In my dream the other night two neutrons wandering had a small chat...
Neutron1: Lets kick some real arse buddy!
Neutron2: Yeah! Probably it's time to hit upon uranium...
Neutron1: wait wait wait... Looks like the dark lords coming.
Neutron: Boron huh!?
Neutron2: Nopes.. we can easily ditch a boron. This seems to be something else :S
a SHADOW appears from the dark...
Shadow: so where do you wanna settle? India, Russia, France, USA...
Both Neutron1 and Neutron2: Lolz... we heard India. Not possible dude!
Lights on....
Nuclear energy still remains only the forth energy source for electricity generation in India after thermal, hydroelectric and renewable energy resources. I think India today aiming at worlds third largest nuclear power plant expansion plan, has certainly taken an ambitious leap. But will this surely happen!?
these days in the newspaper on one page we read news regarding 14 new nuclear power plant approval by Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in different parts of the country, including one at Kovvada in the backward Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, Jaitapur in Maharashtra or Kundakulam in Tamil Nadu, where one of the two VVER-type reactors (2000 MWe) is ready for operation and on the very next page the politics played by bureaucrats and MP's to cash upon it.
Taking the case of Kovvada plant which is receiving opposition from families to be displaced and civil society groups on grounds of improper compensation offered by NPCIL, I think the government has taken a very wise decision by offering four time the existing land rates as settlement. But due to this, what we can say mean minded attitude of the mango man, its India which has to suffer in the longer run. And then the opposition gets mulling over the government blaming it for a complete failure to handle the situation.
In the nutshell, the civil society groups instead of ragging the government should explain the benefits of these nuclear power plants. Our lands today can be put to use in a much better way than the existing methodologies and that a few bucks lost today will turn out into gold tomorrow. Its time we Indians think out of our domain so that may be a few years later we will again become the same 'Sone ki Chidiya!!'
Fingers Crossed!
A Concerned Indian.
