Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 1:12 · Video file(7.4 MB)
India's nuclear plans face challenges due to a scandal involving bribes to sign a deal in 2008, potentially saving billions. G.E. faces criticism for Japan's nuclear
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According to Japanese law, she will not be how liable for any of that, which could save them potentially tensed to hundreds of billions of dollars. Now this comes on top of a huge scandal that's rocking India today. Wiki leaks, the whistle blowing website actually released thousands of cables showing that Americans knew about bribes to Indian politicians to make them sign that the U.S. Nintendo nuclear deal back in 2008. So that's clearly not helping American image here in the subcontinent right now. India is planning on increasing its nuclear atomic generation 13 times by 2030. There are several American companies not just G, that are very keen on trying to get a stake in that. But as of right now, India doesn't want to have another potential disaster like what they're seeing over in Japan happening here, especially given the fact that G.E. isn't really being held responsible or accountable for what's happening over there. So only time will tell, but as you've seen, since the days following the disaster, G.E. stocks have been tumbling. So we're going to have to wait and see what effects that has on its future plans to build nuclear reactors around the world in here in India as well.
India Nuclear Bribery2008 Nuclear DealG.E. Japan Disaster