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2006-03-30 India-Pakistan

Russian argument to India against the Nuke Deal with the US

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Posted by 3dc 2006-03-30 01:35|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You got Iran to deal with, Russia, and the US will go with India. Better get the red-line drawings turned into as-builts for Bushehr before it is returned to the earth from which it came.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-03-30 02:40|| 2006-03-30 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the fear of GE and Westinghouse.
India is not likely to buy Russian VVER units when GE offers its LWRs.

Cirus was excluded from the list of 14 local sites India vowed to open for the International Atomic Energy AuthorityM

Wrong. India will shut down the CIRRUS reactor.

CIRRUS was a sore point with Canada and India wants to buy Canadian Uranium. India therefore had to placate Canada, NOT the US.

Problem was that CIRRUS is located inside the BARC weapon complex and no IAEA inspector will be alowed inside BARC.

Solution - Indians will just shut down CIRRUS, and Canadians will ask no questions about the Plutonium derived from CIRRUS over the last few decades.

the Indians might face big problems in terms of the secrecy of their military effort and the availability of dual-use technologies for peaceful purposes.

Indians will not allow IAEA inside any of their military nuclear complexes.
IAEA will inspect the civilian plants only.

India has had decades of experience working with the IAEA. Four of India's reactors are under safeguards, two more under construction will also be under safeguards.
One of India's Plutonium reprocessing plants is placed under safeguards whenever spent fuel from a safeguarded reactor is being processed. Its nuclear fuel complex is likewise put under safeguards whenever fuel rods are being fabricated for a safeguarded plant.

Albright from ISIS has already named Indian Rare Earth Ltd. of Bombay as the first potential victim of U.S. proliferation action

Albright alleges that Indian government tenders for equipment (to local Indian manufacturers) published in Indian newspapers amount to proliferation.
No wonder he could find no WMD in Iraq.

RMP at Ratahili will never be opened to IAEA. It will receive no foreign fuel or equipment.

It is where Indian centrifuge cascades are located. Uranium is being enriched there for use in naval reactors (for a nuclear submarine being built at Vizag naval base).

It may also be where U233 is separated.
India apparently tested a weapon using a U233 pit and its Thorium reserves can be used to breed U233 for weapons.

The comparison with Iraq is absurd.
When a country has a population one sixth that of the entire planet, a large professional volunteer military that can actually fight and win wars and a huge internal economy, it gets to do things denied to rogue arab regimes.

Posted by john 2006-03-30 08:37|| 2006-03-30 08:37|| Front Page Top

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