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...blossoming and energy-thirsty economies of India and China promise to lift the demand for oil to unprecedented heights. In this context, President Bush’s proposal to provide India with fuel for its civilian nuclear power plants is prudent and necessary. The president articulated the reasoning behind the plan while visiting New Delhi last week: “Increasing demand for oil from America, from India and China, relative to a supply that’s not keeping up with demand, causes our fuel prices to go up,” he said...
...Atomic Energy Agency board started a new meeting Monday in Vienna to discuss sending Iran's case to the UN Security Council; the U.S. plans to share with allies what it claims is new evidence that Iran's real intent is to build nuclear weapons, rather than simply a civilian energy program; and Iran defiantly warns that if the matter is referred to the Security Council, it will resume industrial-scale uranium enrichment - the activity that most concerns the West, given that it can be used both for civilian reactor fuel and to create weapons-grade material...
What's the deal? Since it tested its first nuclear weapon 32 years ago, India has been barred from importing nuclear technology, even for power plants that it needs for its exploding economy. Under the plan, India would open existing civilian nuclear reactors to international inspection, although military facilities would stay closed. In exchange, India could import technology to build reactors...
...done, the final agreement was hammered out at 10:30 a.m., less than two hours before Bush and Singh had scheduled a joint news conference and the world was expecting to know whether the deal would go through. In the end, the Indians did agree to put all future civilian reactors under international inspection and to make their safeguards permanent rather than temporary, said the senior adminstration official. For its part, the United States agreed to lobby hard for India to get nuclear fuel from the 35-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which has forbidden sales to India...
...essentially chucking a decades-long position that tells nations that if you break from proliferation agreements or test nukes-as India did again in 1998-you get isolated. "Our Congress has got to understand that it?s in our economic interests that India have a civilian nuclear power industry to help take the pressure off the global demand for energy.... And so I?m trying to think differently, not to stay stuck in the past," says Bush...