India will be in nuclear mainstream: Kakodkar

IN LIMELIGHT: Kakodkar (in pix) and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner signed the civil nuclear cooperation deal.

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Paris: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar has said that says India is not worried about losing out on the reprocessing technology in the nuclear deal with the French.

"One has to be practical and the purpose is to enhance the electricity generation. Through nuclear energy means that is our primary objective. India has full comprehensive technological capability on all aspects of nuclear fuel cycle," said Kakodkar.

When asked if none of the NSG countries will provide reprocessing technology to India, Kakodkar said, "It's upto the NSG and we would expect that soon, we will be in the nuclear mainstream."

Kakodkar and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner signed the Indo-France Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and French President Nicolas Sarkozy .

The agreement ended India' 34 years of nuclear isolation.

“We expect to finalise agreements (on civil nuclear co-operation) with other European partners, too,” Singh said after talks with Sarkozy at Elysee Palace.

Sanctions had been imposed on India after the Pokhran nuclear tests of 1974, and also after the 1998 explosions.

The US formed the Nuclear Suppliers Group without whose clearance no country could procure nuclear technology or supply of fissile material.