India sets Nuclear deal with NSG

India is hinting that it has already reached a agreement with the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). India says that the group can suggest and recommend things India should do with regards to its nuclear policy but CANNOT make conditions or any other clauses that will force NSG to review India's nuclear status or make India stop nuclear weapons test.

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[HillTowerProductions]

Nuclear tests in labs? Is that even possible? I heard of underground and desert demolitions in controlled environment... but in a lab?

well the US is gonna give "civilian" technology which includes Uranium and the ability to reprocess it. Bush already approved, waiting for US Congress to do the same... which i do not think will happen...

[SanjoyDas1]

Also, India is already reprocessing spent fuel for plutonium at three facilities (Kalpakkam, Trombay and ???). India developed its own indigenous technology to reprocess a long time back.

Interestingly, US stopped reprocessing at its only facility, and China does not have reprocessing technology.

[SanjoyDas1]

I also forgot to add one important fact about the US "giving" India reprocessing technology.

India has a handful of reprocessing facilities at Kalpakkam and Trombay. India routinely reprocesses spent fuel.

Reprocessing is an integral part of India 3-stage plan to harness its thorium reserves (30% of the world total reserves). (Stage-1: Plutonium reprocessing; Stage-2:Fast Breeder Reactors; Stage-3 Thorium reactors.)

The US on the other hand has stopped reprocessing at its only facility.

[SanjoyDas1]

The US cannot "give" India the technology for lab tests. To simulate nuclear blasts, the only requirements are a very powerful supercomputer (which India can easily design), and recorded data from actual nuclear blasts (which the US will never give to India). To date the US has only given data from actual blasts to its trusted ally, the UK, and some say, very limited data to Israel.

[SanjoyDas1]

Oh yes, nuclear detonations can be simulated in labs. There must be enough actual test data to validate the simulations. In fact such simulations are done at Argonne National labs, as the US already has data from about 1,200 nuclear tests.

Also, the US will not give India reprocessing technologies or uranium - only some civilian reactors.

The Congress will have to approve the deal, or else GE and Westinghouse will lose out to Areva (FRA)/Rusatom (RUS)/Hitachi(JAP) on a $40 Billion deal!

[SanjoyDas1]

India's next goal should be

(i) get into the GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Partnership) as a supplier nation with reprocessing rights

(ii) Get into the NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group) as a full-fledged member

(iii) Establish itself as a full-fledged nuclear power by testing thermonuclear weapons, miniaturized warheads, and developing the Surya ICBM,

(iv) work towards genuine nuclear disarmament.

[tomms31]

the whole question..is does we have to test again?will america give the technology to test it in lab. otherwise...Tht is the real question...u dont have to test in pokran now a days...1000 of tests may be carried out in us,france and other parts of the world..in the labs with todays technology!!