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• India Notes NEI on the US-India Agreement

  NEI has been supportive of the US-India nuclear trade agreement and worked to help it along its winding trail through the international and national thickets where it could. The Indians have noticed this, as this story from NDTV demonstrates: Nuclear Energy Institute, the policy arm of US nuclear energy industry, has welcomed the Congressional ratification of the historic US India Civilian Nuclear... Posted Oct 03 2008, 10:57 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, India

• U.S. - India Agreement Passes in Senate

  Last night, the Senate voted 86-13 to approve the U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement ( H.R.7081 ). The deal, agreed to in principle in July 2005, passed in the House last week , 298 - 117. Here's a breakout of the Senate vote. Alabama : Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea Alaska : Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Stevens (R-AK), Yea Arizona : Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas : Lincoln (D-AR), Yea... Posted Oct 02 2008, 09:36 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India

• Indian-U.S. Deal Inches Forward

  Inching, yes, but given that congress has been otherwise engaged during the last week, we'll take it : The US House of Representatives has approved a landmark nuclear deal with India, removing one of two final obstacles to a foreign policy victory for the Bush administration. While the House approved the deal 298-117 on Saturday, it still faces a hurdle in the Senate. Several senators oppose the... Posted Sep 29 2008, 02:22 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India

• US-India 123 Agreement Gains Support

  With conversations in DC being dominated by the federal bailout of the financial industry, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the White House later this week runs the risk of being overshadowed. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking notice; sending this letter to members of Congress. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business federation representing more than three... Posted Sep 23 2008, 02:16 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India

• Dueling Editorials: The USA-India Agreement

  The New York Times and the Washington Post have both put up editorials on the pending agreement to allow the India and the United States to share nuclear technologies. The Times doesn't like it : The nuclear agreement was a bad idea from the start. Mr. Bush and his team were so eager for a foreign policy success that they gave away the store. They extracted no promise from India to stop producing... Posted Sep 12 2008, 03:00 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India, nuclear suppliers group

• The I Edition of Global Nuclear Notes: India, Iran, Italy

  Some updates of stories we've been following here: Italy has found a partner for its nuclear ambitions. The winner: Great Britain. Here's British PM Gordon Brown: "We both agreed that nuclear power can play an important part (in achieving) our shared objectives on climate change and energy security." And his Italian opposite number, Silvio Burlusconi: "We do hope that there is... Posted Sep 10 2008, 02:07 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India, New Nuclear Plants, Italy, Iran, Great Britain

• Nuclear Suppliers Group Approved the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

  Dan Yurman has the story : It took the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) nearly three days of protracted negotiations in Vienna to reach agreement. Austria, New Zealand, and Ireland, were the last three countries holding out on approval due to reservations about granting a waiver to India since it has not signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. ... Austria, New Zealand and Ireland lifted their... Posted Sep 07 2008, 09:45 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India, nuclear suppliers group

• Where Are We At with the US-India Nuclear Deal?

  In what has seemed like forever since the agreement was first initiated (July 2005), today could be the day that the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement lives or dies. It's up to the Nuclear Suppliers Group to give the thumbs up or thumbs down and Dan Yurman will be following it closely . Stop by his blog every couple of hours to find updates to the status of the deal. Read More... Posted Sep 05 2008, 10:23 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India, nuclear suppliers group

• India Comes in from the Cold

  India has been suffering as a nuclear rogue state over the last several years, as it has not signed the non-proliferation agreements and has in fact built nuclear weaponry – from their perspective, to ensure parity with neighbors Pakistan and especially China. India has a policy of never using nuclear weapons offensively but only if nuclear missiles are hurled its way – seems very cold war, doesn’t... Posted Jul 23 2008, 10:29 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India

• Indian Government Receives Vote of Confidence

  Indian state television, Doordarshan , is reporting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has received a vote of confidence by the parliament. The vote was close: 253 for, 232 against, with 2 abstentions. Had Singh's administration failed to receive the vote, early elections would have been called for this fall, likely scuttling the nuclear energy agreement between the United States... Posted Jul 22 2008, 10:21 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India

• India Raises Nuclear Generation Target

  From The Telegraph (Calcutta): The government is planning to raise the target for nuclear power generation to 40,000MW by 2030 from 36,000MW. The Prime Minister’s energy co-ordination council had chalked out a plan to add 16,000MW of the power by 2020 and another 20,000MW over the next 10 years. Vilas Muttemwar, the minister for non-conventional energy and a member of the council, told The Telegraph... Posted Aug 27 2007, 11:04 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: India

• Australia to Sell Uranium to India

  From Nuc Net: Australia has decided to change its foreign policy to allow the export of uranium to India, but only subject to a number of “strict conditions”, prime minister John Howard has announced. In a statement today Mr Howard said conditions for uranium exports to India, which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), include: • Conclusion of a suitable safeguards agreement between... Posted Aug 16 2007, 11:19 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Uranium, India