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India’s Nuclear Conundrum / Jaswant Singh, Project Syndicate, 28/04/2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/singh13/EnglishJapan’s nuclear disaster has fueled fear and uncertainty  among all of the world’s producers of nuclear power. For India, an  energy-starved country, much is at stake. That fear factor has two  main causes. Although nuclear power ranks as a “clean” source of  energy, it is accompanied by the terrible shadow of nuclear war, which  emerged from Japan’s last reckoning with nuclear catastrophe, 65 years  ago at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and which lends it an automatic  association with mass destruction and death. Moreover, the secrecy that  attends all things “nuclear” has left people not knowing enough to feel  confident...