Nuclear renaissance cannot be missed: PM
India cannot afford to miss the bus of nuclear renaissance, says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
By PTI |
TARAPUR: Fresh from a truce with the Left parties on the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said India cannot afford to miss the bus of nuclear renaissance. Singh said fast reactor technologies should be expeditiously developed and efforts intensified to locate additional uranium resources in the country.
There is a talk the world over of a nuclear renaissance and "we cannot afford to miss the bus or lag behind these global developments," Singh said here.
The Prime Minister was speaking at a function to dedicate two high-efficiency nuclear reactors to the nation in this township in Maharashtra's Thane district.
The Prime Minister said India "is now too important a country to remain outside the international mainstream" in the critical area of nuclear energy. He said international cooperation cannot become effective until the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) adapts its guidelines to enable nuclear commerce with India.
The NSG itself has made it clear that they will not do so till the India-specific safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is finalised.
"Once these steps are taken, India can commence civil nuclear cooperation with all the 45 members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. This will signal the end of our international isolation of the past few decades," Singh said.
"We have set a modest target of 20,000 MW of nuclear power generation by the year 2020. This can be doubled with the opening up of international cooperation," the Prime Minister said.
There is a talk the world over of a nuclear renaissance and "we cannot afford to miss the bus or lag behind these global developments," Singh said here.
The Prime Minister was speaking at a function to dedicate two high-efficiency nuclear reactors to the nation in this township in Maharashtra's Thane district.
The Prime Minister said India "is now too important a country to remain outside the international mainstream" in the critical area of nuclear energy. He said international cooperation cannot become effective until the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) adapts its guidelines to enable nuclear commerce with India.
The NSG itself has made it clear that they will not do so till the India-specific safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is finalised.
"Once these steps are taken, India can commence civil nuclear cooperation with all the 45 members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. This will signal the end of our international isolation of the past few decades," Singh said.
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"We have set a modest target of 20,000 MW of nuclear power generation by the year 2020. This can be doubled with the opening up of international cooperation," the Prime Minister said.
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