tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post5687906549556271077..comments2024-03-01T13:51:47.721+05:30Comments on Reality, one bite at a time: Dr. A.N. Prasad on the Indo-U.S. nuclear dealSiddharth Varadarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721228307097170092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-6093395786759122292007-08-08T23:00:00.000+05:302007-08-08T23:00:00.000+05:30The agreement says that the dedicated safeguarded ...The agreement says that the dedicated safeguarded reprocessing facility will reprocess all "foreign fuel". Also the deal clearly states that no reporcessing, enrichment TECHNOLOGY will be given to India. This is fair enough from the perspective of US law since US doesn't give this to any nucelar weapons state. <BR/>But this also implies that all reprocessing in that dedicated facility will be done with Indian reprocessing/enrichment technology that has been developed indigenously . Now this implies that we are going to "show" all those technology to the open world because that facility will be under supervision. <BR/>Between now and the time and the reporcessing facilty comes I hope the intellectual property rights all those Indian technology is properly protected otherwise the separation doesn't make sense strategically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-91756739852856810772007-07-22T09:40:00.000+05:302007-07-22T09:40:00.000+05:30Indian express http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday...Indian express <BR/>http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/206196.html<BR/>says a dedicated safeguarded reprocessing facilty for US-spent fuel but what happens to non-US spent fuel ? It says a separate agreement for reprocessing US origin spent fuel - separate agreement from this current deal ??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-3476048651999176392007-07-21T11:53:00.000+05:302007-07-21T11:53:00.000+05:30There are many things unclear - most American medi...There are many things unclear - <BR/><BR/>most American media state that US is not willing to allow " reprocessing of spent fuel with US supplied components"<BR/><BR/>What about reprocessing non-US spent fuel with non-US supplied components and all other permutations and combinations of <BR/>US and non-US before "spent fuel"<BR/>and "components" ?<BR/><BR/>Will all those permutations be allowed in that one single reprocessing facility ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-20622914199609706062007-07-20T09:00:00.000+05:302007-07-20T09:00:00.000+05:30Anon- Hope this answers your confusion:Campaign mo...Anon- Hope this answers your confusion:<BR/><BR/>Campaign mode: Facility is supervised only when safeguarded spent fuel is processed. After the input-output balances are verified, the IAEA stops monitoring. Plant is free to reprocess unsafeguarded fuel without anybody counting the numbers or seeing what goes where. Example is PREFRE. When RAPS fuel is reprocessed, the IAEA is there. When Dhruva spent fuel is throug-putted, they are not.<BR/><BR/>Permanent/full-time safeguards: The IAEA monitoring is 24x7 and sensors monitor everything that goes in and out. Example is the Plutonium Fuel Facility in Japan.<BR/><BR/>International supervision: It is not clear what this means. Safeguards=international supervisionn. So perhaps by "international supervision", the U.S. means 'IAEA-plus' safeguards, something the PM has said India will not accept. (There is no question of American inspectors roaming on [our] nuclear facilities", he told Parliament in August 2006.Siddharth Varadarajanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07721228307097170092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-27829042357109645472007-07-20T06:02:00.000+05:302007-07-20T06:02:00.000+05:30Slightly confused -Wrt to reprocessing there seems...Slightly confused -<BR/>Wrt to reprocessing there seems to have arisen three kinds of safeguards<BR/>(a) Campaign mode ( as mentioned in the article )<BR/>(b) Permanent/Full time safeguards<BR/>with inernational supervision<BR/>(c) Permanent/Full time safeguards without international supervision<BR/>as mentioned in the following rediff article<BR/>http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/20ndeal.htm<BR/>I was always under the impression that meaning of term "safeguards" for a facility as envisaged in US-India meant international inspection and or supervision.<BR/><BR/>What is the meaning of permanent safeguards without international supervision as in the above rediff article ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com