IndianExpress.com :: Close reading the IAEA safeguards

IndianExpress.com :: Close reading the IAEA safeguards:


"The DAE does not want a repetition of the experience of Tarapur Atomic Power Station, built with US assistance in the 1960s, where Washington and later Paris had reneged on its promises to supply fuel for the TAPS. Contrary to the attempts to impute a variety of motives to India, New Delhi’s nuclear behaviour has been absolutely responsible. Despite the denial of international cooperation, India never pulled the TAPS out of the IAEA safeguards.

For nearly sixty years, the principal objective of the DAE has been to mobilise modern science and technology in the service of national development. This has been hampered by a series of international nuclear sanctions against India since 1974. The Indo-US deal of July 2005 outlined a broad basis for India’s re-entry into the global nuclear order. The safeguards agreement with the IAEA was about translating it into a honourable and sustainable framework for India’s nuclear cooperation with the international community. That is precisely what the DAE has negotiated with considerable skill."