Hyde Act, Indian reactors undue *****s bother

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IAEA board meet on 28th July for India civil nuke

2008-07-11 07:50:13 - Chairman of the US House of Representatives
Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman, has not spoken yet about the
moves in Vienna, but he has already said any progress on the nuclear
deal must be 'completely consistent with the Hyde Act' which continues
to raise eyebrows in corridor of power in India.

Diplomats say the International Atomic Energy Agency will hold a board
meeting on 28th July to approve the agency's nuclear rules for India;
the NSG group is expected to meet within days after any IAEA board
approval of the pact.

The meeting is im****tant because it will move New Delhi forward in its
quest to put into action a landmark nuclear
deal with the U.S.

Without so-called IAEA safeguards, India cannot hope to gain the
business of countries ex****ting nuclear technology which are grouped
in the Nuclear Suppliers Group.

India will place its civilian nuclear facilities under Agency
safeguards so as to facilitate full civil nuclear cooperation between
India and MemberStates of the Agency and to provide assurance against
withdrawal of safeguarded nuclear material from civilian use at any
time;It does not specify the list of reactors under the agency
scrutiny the unofficial says fourteen out of twenty two in steps to be
on inspection.

The civil and miltary nuclear programme is if segregated then the
clause appearing in various para gives running reactors undue *****s
to the International agency.

IAEA and GOI safeguard agreement has a clause.=95 India will place its
civilian nuclear facilities under Agency safeguards so as to
facilitate full civil nuclear cooperation between India and Member
States of the Agency and to provide assurance against withdrawal of
safeguarded nuclear material from civilian use at any time.

India may take corrective measures to ensure uninterrupted operation
of its civilian nuclear reactors in the event of disruption of foreign
fuel supplies; The above clauses does not specify the number of
reactors under IAEA scrutiny and India has chain of 22 reactors
running all over the country these reactors are running prior to the
current safeguard in question arrangment.

These exsiting reactors needs to be independent of this arrangments
being indigenously developed.The International agenccy can have *****s
to selective reactors once for their purposes of inspection assurance
being civil nuclear programme.India must have the option to withdraw
any reactors out of the purview of IAEA.

Nuke reactors errected or supplied thereafter needs to come under
their complete arragments of inspection and scrutiny.

The agreemnt does not elucidate the terms in holistic details.



NSG defunct is actually not even a structured body and has no
secretariat.

NSG was created to India's nuclear test in 1974. IAEA is integrating
India into its 'atoms for peace' framework, no logic need to continue
with the 45-nation group.

India does not expect any problem in the International Atomic Energy
Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group over getting approvals and
exemptions necessary to take forward its nuclear deal with the US and
has the powerful G-8 "on board" over the issue.

"All the countries we have spoken to are positive in their attitude
(over India's civil nuclear cooperation with the US)," National
Security Adviser M K Narayanan and Foreign Secretary ****vshankar Menon
told journalists accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his way
back from the G-8 summit in Japan.

On discussions Singh had with US President George W Bush and other G-8
leaders on the sidelines of the Summit, the officials said they do not
anticipate any problem from other countries that India has spoken to.