Amid congratulatory statements [2] about a new "win-win" era in U.S.-India relations, nuclear weapons experts warned that a new agreement giving India the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel presents proliferation dangers. "At a time when nuclear terrorism and proliferation concerns are only increasing, the United States should be doing everything it can to stop existing reprocessing, not facilitate more," said Edwin Lyman [3], an expert on nuclear proliferation at the Ploughshares-funded Union of Concerned Scientists. [4] He said that under the agreement, India could reprocess the fuel to extract weapons-usable plutonium, which could pose a risk of terrorism or theft.
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/1653
[2] http://sify.com/news/nuclear-liability-bill-win-win-for-us-india-envoy-news-national-kdruEdcbiee.html
[3] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/119
[4] http://www.ucsusa.org/
[5] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/29/AR2010032901744.html