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Rajya Sabha
The Minister of State for External Affairs, Shri Rao Inderjit Singh informed the Rajya Sabha today that India has formulated a comprehensive indigenous three-stage nuclear power programme to expand its nuclear power generating capacity to 20,000 MW by the year 2020. International cooperation can supplement our indigenous efforts. However, at present the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) guidelines prevent trade in nuclear technology and materials with India. According to these guidelines such items can be supplied to a non-nuclear-weapon State only when that State has brought into force an agreement with the IAEA requiring the application of safeguards on all its current and future peaceful activities.
The Minister further said that the Joint Statement issued during the recent visit of Prime Minister to the US, states inter-alia “the United States will work with friends and allies to adjust international regimes to enable full civil nuclear energy cooperation and trade with India, including but not limited to expeditious consideration of fuel supplies for safeguarded nuclear reactors at Tarapur. In the meantime, the United States will encourage its partners to also consider this request expeditiously”.
The Minister was replying to a question by Sh. B.K. Hariprasad.
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