Here's why Sri Lanka’s nuke deal with India is a message to China

[gslv mk3]

topic here is '' Sri Lanka’s nuke deal with India is a message to China''

Stay on topic,guys

 

[Gibbs]

Nuclear power plants
Currently, twenty-one nuclear power reactors have a total install capacity of 5,780.00 MW (3.5% of total installed base).[64][65]

Power station Operator State Type Units Total capacity (MW)
Kaiga NPCIL Karnataka PHWR 220 x 4 880
Kakrapar NPCIL Gujarat PHWR 220 x 2 440
Madras NPCIL Tamil Nadu PHWR 220 x 2 440
Narora NPCIL Uttar Pradesh PHWR 220 x 2 440
Rajasthan NPCIL Kota Rajasthan PHWR 100 x 1
200 x 1
220 x 4 1180
Tarapur NPCIL Maharashtra BWR
PHWR 160 x 2
540 x 2 1440
Kudankulam NPCIL Tamil Nadu VVER-1000 1000 x 1 1000[66]
Total 21 5780
The projects under construction are:[67]

Power station Operator State Type Units Total capacity (MW) Expected Commercial Operation
Madras Bhavini Tamil Nadu PFBR 500 x 1 500 March 2015
Kakrapar Unit 3 and 4 NPCIL Gujarat PHWR 700 x 2 1400 Unit 3: June 2015, Unit 4: December 2015
Rajasthan Unit 7 and 8 NPCIL Rajasthan PHWR 700 x 2 1400 Unit 7: June 2016, Unit 8: December 2016
Kudankulam Unit 2 NPCIL Tamil Nadu VVER-1000 1000 x 1 1000 May 2015
Total 6 4300

Those 220,540,700 MW PHWRs & 500 MW FBR are Indian @SipahSalar

Are all these indigenous or foreign collaborated ? I also think India is the only nation so far to offer nuclear tech sharing with Sri Lanka..

 

[The enlightened]

Lol.. You talking about poop of others how ironic.. Primitive ?? Coming from a retard that shyts on the road.. PDF sure brings out creeps out of the wood work

dude please ignore this shit.
On Topic, Sri Lanka should probably partner India in research like the Brits. Would benefit both sides

The United Kingdom is also getting on India’s thorium plans, with five nuclear-research proposals worth more than £2 million being jointly funded by the U.K.’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EPSRC) and by India’s Department of Atomic Energy. One of the grant holders is Mike Fitzpatrick from the Open University, who has already visited India’s Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Mumbai and claims to be “amazed at the ambition and resource behind India’s nuclear program, and how much U.K. researchers could benefit from being associated with it.”

India's ambitious thorium-based nuclear energy plans | Homeland Security News Wire

 

[gslv mk3]

Are all these indigenous or foreign collaborated ?

1000 MW PWR one (Koodankulam),100MW,160 MW BWR (1960s-1970s vintage) are foreign.Those 220,540,700 MW PHWRs & 500 MW FBR are Indian

 

[Hage Tado]

Yeah i guess that toilet cant be kept unwashed.. Hurry

He is the same guy who opened this thread....just ignore him.

 

[Gibbs]

1000 MW PWR one (Koodankulam),100MW,160 MW BWR (1960s-1970s vintage) are foreign.Those 220,540,700 MW PHWRs & 500 MW FBR are Indian

Got to be realistic, India views this deal through foreign and security policy point s of view as well.. If indeed Sri Lanka seeks the tech from China or else where it would have been detrimental to India's regional ambitions.. So this can well be construed as a proactive move

They learnt bitter lessons with Hambantota port etc.. Smart move by the Modi administration

 

[my2cents]

Here's why Sri Lanka’s nuke deal with India is a message to China

You can call it the Narendra Modi government’s first big ticket achievement in the field of diplomacy: the nuclear agreement signed between India and Sri Lanka in New Delhi on Monday as visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Modi watched.

