India’s Nuclear Perversion: A Fast-Breeder Reactor At Any Cost?

India’s Nuclear Perversion: A Fast-Breeder Reactor At Any Cost?

For all the praises it sings of breeder reactors, there is one reason for its attraction to the PFBR that the DAE does not talk much about, except indirectly. Consider this interview by the Indian Express, a national newspaper, with Anil Kakodkar, then-secretary of the DAE, about the US-India nuclear deal: “Both from the point of view of maintaining long-term energy security and for maintaining the minimum credible deterrent, the fast breeder programme just cannot be put on the civilian list.
Citizens’ Statement Condemning the Indian Government’s Abstention from the UN Vote on Nuclear Ban

Citizens’ Statement Condemning the Indian Government’s Abstention from the UN Vote on Nuclear Ban

We, as citizens of India strongly condemn the abstention by the Indian government from the UN vote to ban all nuclear weapons. This irresponsible diplomatic gesture goes against much of our own history when we were in the forefront of the diplomatic effort to promote comprehensive nuclear disarmament with an emphasis to go beyond the limitations of the Non-proliferation Treaty(NPT). India today stands on the wrong side of the history when the overwhelming majority of nations in the UN voted for negotiating ban, except a handful of countries having nuclear weapons and those under their influence.