India says Russia to supply fuel to atomic plants

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will receive uranium from Russia to run two atomic power plants that have struggled to find fuel after the United States stopped supplies more than three decades ago, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Moscow's decision to supply fuel to India's Tarapur nuclear power plants came nearly two weeks after New Delhi and Washington sealed a landmark deal which aims to give India access to atomic equipment and fuel from the United States, and eventually from other nuclear nations.

Russia, a member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) -- an informal club of nations that control global nuclear trade -- cannot supply fuel to countries like India which have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

But Moscow would send the shipment under an NSG "Safety Exception Clause" which allows fuel transfers if there is reason to believe that starving a reactor of fuel could result in a nuclear hazard, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said.

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1. Pre emptive

nuclear fuel supplier.

Russia wants a piece of the pie. What will Bush have to say about this revolting development?

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