Pak Gets IAEA Clearance for 2 Nuclear Reactors

[Veeru]

Pak gets clearance for 2 nuclear reactors from IAEA

There is reason for India to worry as Islamabad has received the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the safeguards agreement to cover their two new nuclear reactors.

Now this deal would pave the way for setting up two more China-supplied nuclear reactors in the Chashma nuclear complex. What is significant is that the deal has gone through despite objections by certain members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).

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If manmohan singh have even little shame he should resign immediately. But he's of thick skin anti India and pro pakistan.

He will ignore all this and his boss the US of A because USA will not be harmed by nukes from pakistan at present.

 

[Last Hope]

PAKISTAN TO BUILD TWO NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS!​

BEIJING: China has agreed to build two new civilian nuclear reactors in Pakistan, according to Chinese companies and officials in Islamabad and Beijing, UK newspaper Financial Times said Thursday.

The decision to supply reactors to Pakistan reflects China’s growing diplomatic confidence. It also reflects Beijing’s ambition to become a global supplier of nuclear energy and underscores its view of Pakistan as a prized south Asian strategic partner.

The new deal with Pakistan, which has yet to be publicly announced, poses a dilemma for the US administration of President Barack Obama, which wants Chinese support for new sanctions on Iran but which does not want to weaken the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Non-proliferation is one of Washington’s main foreign policy goals.

China began building a nuclear reactor in Chashma in Punjab province in 1991 and work on a second rector began in 2005 and is expected to be completed next year. Under the new agreement, Chinese companies will build at least two new 650-MW reactors at Chashma, FT said.

A Pakistani government official familiar with the discussions with China said on Wednesday: “Our Chinese brothers have once again lived up to our expectations. They have agreed to continue cooperating with us in the nuclear energy field.”

In a statement on its website, China National Nuclear Corporation said that the Chinese and Pakistan governments had signed an agreement to finance the construction of the two new reactors in February. Last year, Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research and Design Institute said it had been hired to design the two new reactors.

Diplomats in China said they had been told that Beijing has given its formal approval to the deal, although they cautioned that there could still be last-minute hitches in the talks between the two governments.

Officials of two nations that are members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group said they had yet to be formally informed by the Chinese that the supply of new reactors was going ahead.

Mark Hibbs, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's nuclear policy programme, said that China had decided to go ahead with the deal because “for political reasons it felt Pakistan should be compensated in some way for the US-India nuclear deal”. The deal between Washington and New Delhi facilitated nuclear co-operation even though India has not signed the NPT.

“After the dust settled on the US-India nuclear deal, China gravitated towards a position that it will support nuclear commerce if it benefits Chinese industry,” he added.

The Obama administration could well not oppose China’s new nuclear deal with Pakistan, Hibbs said, because it wanted to keep Pakistan engaged in Afghanistan and gain Chinese support over Iran’s nuclear programme. He also said the US would find it difficult to oppose China’s support for Pakistan after signing the US-India civil nuclear agreement.

Western diplomats in Islamabad said the US was likely to accept China's growing role as a supplier of nuclear power to Pakistan.

The agreement comes as Pakistan faces long electricity cuts as a result of under-investment in the energy sector. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani last week urged Pakistanis not to damage public property in protests against the power shortage.


China to build 2 N-reactors in Pakistan,3/9/2011 8:54:23 PM

They got a green signal today.

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[Secret Service]

Why worry to India ...?? its happening in Pakistan...

 

[Respect4Respect01]

idk if mr manmohan is Pro-Pakistani, but ur 4 sure Anti-Pakistani,

i read ur posts and then laugh n idgaf, im just gonna reply today,

when india makes nukes that's good, and when Pakistan makes nukes u start crying,

its like only india is threatened by Pak nukes, isn't india threat to Pakistan.

so stop crying my friend n stop hating.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Awesome news.

The Obama administration could well not oppose China’s new nuclear deal with Pakistan, Hibbs said, because it wanted to keep Pakistan engaged in Afghanistan and gain Chinese support over Iran’s nuclear programme. He also said the US would find it difficult to oppose China’s support for Pakistan after signing the US-India civil nuclear agreement.

Good timing then, lol.

 

[Last Hope]

Awesome.



Good timing then, lol.

I would rather say good game or good politics!
Using someone to step over other, for your personal gain is pure politics!

 

[Frankenstein]

Manmohan Singh is the best president India ever had, how could be he anti India and pro Pakistan, after all he made Indian economy one of the best in the world?

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Just to clarify this for some members - the Khushab complex of reactors is not under IAEA safeguards nor has Pakistan applied for them in that case. The Khushab reactors are Plutonium fueled reactors and designed to produce material for Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, and therefore are not under IAEA safeguards.

This IAEA approval is for the two new reactors at the Chashma complex that have been the subject of discussion for over a year now - Chashma 3 and Chashma 4. This approval is significant since the construction of these reactors was strongly opposed by the US and India as being in 'violation of the NSG Charter', despite the fact that the US forced through an NSG exemption for India that was itself a 'violation of the NSG charter', given that the NSG prohibits nuclear trade with nations that are not signatories of the NPT, and India is not a signatory.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

IAEA approves safeguards for new Pakistani reactors​

Siddharth Varadarajan

Ignoring NSG guidelines, China gets approval for transfer of Chashma-3 and 4

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday gave its approval to a safeguards agreement for two new reactors that Pakistan said China was building for it at Chashma.

