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M.V. RAMANA

The Power of Promise

Examining Nuclear Energy in India

Contents

Advance Praise for the Book

Solidly researched and meticulously argued, The Power of Promise is a landmark in the debate on nuclear energy in India. Ramana has managed to make complex technological, economic and other issues intelligible with great lucidity. Essential reading for everyone concerned about the difficult energy choices we confront today.

Amita Baviskar, sociologist of environment and development, Institute of Economic Growth

The Power of Promise will serve as the authoritative source for many years to come on Indias civilian nuclear power program. Ramanas comprehensive and expert history of Indias efforts to establish nuclear power as the modern energy source to drive development is without peer. With style and detail he tells the story of false starts, overblown claims, accidents, cost overruns, and, despite the difficulties, continued hope that nuclear power will be the answer to Indias economic underdevelopment. This is a must-read for all who are interested in the future of nuclear power in Indiaand around the world.

Kennette Benedict, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

The Power of Promise is as timely as it is important. I have no doubt that it will come to be regarded as a landmark, not only in the debates on nuclear and energy issues, but also in the history and sociology of Indian science.

Amitav Ghosh (www.amitavghosh.com/blog)

M.V. Ramana has provided a concise history of the Indian nuclear power program, along with insights and analyses only very few can logically put together. Very readable and a bold depiction of events and facts.

A. Gopalakrishnan, former chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board

Combining sober prose with solid research and sharp analysis, The Power of Promise is an authoritative and comprehensive study of Indias nuclear energy industry. This is a story of, among other things, accidents, breakdowns, operational delays, cost overruns, and of large promises consistently broken or unfulfilled. This much celebrated industry is, on closer scrutiny, revealed to be the whitest of white elephants. There may still be political compulsions for having nuclear weapons as a deterrent; but, as M.V. Ramanas outstanding work of scholarship so convincingly demonstrates, on environmental, ethical, and especially economic grounds, there is really no case for promoting nuclear energy in India.

Ramachandra Guha, author of India After Gandhi

The good news in this understated but devastating study is that the Indian nuclear establishment and its international backers cannot deliver the massive capability they have promised. The bad news is that their reckless speed in the face of rising local resistance can create disasters that could dwarf Fukushima.

Anand Patwardhan, documentary film-maker

The Power of Promise is an excellent work on the ongoing energy challenges being faced by the fast growing economy of India, and examines in detail the current policy of relying on nuclear energy as the saviour of its projected development program.

Admiral Ramdas, former Chief of Naval Staff

M.V. Ramana has captured in a readable, yet rigorous, manner, the saga of a nations obsession with nuclear energy. From the heady days of Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi Bhabha, to the current reality of an entrenched nuclear bureaucracy with virtually endless political power and patronage, and the serious challenges from growing resistance movements, The Power of Promise is a fascinating, well researched journey. A must read for all those who seriously seek a better understanding of our future energy options and factors at work under the surface.

Lalita Ramdas, former board chair, Greenpeace International; founding member, Greenpeace India

The Power of Promise is the first independent assessment of six decades of Indias nuclear programme. Based entirely on official and other published documents, this exhaustive work critically examines what the nuclear establishment has been promising all these years, what it has actually delivered, and its new promises over the next half century.

C. Rammanohar Reddy, editor, Economic and Political Weekly

Official disclosures on nuclear technology in India have tended to underplay the risks and the costs, and overplay the benefits. This has impaired the quality of political debate. Through his incisive analysis of what the nuclear establishment had promised in the past and what it could really achieve, M.V. Ramana has succeeded in creating an environment in which the discourse on the technology will get deepened and more sensible outcomes will emerge.

E.A.S. Sarma, former Secretary, ministry of power, Government of India

In The Power of Promise , the dream of a nuclear power renaissance in India runs into a thick wall of technical, economic and historical facts, and falls to the ground. The implications of this meticulously researched, thoughtfully argued, authoritative, state of the art analysis extend beyond India and even nuclear power itself to shed new light on the character and future of nuclear danger in its entirety.

Jonathan Schell, author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

The Power of Promise is an unprecedented systemic analysis of underlying historical, technical, economic and political aspects of nuclear energy in India, and will be a pure work of reference. Dont claim to know anything about Indias nuclear programme if you have not read this book yet.

Mycle Schneider, energy analyst and author of World Nuclear Industry Status Report series

This magisterial study, demonstrating a mastery of the existing literature and a sure grasp of the science and technologies involved, is now the single most authoritative account anywhere of the Department of Atomic Energys performance record and its claims to providing cheap, safe and plentiful electricity in the future.

Achin Vanaik, retired professor of International Relations and Global Politics, University of Delhi

List of Acronyms

AEC	Atomic Energy Commission
AECL	Atomic Energy Canada Limited
AERB	Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
AFR	Away from Reactor
AHWR	Advanced Heavy Water Reactor
AMD	Atomic Minerals Directorate
BARC	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
BARCCIS	Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Channel Inspection System
BAU	Business as Usual
BEIR	Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
BFEA	BARC Facilities Employees Association
BHAVINI	Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam
BHEL	Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
BJP	Bharatiya Janata Party
BWR	Boiling Water Reactor
CAG	Comptroller and Auditor General
CANDU

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