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Institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE), the well-known NGO that promotes sustainable energy, the actual grid connected renewable energy potential of the country is much more than this dcxciii : • Wind Energy – 100,000 MW; • CSP based power generation – 200,000 MW; • Solar PV based power generation – 200,000 MW. Therefore, if serious efforts are made to harness this massive renewable energy potential, then only a very limited amount of new electricity generation from conventional sources would be needed. This means: • There would be no need to set up the giant sized nuclear power plants – with all their deathly consequences – being planned by the government. All the new projects can be scrapped, and the operating reactors can gradually be phased out. • There would also be no need to set up large centralized coal and hydro based power plants on the scale visualized by the government. The Paradigm is two decades old… Actually, there is nothing very original or creative in the above analysis. Some of India’s most renowned energy analysts have been writing about the enormous potential of adopting energy efficiency measures since at least the last two decades. For instance, way back in 1991, A. K. N. Reddy critically reviewed the projections made by a Committee set up by the Karnataka State government about the energy requirements of the state by the year 2000. He showed that this could be brought down to only about 38% of the conventional demand, by adopting simple efficiency improvement methods like the replacement of inefficient motors with efficient motors, incandescent bulbs by CFLs, and electric water heaters by solar water heaters! dcxciv However, neither the Central government, nor the State governments, ever took these recommendations seriously. The IEP 2006 admits: “In the 1990s, several studies have estimated the potential and cost effectiveness of energy efficiency and demand side management (DSM) in India. Despite these potential studies, actual implementation has been sluggish.” The IEP also confesses that though the 10 th Five Year Plan (2002-2007) has set targets for energy savings, no financial allocation has been made to achieve these targets! dcxcv That is, the targets are supposed to be musings. Yet, it continues to be trashed… Despite these acknowledgements, the IEP 2006 too does not take into consideration the huge scope of implementing energy efficiency measures in the country while calculating the future electricity generation requirements of the country, and forecasts that the country would need a mind-boggling 788 GW of electrical generation capacity by 2032! Even more astonishingly, the IEP 2006 gives renewables only a 5% share in total power generation by 2031-32, ignoring even the estimates made by the Ministry of New and Renewable 168
Energy about the huge potential of renewable electricity generation in the country! It further goes on to say that their role would be marginal role even upto 2050!! dcxcvi While the world is rapidly moving towards increasing the penetration of renewable energy in electricity generation, India’s energy planners and leaders despite being aware of the potential are deliberately ignoring the enormous potential of energy conservation and generating grid connected electricity from new renewable energy sources. They continue to declare that the country must expand its electricity generation capacity by a whopping five times from the present installed capacity of 160 GW over the next two decades, and that an overwhelming proportion of it would come from conventional energy sources. And so they are mindlessly pushing ahead with setting up extremely polluting coal fired power plants, large hydroelectric projects which render destitute lakhs of people, and deathly giant sized nuclear power plants. 169
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NUCLEAR ENERGY Technology From Hell
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Introduction Part I: Government Pla
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yet to find solution to the problem
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Mithivirdi: A powerful movement of
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nuclear power plant accident, in ou
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was subsequently endorsed by the he
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Atoms are so small that they can’
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called enriched uranium. [Note that
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of a nuclear power reactor. A typic
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Coolant: A liquid or gas circulatin
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Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor Hea
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Is Nuclear Energy Safe? Chapter 3 A
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haematopoietic system). Radiation c
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Part III: Radiation Emission in Nuc
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power plant contains an amount of l
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Plutonium cxi Named after Pluto, th
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fossil fuels. It has now come up wi
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Table 1: Estimates of Total and Nuc
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1. Reviewing the Nuclear Renaissanc
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certification also runs out in 2012
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nuclear phase-out plans which are n
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lower house (Bundestag) to pass a b
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UK and French nuclear safety author
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Pre-Independence Period India’s N
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Secretary to the DAE. The 1958 Reso
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clearance, indicative of the fact t
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producing electricity from these re
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arm of Indian big industry, had ext
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