Jaideep A. Prabhu is a scholar of diplomatic history and nuclear policy though he has a wide range of scholarly interests from the Classics, ethics, history, law, literature, political philosophy, religion, and security. His regional interests, however, are limited to Western Europe and the Greater Levant. Prabhu has three Masters’ degrees in the humanities despite an engineering background, and has written for several periodicals as well as appeared on national television as an expert commentator.
Presently, Prabhu is based in Israel and conducting research at Ben Gurion Research Institute (BGRI) on religion, secularism, and nationalism, making Israel’s early state-building and foreign policy a case study. The research also touches upon a brief comparative analysis of Zionism and the idea of a Jewish state on the one hand with Hindutva and India on the other.
Prabhu spends his spare time engaged in martial arts, cooking, flamenco, travelling, and scuba diving; he is also an avid fan of football and tennis.
0:00 Intro
0:54 Why India needs to focus more on Nuclear power
2:51 Why Nuclear and not solar or wind
6:42 Benefits of Nuclear power
9:24 Problem with supplying solar electricity from homes to power grid
12:59 Should India follow France’s Nuclear Model
14:52 How many nuclear reactors India needs?
17:18 Is there enough Uranium supply for nuclear reactors?
19:57 Smart France, Stupid Germany
24:00 The problem with India’s nuclear plans
27:34 India needs 1,000 nuclear reactors
28:20 Perfect example of nuclear management - UAE
29:22 Benefits of Nuclear on a country’s economy
31:52 Indian bureaucracy is a big pain in the wrong places
34:18 The economics of Nuclear reactors
37:04 Why Atma-Nirbharta in Nuclear reactor construction is important
41:04 Types of different nuclear reactors
43:10 Why India is not making Thorium reactors
46:02 How safe are nuclear reactors?
48:41 Science of nuclear radiation
51:32 There were Zero deaths due to nuclear radiation in Fukushima
52:52 Many myths surrounding Nuclear radiation
55:01 How big is the issue of Nuclear waste? Is it really a waste?
1:01:28 What India gained from Indo-US nuclear deal
1:09:30 The many problems with Solar energy
1:12:08 Side benefit of nuclear reactors: desalination plants