India is soon expected to announce by when it would sign a country-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA, under which 14 reactors in all will be brought under its ambit.
India is soon expected to announce by when it would sign a country-specific safeguards agreement with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), under which 14 reactors in all will be brought under its ambit.
"We are trying to complete all necessary steps. After a couple of days, we will announce the steps we have taken towards operationalisation of the nuclear deal along with the details on the signing of India Specific Safeguards Agreement (ISSA) with the IAEA," Ravi Grover, director, strategic planning Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and a key negotiator, who is leaving for Vienna on Tuesday night, said.
Once the ISSA is signed, India would place six reactors - two units 1 and 2 of Tarapur in Maharashtra, units 1 and 2 of Kota, Rajasthan and two units at Koodankulam, Tamil Nadu - which are under IAEA safeguards, under the ISSA, Grover said.
Grover said that besides the IAEA, the DAE is in talks with the US, France and Russia with whom civil nuclear agreements have been signed.
"We are also in talks with Kazakhstan with whom we signed an MOU for uranium fuel last week," he said.
On August 1, last year, the IAEA Board of governors had approved the ISSA and authorised director general Mohammed ElBaradei to work out the details and the mandatory additional protocol requirements, and subsequently implement it.
ElBaradei had said according to Indian separation plan (civilian and military), a total of 14 reactors, including the six under IAEA, will be placed under safeguards by 2014.
On steps taken for legislation for civil nuclear liability, dhairman Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar said, "the development of legislation is a long process. We are quite advanced on it presently and it should be done soon."
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