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Spread of nuclear technology in region worries India

comments came amid reports that Beijing and Islamabad were in talks to set up a new giant one gigawatt atomic power plant in Pakistan.

India concerned over N-proliferation in neighbourhood: Rao PTI IBN Live News ,Sep 21,2010Boston, Amid reports of Sino-Pak plans to set up a new giant atomic power plant in Pakistan, India has said it has been affected by clandestine nuclear proliferation in its neighbourhood and is concerned about the possibility of atomic terrorism in the region. “We believe that the challenges of nuclear terrorism and nuclear security have to be addressed. We have been affected by clandestine nuclear proliferation in our neighbourhood. We are naturally concerned about the possibility of nuclear terrorism given the security situation in our neighbourhood,” Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said while delivering a lecture at the Harvard University yesterday…….
Her comments came amid reports that Beijing and Islamabad were in talks to set up a new giant one gigawatt atomic power plant in Pakistan. Qiu Jiangang, Vice President of the state-run China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), which has already helped in building Pakistan’s main nuclear facility at Chashma in Punjab province, was quoted as saying by the ‘Wall Street Journal’ that his company was in talks to set up another giant nuclear plant in Pakistan….
India concerned over N-proliferation in neighbourhood: Rao, IBN Live News

September 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics international | nuclear, nuclear weapons