India gets nuclear exception waiver

[S.A.M.]

The 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) has finally given its nod to the Indo-US nuclear deal in Vienna on Saturday.

Ending three decades of isolation, India has joined the elite nuclear club. The NSG waiver has come through on the third day of the crucial talks in Vienna after push from the highest political level, the opposing countries gave their nod.

Sources say apart from External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's statement, there is no reference to ban on tests or termination of deal if India tests.


What it means for India
# Access to nuclear technology without signing CTBT, NPT
# India can buy nuclear reactors from US, Russia, France
# India will get access to nuclear fuel from world market
# India will have access to civilian space technology

India will get access to nuclear technology without having signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty or Non Proliferation Treaty. It opens up nuclear commerce for India and it can buy nuclear reactors from Russia, France and USA.

India will get access to nuclear fuel from the international market and also civilian space technology.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv...206:51:00%20PM

[hypewaders]

Congrats- that's good for India I suppose. For all your needs in seeds (even of destruction) always remember Monsanto your greedy, seedy, dear old Uncle (Sam).

[S.A.M.]

Yeah, some people are more equal than others.

[nietzschefan]

You were naughty boys and girls the last time we sold you reactors in the 60s. The Candu reactor doesn't even use weapons-grade material.

http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articl...candu-reactor/

ut on the international stage Canadian nuclear technology developed a dubious reputation: the candu, as it turned out, seemed to be the choice of dictatorial regimes and was shunned by most democracies. Authoritarian rulers in countries like South Korea and Romania were slavishly courted and the standards surrounding reactor sales were relaxed. To sell two candus to China in 1996, Chrétien dipped into the Canada Account—a fund used at the discretion of Cabinet—in order to lend $1.5 billion, on never-disclosed terms, to that burgeoning state. With Chrétien backstopping the sales, aecl had little trouble outbidding American and European competitors. And when the Sierra Club of Canada filed a federal court challenge claiming that the use of public money automatically required the Chinese reactors to be assessed under Canadian environmental law, the federal government forced them into a six-year war of legal attrition while construction was completed.

Earlier sales of the technology to Pakistan and India in the 1960s raised more troubling questions after both countries built nuclear weapons. Canada suspended nuclear trade with India after it used Canadian technology to develop a bomb in the 1970s. These sanctions remained in place until last summer, when then—Prime Minister Paul Martin quietly agreed to renew relations with India despite its refusal to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. As always, aecl seems to have got its way with the government. “I think they finally decided that for good and sufficient self-interest we should do this,” said Reid Morden, a former aecl president.

[S.A.M.]

The Biharis are sputtering.

Just say NO to Indo-US nuclear deal
http://www.bihartimes.com/viewersvoi...July/vv53.html

Of course, this is a mineral rich state that is perpetually broke.

[Nasor]

India is a secular, democratic nation that's surrounded on two sides by hostile, nuclear-armed neighbors. It would be pretty stupid to not expect them to develop nuclear weapons. They actually have a far, far better claim for needing them than, say, the U.K.

[nietzschefan]

Yes that's true and Canada has been hotly and justifiably criticized, for (naively)providing the technology to India and Pakistan to annihilate each other.

On the other hand it might have been a ploy to cut down on immigration from those two nations...

[John99]

France gets 80 percent of it's power from nuclear.

[hypewaders]

Well, they may not have a word for "entrepeneur" (as W informed us) but at least they can pronounce "nucléaire".

[chuuush]

I really die to know what is the basis for such discrimination against nations. For example, they give India a special right while deprive Pakistan from it, and these two are hostile nuclear regimes between which a balance is a must. What makes some countries more deserving than the others?

[hypewaders]

Corporate fealty.

[CheskiChips]

Well with India's population, any other means of energy production would be extremely damaging to the atmosphere..

[chuuush]

Well with India's population, any other means of energy production would be extremely damaging to the atmosphere..

and you think you could dupe your own self with such a reasoning!? I mean since when has the U.S. became so sensitive towards the atmosphere!!

[CheskiChips]

and you think you could dupe your own self with such a reasoning!? I mean since when has the U.S. became so sensitive towards the atmosphere!!

...I was simply saying I was glad India was going to be proactive. Why are you insulting America after I've given compliment to India? Allowing them to build nuclear facilities will be very good for India, they're going to need all the help they can get with the population boom they're going to have.