The ‘Type-66' agreement for the two reactors approved by the IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors was identical to similar agreements already in place for Chashma-1 and Chashma-2. Though Tuesday's agreement was approved unanimously, the fact that not a single board member or regional grouping chose to make the usual customary reference to it in their remarks to the chair is being seen in diplomatic circles as a reflection of the disquiet that the Chinese initiative has caused internationally.

India is a member of the IAEA Board and gave its assent for the same reason the other members did — the agreement was of a standard type and there is nothing in the statute of the agency which prohibits the transfer of nuclear reactors to a country like Pakistan, which, like India, is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). But China is a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and the rules of the cartel — many of whose 46 members also sit on the IAEA Board — expressly ban the sale of nuclear equipment to countries that are outside the NPT and do not place all their nuclear facilities under international supervision.

In 2008, China joined other NSG members in approving a standalone exemption from the cartel's guidelines for India. That approval — which came after more than three years of difficult negotiations between New Delhi, Washington and other nuclear players — was part of a package deal in which the Indian side undertook a number of disarmament, arms control and export control obligations.

Though Beijing is known to have shared nuclear technology with Islamabad in the past — including the know-how and components for nuclear weapons — those transfers pre-dated its own membership of the NPT and NSG and were not prohibited as such.

The latest safeguards agreement, however, is the first formal indication by China that it is willing to disregard its international obligations on nuclear matters — in this instance, its commitment to abide by NSG guidelines — when it comes to Pakistan.

Ever since word of Chashma-3 and 4 first surfaced in 2009, Beijing refused to confirm or deny the intended transfer. With the ground-breaking over and concrete for the new reactors being poured, the subject was raised by a number of countries at the NSG plenary meeting in Christchurch last year. There, according to diplomatic sources, China parried all questions on the transfer by reiterating that its nuclear cooperation with Pakistan would be subject to IAEA safeguards.

Although the NSG guidelines allow countries to finish nuclear projects that are already in the pipeline at the time they join the cartel, Chashma-3 and 4 do not meet that criteria. Indeed, when it was admitted to the NSG at the Goteberg plenary in May 2004, China only spoke of Chashma-2 as “ongoing supply.”

The NSG will meet again in the Netherlands later this year where the Chashma transfers will likely be brought up again. But with China refusing to budge, the United States and other leading members of the suppliers club will have little option but to ignore this violation of their guidelines.

The Hindu : News / National : IAEA approves safeguards for new Pakistani reactors

 

[KS]

idk if mr manmohan is Pro-Pakistani, but ur 4 sure Anti-Pakistani,

i read ur posts and then laugh n idgaf, im just gonna reply today,

when india makes nukes that's good, and when Pakistan makes nukes u start crying,

its like only india is threatened by Pak nukes, isn't india threat to Pakistan.

so stop crying my friend n stop hating.

It is NOT crying. India should be genuinely concerned with this as China-Pak have a history of covert nuclear weapon assistance.

And I too remember you guys crying when the NSG granted unilateral waiver for India.

 

[Imran Khan]

It is NOT crying. India should be genuinely concerned with this as China-Pak have a history of covert nuclear weapon assistance.

And I too remember you guys crying when the NSG granted unilateral waiver for India.

waipons lollllllllllllllllllllllllllll hahahahahahahah as we have no waipons or we have less numbers ? damn we need seriusly powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

It is NOT crying. India should be genuinely concerned with this as China-Pak have a history of covert nuclear weapon assistance.

That concern should be directed at the Khushab nuclear complex then, which is central to the expansion and modernization plans of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

By focusing on these light water NPP's planned for power generation, you are barking up the wrong tree, and in essence illustrating that India stands against the development and progress of Pakistan.

And I too remember you guys crying when the NSG granted unilateral waiver for India.

Pakistan's concerns over the NSG waiver to India were, and are, that it was a discriminatory waiver. Our official protestations revolved around the argument that there should not be arbitrary and discriminatory exemptions allowed to certain 'favored nations', but that there should be a proper and standard process open to all.

Beyond that Pakistan's concerns over the waiver, from the military perspective, revolved around the fact that the waiver would now allow India to legally import Uranium fuel for its reactors from other nations producing it, and therefore free its own uranium production to be diverted towards expanding its nuclear weapons stockpile, whereas Pakistan would continue to be prohibited from importing Uranium from other nations, and would have to use its domestic reserves for both civilian and military uses.

As you can see, Pakistan can make rational and valid arguments to support its arguments against the arbitrary and discriminatory waiver given to India, but I have yet to see a valid and rational argument against the construction of new light water NPP's by China and Pakistan for power generation.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

It is NOT crying. India should be genuinely concerned with this as China-Pak have a history of covert nuclear weapon assistance.

And I too remember you guys crying when the NSG granted unilateral waiver for India.

Thts a lie ... we demanded equality n opposed injustice.... we never opposed it........ lol abt crying i just remembered an incidence when indians were literally crying in front of white house against arms sales to Pakistan.

Abt ur so called crying or concerns:

 

[khurasaan1]

It is NOT crying. India should be genuinely concerned with this as China-Pak have a history of covert nuclear weapon assistance.

And I too remember you guys crying when the NSG granted unilateral waiver for India.

Hey ..why u guyz are jealous then...if we r doing something good...

 

[truthseeker2010]

Why are our neighbors worried, relax guys these are for power generation!