AEC Chief declares "Nobody can stop India from pursuing nuke prog"
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Aug 17, IRNA
India-Nuke-AEC Chief
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Anil Kakodkar has declared that no country, including the United States, can stop India from pursuing its independent nuclear program strategic or civilian.
Speaking to newspersons after inaugurating the new premises of TIFR's Centre for Fundamental Research for Applicable Mathematics in Bangalore, he said there was no clause banning any new nuclear test by India in the civil nuclear agreement between the country and the US, Doordarshan News portal reported here.
"India will not entertain any hindrance to its independent nuclear program. We are able to carry out our autonomous strategic nuclear program. Keeping all this if we get additionalities in nuclear power through civil nuclear cooperation, it is a welcome sign", Kakodkar asserted.
Further Kakodkar said that the "nuclear fuel and technology transfer deal with the US does not put any roadblocks in our programs and the deal meets all our requirements."
Questioned on the curbs on recycling the spent fuel, he said the country had its own nuclear deterrent norms and there would be no change in it.
"We have to be able to reprocess and recycle spent fuel as it offers much larger energy and also from the waste management point of view, it is important that most of the material is recycled." "We must be able to reprocess any fuel and the agreement with the US provides for this," he added.
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