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Like USA, Russia doesn’t want to foot any costs of nuclear accident in India

Kadakin was equally clear that the international law would take priority over any domestic law that India might have, specially when it came to international nuclear commerce…..There have been some protests against the project in West Bengal, which put the future of the project in doubt

Russia asks India to mend nuke law – The Times of India, 18 Dec 10, ………Russian envoy Alexander Kadakin was more unyielding on the liability law. Russia was expecting “explanations” from the Indian side on the nuclear liability issue, he said. The current set of reactors were being built on the basis of the commercial contracts with India. But it was unclear, he said, whether the next set of reactors would be in accordance with the Indian law, passed in September. While insisting that there should not be any impediment, Kadakin said, “There is a difference between international convention and the Indian law.”……….
It’s the first time a nuclear supplier country has highlighted the diference in the Indian law and the Convention for Supplementary Compensation (CSC) that India has signed on to. He was equally clear that the international law would take priority over any domestic law that India might have, specially when it came to international nuclear commerce. But he left the ball in the Indian court. “If India wants more reactors, India’s Parliament will have to find a way around this (the liability law),” he said. ……
There have been some protests against the project in West Bengal, which put the future of the project in doubt. Kadakin said Russia was not concerned about the protests. “We are not choosing the site. We are agreeing to the site,” he said, adding that they were willing to go anywhere the Indian government wanted them to build — Orissa, Bengal or Karnataka. All three have been mentioned as possible sites…….

Russia asks India to mend nuke law – The Times of India

December 18, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general