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Nuclear power in India

Auteur	David Hart
Datum	1983
Classificatie	4.03.0.00/12 (INDIA - ALGEMEEN)
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Introduction

The rise in the price of oil during 1973-4 focused the attention of the world on the 
subject of energy. Oil is now reckoned, in real terms, to be about five times as 
expensive as it was in 1972. This has led to particularly severe problems for the oil-
importing underdeveloped countries. Does their future development depend upon a 
move away from oil use, or rather upon locating their own supplies? If the former, 
what alternative energy sources are they to choose?
The issue of nuclear power in the Third World is one that conflates three separate, 
and individually vital, topics. First, that of energy supplies for the world's future- 
whether these will consist of fossil fuels, nuclear power, renewable energy sources, 
or some other. Second, that of how the Third World is to develop - whether through 
establishing the techniques and institutions of the rich world and nurturing them in 
their own climes, or through fostering their own individual approaches which, it is 
hoped, would better satisfy their needs. Third, that of nuclear disarmament and 
weapons proliferation, a topic which is currently of greatly renewed interest for a 
number of disparate reasons (one of which is India's nuclear explosion of 1974). 
Thus, nuclear power in the Third World is of crucial interest to many people, in 
the First and Second Worlds as well as in the Third.
All three of these topics are touched upon in this work, but particular emphasis is 
given to the problem of energy. Is energy, as many people believe, in short supply 
worldwide? There are several indications that this is not so. On average about two-
thirds of all the oil in every reservoir is left in the ground, because it is 
generally reckoned uneconomic to pump it out rather than just let it come up under
its own pressure. About 40% of all the natural gas found in conjunction with oil is 
flared- this percentage being generally higher in the Third World.

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