Mr. Santhanam had spoken about the differences in the yield estimates of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) He had contended, “The fission bomb yield from DRDO’s seismic instrumentation was 25 kiloton (kt).” (The Hindu, September 17, 2009: “Pokhran-II thermonuclear test, a failure”). In his response, Mr. Chidambaram clarified, “The BARC estimate of the yield for the fission device is 15 kiloton [not 25 kiloton] and for the thermonuclear device 45 kiloton. One of the methods used for the estimation of the device yield was close-in acceleration measurement, for which both DRDO and BARC had set up instrumentation. It soon became apparent that after discussion among the two groups of specialists that the DRDO data had anomalies and had to be rejected and that the BARC data, which had the expected waveforms, would be accepted.” Sir, There seems to have been a lot of friction between cold fusion and nuclear fission. I am reminded of a Tamil scholar who invited me for his school function was greatly upset about my lack of knowledge of THIRUKKURAL. He advised me to try start reading it or if I dint have time, to worship a copy as the almighty every morning. The ancient Vedic scholars said the same thing about Ramayana and Bagavath Gita. Now I feel scientists like Mr. Iyengar and Mr. Chidambaram are fighting their private war in the media while keeping the common as worshipper of Protons, Ions, Neutrons, and electrons, without ever knowing anything about what is going on. I agree democracy does not develop science but mere science cannot guide democracy S.Charuhasan
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 05:04:45 +0000
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