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V.P. tells PM to review N-deal By Our Correspondent New Delhi, Dec. 16: Former Prime Minister V.P. Singh on Saturday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to review the government?s decision to go ahead with the nuclear deal with the US. Calling on the Prime Minister to take note of the widespread criticism that the deal has evoked in the country, Mr V.P. Singh said the deal attempts to legally bind India by indirectly depriving it of the right to undertake nuclear testing. "Ours is a country abundant with thorium reserves. Our scientists have put in a considerable amount of effort in developing thorium-based nuclear reactors. By importing these expensive uranium-based reactors, we are more or less throttling the thorium option," he said in a statement issued on Saturday. The senior leader pointed out that only three per cent of the country?s nuclear energy requirements are being met and, since India has alternate sources of energy like coal and hydro, "there is no pressing requirement to bend to the pressures being exerted by the US". Mr V.P. Singh noted that the deal includes a bar on building strategic fuel reserves, which are essential for the uninterrupted operation of India?s nuclear reactors, and added that the deal allows the storage of only a limited quantity of fuel, sufficient for regular consumption. As a result, the possibility of a Tarapaur-like situation developing again cannot be ruled out, he added. Mr V.P. Singh felt that India would become dependent on the US by investing in uranium-based reactors and that the supply can be cut off to pressure India to follow the line of the US. Mr Singh pointed out that the safety of the existing nuclear reactors is already a matter of concern and the addition of new reactors will only increase the threat level. He also referred to the absence of technology transfer in the bill passed by the US Congress.

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Re: V.P Singh tells PM to review N-deal althought hsi guy is a proven idiot he is not the only one who si complaiiing scientific communiity is too complaining albit for diff reason. Bushy and company has changed the deal since but point is India is only answerabe to the draft whihc PM signed not what US congress passed.. This episode is not over yet..

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