Mangoes for Uranium
Thursday, March 02, 2006
"And, oh, by the way, Mr. Prime Minister, the United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangoes. Part of liberalizing trade is to open up markets. And as a result of your leadership, and our hard work, we are opening up markets. Our agricultural knowledge initiative is an important initiative for both countries, where we'll fund joint agricultural research projects"
Are you kidding me? Is he there to sign the the Nuclear deal or what?
Need - Although I congratulate Mr. Manmohan Singh for reaching a historical understanding with the US, the Nuclear deal signed by the two countries has not set a good example. Now, I'm not being a devil's advocate but its high time we started looking for and developing "Renewable Resources" not create nuclear waste and just dump them. Am sure there's gonna be a huge debate on how/where to dump the waste. But I guess the current situation India is in right now, demands Nuclear power.
As an explanation take this - "Nuclear power is a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better off it is for the American people," says Bush ...
"Increasing demand for oil from America, from India and China, relative to a supply that's not keeping up with demand, causes our fuel prices to go up." - Voila what a revelation !!!
Never during 24 years of my education have I come across this fact. The fact that Nuclear energy is renewable !!
Responsibility - I have no doubt that we (India) are a responsible nuclear state even though we havent signed the NPT. Now both countries have to think about selling this (Mr. Singh to our Parliament and Mr. Bush to the Congress) - not that it is difficult but Nuclear Fuel is not the solution and am sure in the coming years, we are gonna learn this the tough way.
Future - On second thoughts as someone asked Mr. Bush at the Hyderabad House - " Why should other countries sign the NPT if India is getting a deal without doing so, Sir?"
Excerpts from - Washinton Post, WhiteHouse.gov, Reuters
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