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4:12 PM on July 16, 2008
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The Nuclear deal is ment to open the Indian nuclear power generation market to western(US, Europian, Australian)countries. This will mean companies like GE, Alstom, Simence etc will get orders and money. This deal will also mean that India's nuclear programme will remain slave to the uranium supplying cartel of countries.
India has one of the largest reserves of Thorium. A thorium based nuclear programme is what India needs to work on and perfect. Besides the supply, thorium has much shorter cooling period and its waste is much less radioactive.
The nuclear deal is against India's long term interests.
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