how Sanjay was not wearing his lucky blue shirt while he was hearing the verdict and also how he went to every temple and prayed for the last few months. A suspect in Mumbai bomb blasts, convicted under armory act...was being transformed into a hero.
Sure Sanjay Dutt has a daughter; Sure he did not do any terrorist activity. Possessing an AK47 is considered too elementary in terrorist community and also one who possesses an AK47 has a right to possess a pistol so that again is not such a big crime; Sure Sanjay Dutt went to all the temples; Sure he did a lot of Gandhigiri but then...........
Major Manish H Pitambare got the information from his sources about the terrorists' whereabouts. Wasting no time he attacked the camp, killed Hisbul Mujahidin's supremo and in the process lost his life to the bullets fired from an AK47. He is survived by a wife and daughter (just like Sanjay Dutt) who's only 18 months old.
Major Manish never said 'I have a daughter' before he took the decision to attack the terrorists in the darkest of nights. He never thought about having a family and he being the bread earner. No news channel covered this since they were too busy hyping a former drug addict, a suspect who's linked to bomb blasts which killed hundreds. Their aim was to show how he defied the TADA charges and they were so successful that his conviction in possession of armory had no meaning. They also concluded that his parents in heaven must be happy and proud of him.
Parents of Major Manish are still living and they have to live rest of their lives without their beloved son. His daughter won't ever see her daddy again. Finally Major Manish, to my generation is a greater hero, someone who laid his life in the name of this great nation.
So guys, please forward this message around so that the media knows which news to give importance, as it is a shame for us since this Army Major's
death news was given by a foreign TV channel!!!