Brahma Chellaney - http://chellaney.spaces.live.com
Mint, August 16, 2010
Source: http://www.livemint.com

The quiet signing of the reprocessing agreement on 30 July has completed the last remaining bilateral element of the nuclear deal with the U.S. The multilateral elements are not only complete, but also being implemented. For example, India already has brought 16 of its nuclear facilities under permanent international inspection - a number scheduled to progressively go up to cover two-thirds of all Indian nuclear installations within four years. In addition, India is set to shut down by this year-end its main military-production workhorse, the Cirus reactor - the biggest cumulative contributor of weapons-grade plutonium to the country’s stockpile.