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2008-12-18 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Steve White 2008-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Only a real moron would attack a nu--mmmm, nevermind.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-12-18 14:25|| 2008-12-18 14:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Kalpakkam at Chennai (Madras) and BARC at Mumbai (Bombay) are the two main strategic nuclear development centers in India.
Kalpakkam has a reprocessing facility attached to it and probably fabricates weapon pits.

Chennai: The declaration of a no-fly zone above Kalpakkam up to an altitude of 10,000 feet and within a radius of 10 km comes as no surprise to the strategic community, as the key atomic energy installation has been identified by India as a non-civilian facility and will, therefore, not open for international safeguards.

In both the civilian nuclear cooperation agreement signed with the United States and the safeguards agreement it entered into with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), India has agreed to separate its facilities into civilian installations and military or strategic ones. The civilian facilities alone will come under international safeguards and be open to inspections.

While identifying 14 thermal reactors offered for IAEA safeguards between 2006 and 2014, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had specifically ruled out opening up the facilities in Kalpakkam, about 80 km from here, where the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research is located.

"India is not in a position to accept safeguards on the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) and the Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR), both located at Kalpakkam. The fast breeder programme is at the R & D stage and its technology will take time to mature and reach an advanced stage of development," said his statement on the implementation of India's separation plan as envisaged in the Indo-US joint statement of July 18, 2005.

Posted by john frum 2008-12-18 15:40|| 2008-12-18 15:40|| Front Page Top

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