ISIS has released a report, India’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Stopping Illicit Procurement and the Leakage of Technical Centrifuge Know-How, arguing that the Indian system of using tenders to acquire export controlled technology raises concerns about proliferation. Since at least 1984,…
India’s Prime Minister has released a statement on India’s plan to separate civil and military nuclear facilities. The “civilian list” will contain less than 2/3 of India’s nuclear power reactors, by MWe: Therefore our proposed Separation Plan entails identifying in…
Whether India should place its developmental Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam under IAEA safeguards is shaping up as the most contentious issue regarding the creation of a “separation plan” Inda nuclear facilities. (See: Safeguarding Breeder Reactors, January 24, 2006.) If…
A pair of interesting stories appeared over the past week relating to negotiations about which facilities India will declare “military” (and hence, exempt from safeguards) under the US-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Siddharth Varadarajan reports that the Bush Administration has dropped…
The Indian Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and US Department of Energy (DOE) concluded a four-day workshop on civilian nuclear energy in Mumbai on January 12. The U.S. was represented at the first workshop of the Civil Nuclear Working Group…
The Department of States has published the imposition of sanctions on eight firms in the Federal Register, as reported by Bill Gertz and David Sanger. I’ve updated my previous post to reflect official statements by both Indian firms that exported…
Bill Gertz reported that the United States, under the Iran Proliferation Act of 2000, will impose sanctions on nine entities—one Austrian, six Chinese and two Indian firms. The two Indian firms are Sabero Organics Gujarat Ltd and Sandhya Organics Ltd.…
Mark Hibbs reveals that Pakistan’s Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) hid orders for prohibited centrifuge components within larger “junk” orders, in hopes of diguising the sensitive item or overhwhelming export control authorities: After the late 1970s, when intelligence agencies in the…
Of the many things I wanted to do on Monday (and didn’t), one was to pop over to the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ new digs on 19th St. for The CIRUS Reactor and The U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement: Will India Declare…
A week or so ago, Dave Ruppe at Global Security Newswire reported that … More than a dozen former senior U.S. nuclear arms control and nonproliferation officials and other experts recently expressed reservations about a potential U.S.-India nuclear energy deal,…
