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Nuke scientists against going ahead with N-deal

Press Trust of India

Tuesday, June 24, 2008, (New Delhi)

As the Congress-led coalition grapples with the nuclear deal issue, senior scientists on Tuesday strongly opposed Government seeking the IAEA Board approval on the safeguards agreement before debating it within the UPA-Left Committee.

"We are strongly of the opinion that the Government should not proceed to seek IAEA Board approval for the current draft safeguards agreement, until its implications are debated more fully within the country, or at least within the UPA-Left Committee," they said.

In a joint statement, P K Iyengar, former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, A Gopalakrishnan, former head of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board and A N Prasad, former Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, said that the agreement should also be dicussed with a group of experts who were not party to the IAEA negotiations.

They said there was a "great deal of disquiet" among the scientific community at large at "this critical juncture" when the government was about to rush the safeguards agreement
to the IAEA "without giving its details to the UPA-Left Committee created specifically for a joint evaluation of the deal".

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Posted By Dr.A.Jagadeesh-Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Any power addition is welcome as there is growing demand for power in the country. Energy is the primary economic factor for any countrys progress. Oil, Electricity etc., are the main components.’ The Integrated Energy Policy document has estimated energy requirements in the year 2030 to be higher than todays levels by a factor of anywhere between four and five if our economy grows at around eight percent per annum. The figures of future requirements are truly gigantic. Electricity generation capacity would need to go up from our current installed capacity of 131,000 MW to between 800,000 and 950,000 MW,. Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP)


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