PM-NUCLEAR 2 LST

Fuel supply assurances will not seize under the
Indo-Russian civil nuclear agreement if there is any end of
cooperation unlike similar atomic pacts with the US and other
countries, the sources said.

Although the two countries have a nuke pact, it is
largely confined to the construction of nuclear sites in
India.
Among other highlights of the proposed agreement are
built-in reprocessing consent rights for all future Russian
reactors supplied to India. At present, Russian consent has
been separately detailed in the Kudankulam agreement.
The new pact also contains provisions that could allow
transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology subject to
certain conditions, sources said.
The two countries signed last year an agreement
providing for setting up of four additional Russian nuclear
plants in Kudankulam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and
some other places whose venues were to be decided later.
That agreement was inked during Medvedev's visit here
last year.
Russia is already building two nuclear power units in
Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu and is to build four more reactors
there under an agreement signed during Medvedev's visit. India
has identified an additional site at Haripur in the eastern
state of West Bengal for Russia to build another nuclear
plant. PTI GSN
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