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USA desperate to sell, allows India to reprocess nuclear fuel

The Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative has facilitated significant new commercial opportunities across India’s multi-billion dollar nuclear energy market, including the designation of two nuclear reactor park sites for U.S. technology

India Gets US Nod To Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel,  GantDaily.com, August 1, 2010  Tejinder Singh –Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The United States on Friday gave India a go-ahead on reprocessing of American nuclear spent fuel by India, marking the final steps in terms of implementation of the landmark civil nuclear deal between the two countries.

The two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will enable reprocessing by India of the U.S. obligated nuclear material at a new national reprocessing facility to be established by India, dedicated to the reprocessing of safeguarded nuclear material under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards…………

Previously, U.S. had extended such reprocessing consent only to the European Union (EURATOM) and Japan, the statement noted.

“The Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative has facilitated significant new commercial opportunities across India’s multi-billion dollar nuclear energy market, including the designation of two nuclear reactor park sites for U.S. technology in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat,” the state department said.

India Gets US Nod To Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel | GantDaily.com

August 2, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics international, technology | antinuclear, enriched, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, nuclear wastes, reactors, recycling, reprocessing