It signifies that the new government of Sri Lanka has started rolling back the previous government’s policies that blatantly favoured China – and thus Pakistan as well – at the cost of India. It also shows that President Sirisena has taken this giant step (of signing the nuclear agreement with India) without bothering about the parliamentary elections in his country which are due in Sri Lanka in April-May.


Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena shaking hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Ceremonial Reception, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on 16 February 2015. Image courtesy PIB

This may be demonstrative of Sirisena’s high level of self-confidence even though he did not win last month’s presidential election with a huge margin (his main rival and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa polled 47.58 percent votes, while Sirisena managed to get 51.28 percent votes) and a huge pro-China lobby is still active in Sri Lanka. India would be hoping that Sirisena’s self-confidence is not misplaced and he wins the upcoming parliamentary elections too.

The most important thing is that Sri Lanka does not boast of a vibrant nuclear energy programme and has plans for just six thousand megawatt of nuclear power by 2031. So why have a nuclear deal with India when nuclear power is neither a big deal in Sri Lanka nor a pressing requirement?

Before we get to possible answers to this question, let us first have a brief run through the nuclear agreement that was signed by India and Sri Lanka today.

The agreement on Cooperation in "Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy" would facilitate cooperation in transfer and exchange of knowledge and expertise, sharing of resources, capacity building and training of personnel in peaceful uses of nuclear energy including use of radioisotopes, nuclear safety, radiation safety, nuclear security, radioactive waste management and nuclear and radiological disaster mitigation and environmental protection. Ratan Kumar Sinha, secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, and Patali Champika Ranawaka, Minister of Power and Energy, signed the agreement on behalf of India and Sri Lanka respectively.

This is what PM Modi said about the nuclear agreement at a joint press interaction with Srisena: "The bilateral agreement on civil nuclear cooperation is yet another demonstration of our mutual trust. This is the first such agreement Sri Lanka has signed. It opens new avenues for cooperation, including in areas like agriculture and healthcare."

The nuclear agreement will see India helping Sri Lanka build its nuclear energy infrastructure, including training of personnel, and this process can be expanded subsequently when India can sell light small-scale nuclear reactors to Sri Lanka.

PM Modi also talked of expanding defence cooperation with Sri Lanka, though he did not provide any details. This is highly significant as having pro-active defence cooperation with Sri Lanka was a big no-no for the previous UPA government.

The development is a huge blow to China, which signed up a $1.5 billion deal with the previous Rajapaksa government for developing a seaport close to the commercial port in Colombo. The Sirisena government has not shelved the project outright yet but has embroiled it in bureaucratic red tape by referring it for environmental clearance.

If Sri Lanka were to be that keen on expanding its nuclear activities, it could have asked for help from countries like China, Russia and even Pakistan which have a fairly large nuclear set up. But it did not do so and instead chose to opt for India instead.

This is Sirisena's unwritten 'thank you' note to India.

However, it won’t be easy for Sri Lanka to write off Chinese influence in days. China has invested $4 billion in Sri Lanka in last five years alone.

Coming few months will be interesting in India-Sri Lanka context and PM Modi's visit to Sri Lanka next month will raise the strategic bar further for both the countries.

Here's why Sri Lanka’s nuke deal with India is a message to China

You can still have relations with China and have trade with India. We have no problem. We know that we are your biggest trading partner and we want this to continue. In return we will give nuclear technology, more tourists, more infrastructure projects and more cultural and sport exchanges. Win-Win for both.

Why are you looking at it with such negative attitude??

 

[my2cents]

Halo machan, magey kaale naasthi karan nathuva pissu katha nokara palayan.

No, you just get them to do your bidding - like Sirisena.

He is our RAW agent.

 

[Azizam]

@Gibbs @Azizam - You are cooperating with our Enemies - the Indians ?

How could you ? I thought we were brothers !

