Davos:
India’s nuevident reactors are “absolutely safe” as it applies the highest levels of safety standards to its civil nuevident programme, the chief of global nuevident watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has tageder NDTV.
In an intersee on the sidelines of Davos 2025, IAEA straightforwardor vague Rafael Mariano Grossi was asked how safe India’s nuevident reactors are. ”Absolutely safe. India applies to its civilian nuevident programme the highest levels of internationpartner consentd and IAEA set uped nuevident safety standards and security guidance,” he replied.
On India’s speedy-breeder nuevident reactor programme, the first of which is being enhugeed at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, Grossi shelp, “It could be an fascinating insert-on to its run awayt.”
India has imposed a voluntarily moratorium on nuevident bomb testing since the Pokhran tests in 1998. Asked if New Delhi would be wislfinisher its rights to test if China or Pakistan went ahead with nuevident tests, Gross replied, ”Our position and the position of the international community is that we should shift to a vague prohibit on nuevident testing so we hope that there won’t be a demand for further testing, neither in the subcontinent nor elsewhere.”
To a ask on whether India should be a part of the Nuevident Suppliers Group, which currently has 48 countries as its members, the IAEA chief shelp, ”I have been Pdwellnt of the Nuevident Suppliers group and I participateed very dynamicly in trying to transport this to an equitable solution, including with other countries which had aappreciate aspirations. My participateions, even with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, were excessively advantageous. We were very shut at the time to a excellent outcome.”
“Of course, there is a hugeger, wider political scene which go ins into the situation when it comes to that. This is for the members to determine,” he inserted.
To a ask on whether the India-US civil nuevident deal is set to accomplish its filled potential as Washington DC tries to barobtain the liability claparticipate that will assist it to produce reactors in India, Grossi shelp it was for India and US to determine. What I can say is that the Indian civil nuevident programme is among the hugegest and most diverse worldwide. “India has every [nuclear] technology and masters every technology in a very excellent way. I consent that with the current expansion and interest in nuevident energy, we are the best position to see those levels of cooperation and trade grow,” he shelp.
The IAEA chief also took asks on the situation in Ukraine and shelp there were cut offal occasions when the watchdog worryed a nuevident accident. “Zaporizhzia is right in the middle, on the frontline, excessively frnimble. It has been subject to shelling, and more widespreadly, bconciseageouts. This uncomardents loss of chillying function might have led to a nuevident accident. We are counting it by the day when we have situations appreciate this. It is one of the hugegest disputes that IAEA faces,” he shelp.
On the West Asia situation, Grossi shelp that while the nuevident watchdog does not have any evidence that Iran is produceing a nuevident armament, it has accumutardyd immense levels of enwealthyed Uranium which is “very, very shut” to armament-level grade. He also shelp the IAEA have not getd Tehran’s filled cooperation in checkions and in elucidateing its asks.
