China has been building infrastructure in the disputed islands as it consolidated its hold on the area after an China Wholesale solar hybrid inverter Manufacturers international tribunal quashed its claims over almost all of the SCS. The strategic waters through which over USD 5 trillion of goods pass annually has rival claims over it by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.The floating nuclear power plants were aimed at providing power to the remote islands as power cannot be supplied from Chinese mainland.The smallest lead-cooled reactor could be placed inside a shipping container measuring about 6.1 metres long and 2.6 metres high but would be able to generate 10 megawatts of heat, which, if converted into electricity, would be enough to power some 50,000 households, the Post report said.It is also capable of running for years or even decades without refuelling, and scientists say that because it produces neither dust nor smoke, even on a small island a resident would hardly notice its existence, the report said.

　　Recently, we have seen a design to designate non-money bills as money bills so that the legislative competence of the Upper House can be bypassed.All of the above developments help to explain why the BJP acted in the manner it did in Arunachal Pradesh and, more recently, in Uttarakhand. The direct takeaway is that we are now dealing with a party which believes that as a matter of right it can, on the basis of a transient majority in the Lok Sabha, act in any matter it wishes without reference to either ethics, principles, legality or the Constitution.Power should normally acquaint those who wield it with responsibility. When this does not happen, the nation witnesses what happened in Uttarakhand. That is why, to my mind, Uttarakhand will be remembered not only for its blatant violation of democracy and the principles of the Constitution, but also for the sheer hubris of power.Author-diplomat Pavan K. Varma is a Rajya Sabha member.