Hillary Clinton’s India visit may give a nuclear reactor to Gujarat
Hillary Clinton’s India visit will give a nuclear reactor to Gujarat
By our correspondent
Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 15 July, 2009
According to story published in section of national media, the government of India has finalized a site in Gujarat for the first US nuclear reactor after the nuclear deal.
According to Indian Express, the govt of India is learnt to have firmed up a site each in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. While this has already been indicated to Washington, sources said, a formal announcement could happen during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit.
Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh were the two states that offered sites for this and have now been approved, according to report.
The identification of the sites flows from a commitment India had given, through a letter of intent under the nuclear deal, which commits India to purchase 10,000 MW from US nuclear companies and mark “at least two sites” for this purpose.
On a broader level, India and the US have agreed to restructure their interaction and condense some 27 ongoing bilateral dialogues at various levels under what will now be called “five pillars” of the relationship — Strategic and Defence Cooperation, Science & Technology and Health Innovation, Energy and Climate Change, Education and Development, and Economic, Trade and Agriculture.
Background
-India had planned new coastal nuclear power stations, using high-end reactors of 1,000 MWe and above.
-It was planned that the stations would be designed to accommodate up to six to eight such reactors so that the overall capacity of each station can be gradually ramped up to almost 8,000 MWe.
-In 2006, a 12-member Site-Selection Committee under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), which recommends locations for setting up nuclear plants to the Centre, had visited a number of coastal areas in the country including sites in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal. The team had selected Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh finaly.
-Sites were examined in terms of their suitability for setting up large nuclear stations and technical data including soil test, availability of water, flood data, and geomorphological data. The projects were to use light water reactors and are most likely to be run using imported fuel, because of which the coastal sites were selected.
-In September 2008, public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) announced that it had identified locations to set up greenfield units for manufacturing nuclear power equipment in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:24 am
dear modiji..
i am very happy about it but little worry about security in india…
I LOVE HILLARY CLINTON’S AND HER DIGNITY… I LOVE HER WHEN I WAS VERY SMALL.. she is so strong lady.. i like bill clinton too. he is nice man now..from my side,, thanks a lot hillary clinton.. she is beautiful nice lady… my heart broke when she doesn’t become prime minister but anyway best of luck for her job.. she can make a world better place and india too..
i love to see photos and exchage of thought between modiji and hillary clinton… she can help gujarat.. love it man..
see you soon ,,,,, thanks america for their good support.. that we as a gujarat did not get support from central gov.. anyway,, we hope for better this time..
bye men and women..
July 15th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
So where is it going to come up? I hope they put again on barren coastline as radiation is always a danger. But this is one of the cleanest fuel in the world.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Hold your horses folks,
Americans have not built or designed a single nuclear reactor for 40 years.American companies
that use to build Nuclear reactors are virtually bankrupt.Have you forgotten long Island Reactor had a meltdown and do you want to repeat that in Gujarat.
Besides parts of Gujarat are Earth quake Zones.Electricity from nuclear reactor cost several times more then produced by Nuclear reactors.
India needs Nuclear reactors but not from USA.
France and other countries have now 3rd or 4th generation of nuclear reactor designs.
Americans have not fulfilled their promise of supplying fuel for Tarapur and other reactors yet.
That was what they were contracted to do.
What makes you think even if they build it they will full fill their promises of supplying the fuel.
They charge 50 times more then other countries and have no capacity and or design experience for new generation of efficient safe nuclear reactors.
They are con-merchants after your money.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:32 am
i think SADIA COMMENT is right guys.. she has a much more knowledge about reactors.. i heard also much comment by sadia before,, sadia ,, do you work under government??? well, your opiion is mush more mature than us.. well, done lady..
i think we must have a knowledge of world best to our middle class.. gujarati media must behave in responsible way and must educate the people of gujarat in crisis.. we as a gujarat go through so much pain for last many years and come up again in right side.. i hope that gujarati media will teach a good things to next generation of gujarati family… gujarat must have a attactive destination for western people and their family.. gujarat society must have a open minded approach of life.. this good thing must know by gujarati media..
i think gujarat government must have to go to different parts of world and discover different community and invite to gujarat.. gujarat police must have a I.T department,doctor sections,global approach of life..
gay rights,alcohol consumers,prostitute,dalits peoples,sex educations,,acceptance in guj … make all this thing so much professional that nobody will act against them.. i know that this thing take times to accept in gujarat conservative society but we have to plan our next 50 years… to reach to global people and make gujarat true globally.. sports must be given importance in gujarat.. make world class players and sports related society.. that give much heplful to people.. gujarat must have healthy life style….
every gujarat student must have to spend a 1 year in abroad to get universal exposure and find out his or her true love about life.. this give a chance to how to live a life.. gujarat government must give chance to students and family consultaion in every gujarat school.. their should be sex education in every school.. this is importance in gujarat.. i know that gujarat is more religious place but we have to move forward in life..
see you soon.. i gave my opinion about my gujarat…
bye..
July 24th, 2009 at 2:59 am
This is a disaster!
Last thing Gujarat needs are crappy power stations from US! Better to sign up with France’s Areva which is already got the contracts to build a nuclear power park in Maharashtra. Remember that France’s 80% of electricity supply is from nuclear sources. It is over 30 years since the Americans built a nuclear power station!
Plus since Japan’s Toshiba owns the US nuclear power suppliers, Japan’s govt. needs to approve any sale – they will refuse to sell to any country which has ever tested a nuclear weapon!