These Indians can't be trusted; I still remember how @SarthakGanguly invited me for dinner. A dinner he claimed would offer the finest cuisines that India had to offer. And yet when I got there he served me 2 minute noodles with half empty bottle of cola !

Jokes aside; this could be a good development for Sri Lanka. As @Gibbs mentioned that Sri Lanka has a lot of Thorium reserves and it appears that the Indians have got a hang of Thorium based nuclear tech !

Who knows Sri Lanka could be the Monaco of the East as a high developed country in an ocean of mediocrity !

I think this government is trying to balance relations between countries. In MR's time, the country was quite isolated.

On the other hand ---

Sri Lanka minister to make first China visit post election| Reuters

 

[Gibbs]

I think this government is trying to balance relations between countries. In MR's time, the country was quite isolated.

On the other hand ---

Sri Lanka minister to make first China visit post election| Reuters

The Island

‘We won’t side with either giant’
‘Both India and China are Sri Lanka’s friends,’ Sirisena tells New Delhi

*Port City Project will go ahead

*Bottom trawling issue raised

*Modi promises support for SL


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By S Venkat Narayan Our Special Correspondent


NEW DELHI, February 17: Visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has conveyed to India's leaders here that his government wishes to be friends with both India and China, but will not be aligned with either. It will stay non-aligned vis-a-vis New Delhi and Beijing.


In his talks with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders here on Monday, Sirisena pointed out that he was paying his first overseas visit as President to India. And he would worship at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya and at Hindu deity Lord Venkateswara's temple at Tirupati today on the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivaratri.


President Sirisena said his government wished to maintain cordial relations with China as well.


When his Indian interlocutors wanted to know what his government planned to do about the controversial $1.4-billion Colombo Port City China began building since last September, Sirisena said about 25% of ground work had already been completed. Asking China to pull out at this late stage was neither feasible nor practical because of the heavy damages Sri Lanka would have to pay up due to the tight agreements the previous regime had signed, he explained.


However, President Sirisena assured the Indians that parts of the agreement that dealt with handing over some 80 acres of the 500-acre land to Chinese control would be renegotiated. Instead, it would be given on a 99-year lease like the rest, he added.


The issue may figure in the talks Minister of External Affairs Mangala Samaraweera will hold during his scheduled visit China (February 27-28). President Sirisena himself is likely to visit China during March 26-30. Before that, he will receive Modi in Colombo in mid-March.


In his separate meetings with Mukherjee and Modi, President Sirisena told them: "My government is a one-month-old baby! We need time to settle down and execute our plans."


His Indian hosts responded positively to the Sirisena Government's 100-day Programme. They conveyed their happiness to President Sirisena about the steps his government had taken so far, like appointing eminent civilians as Governors of the Northern and Eastern Provinces in place of military commanders, and deciding to return one thousand acres of private land now under the Army's control to its owners in Valikamam North in the northern part of Jaffna Peninsula, among other things.


Sirisena raised the issue of fishermen from Tamil Nadu indulging in bottom-trawling in Sri Lankan waters and destroying the island's coral beauty and wealth. Health Minister Dr Rajitha Senaratne gave a detailing briefing on how the methods adopted by Tamil Nadu fishermen were posing a grave danger to the island and hurting the livelihood of its fishermen.


Sri Lanka brought these issues to the attention of the previous government here. But, it chose to do nothing much. "Prime Minister Modi realises that this is a serious matter and we hope his government will do something soon," a senior member of the Sri Lankan delegation told The Island.


The Indians said they would be happy to offer whatever help the Sirisena government wanted to make to execute its ambitious plans to make Sri Lanka a prosperous country where people of all races could work and live happily together.


External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arjun Jaitley, former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Opposition Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi called on President Sirisena at his Grand Presidential Suite (Chanakya Suite) at Hotel ITC Maurya.

 

[axisofevil]

Nevahhhhhh!!!!! ... Pak/Lanka is deeper than Romeo and Juliet.. No Modi can change that

Fake Sri Lankan