The U.S.-India nuclear deal was initiated through a framework
agreement signed by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S.
President Bush in July 2005. India, at the instigation of Washington,
agreed to separate its civilian and military nuclear production
facilities, and place all civilian production facilities under the
inspection regime of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
in return for U.S. economic, technological, and military cooperation.
The nuclear deal, which took three years to complete, is officially
aimed at promoting India's access to uranium and to civilian nuclear
technology, through enlarged importation of both. Whereas nuclear
energy contributed a reported 2.5 percent of India's energy
requirements in 2007, the deal is expected to boost the contribution
of the nuclear sector to India's electricity supply, without reducing
India's primary dependence on coal. From its very start, the
U.S.-India nuclear deal has generated huge controversies, both in
India and internationally. The intent here is to lay bare the
implications of the deal for the creation of waste, while putting
aside, for the moment, other important controversies associated with
the nuclear agreement.
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