Is it the economic factor? The nuclear industry in the US has been going through a stagnant phase in recent years as evident from the fact that no new commercial nuclear reactor has come on line there in the last decade. Having one of the largest nuclear industries in the world, such stagnancy does not bode well in the business-oriented minds of US policy makers, and certainly not for the nuclear industry there.
With the Henry Hyde Act permitting trade and commerce in nuclear technology and fuel with India, the US nuclear industry stands to gain substantially from the nascent but emerging Indian nuclear market, which was so far constrained by technological and fuel gaps, so who's interest is it. Or is it all politics? BJP is now opposing Indo-US civil nuclear cooperation. But it is they who initiated the pro-US policy.
Atal Behari Bajpayee as NDA Govt. Prime Minister flew to Washington in search of a ‘new dawn’ and enthusiastically declared that India had now entered into a new era of Indo-US relationship. In fact, there is no basic difference between the BJP and the Congress, so far their attitude towards America is concerned. I am opposed to both of them. ef ef
(Rahul is based in Lucknow, and a graduate in Computer Science from Fergusson College. He blogs regularly)
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