Int'l Atomic energy agency wants India to join convention on spent fuel safety
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, March 16, IRNA
India-IAEA-Fuel Safety
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said it continues to persuade India to become a party to the joint convention on safety of spent nuclear fuel from its atomic reactors.
New Delhi has been maintaining that spent fuel from the reactors is only a resource material and not waste.
The convention is an instrument that deals with the safety of management and storage of radioactive waste and spent fuel in countries with or without nuclear power.
Visiting IAEA Deputy Director General T Taniguchi told reporters in Mumbai, India's business capital, Thursday that India is party to all safety conventions of the nuclear watchdog, except the one on safety of spent fuel and radioactive management, said a Zeenews report.
Till date, 43 countries, including Iran, the US and Russia, have signed the joint convention, said Taniguchi, who is on a four-day visit to India.
There is a global harmonization that is emerging in nuclear safety and security aspects and networking efforts are needed to support this , he said and asked New Delhi to sign the key convention.
Atomic Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman S K Sharma, who accompanied Taniguchi for his meeting with Atomic Energy Commission Chief Anil Kakodkar on Monday, said Kakodkar told the IAEA official that "We do not consider spent fuel as waste but a resource material for producing electricity".
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