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What is 123. Well ….to be in short, it is an agreement signed between India & US for the sake of India’s necessity in importing resources / machinery related to nuclear technology from US to setup and materialize production of Nuclear based electricity. Well quite confusing …isn’t it? Read on……..

US had restrictions in providing such technology to India all these days. Now it is ready to remove those restrictions based on some conditions specified in 123 agreement.

Condition 1:

All the reactors producing electricity based on nuclear energy must be brought under the direct supervision of the International Nuclear Energy Committee. As per this condition 14 out of 22 nuclear reactors in India would be brought under the supervision.

Condition 2:

In order to recycle the nuclear fuel used in the nuclear reactors, advanced reactors must be setup. Such reactors must also be brought under the supervision of the respective Nuclear committees of America.

Condition 3:

If the machinery used to produce electricity from nuclear energy can be used to produce nuclear weapons, then such machinery should not be given to India.

Condition 4:

If India conducts a nuclear test, then America would break the agreement and take back all the technology / machinery provided to India. But the reactors which has been brought into the supervision of the respective nuclear committees will continue to be in their supervision !

India must agree to all these conditions in order to proceed further in completing this agreement.

The last condition which states that the agreement will terminate if India conducts a nuclear test is not specified in the 123 agreement, but in the Hyde’s Law which has been completed before 123 agreement in the American parliament.

In case if America does not provide the resources / technology as agreed upon, can India terminate the agreement? No. These is no such provision in the agreement as such.
One more condition in the 123 is India’s external affairs stand as far as Nuclear energy is concerned must be in sync with American stand. To be precise, India must support America in opposing Iran for producing Nuclear weapons.

Why should India sign such an agreement which appears to be biased towards America?
Well…in order to increase the Electricity production? Electricity produced from nuclear energy only can tackle India’s future demands for electricity? It it true…..

Right now the electricity produced by India is around 1,26,839 MW. Of this 66 % if from the Lignite mines. Electricity produced from the Hydro Electric projects is around 26 %. % from other resources like Solar based production. If in case you need to increase the production of Nuclear based electricity to 6 % in the next 20 years, then you need to invest 50000 crores. The amount spent towards Solar based and more such techniques tight now is just 600 crores. They are giving us back 5 % of the total electricity produced with such an investment. The amount spent towards Nuclear based electricity production is around 3897 crores. It is returning just 3% of the total electricity produced after all these investments.

By signing this agreement India forces itself to reveal the nuclear secrets. In the past India has used 35 % of its plutonium for producing nuclear weapons. After 123, it can use only 10% of Plutonium. Technology & nuclear fuel are the two reasons for which India signs this agreement. But we have both them and it is not necessary for us to depend on America. This is the truth.

There is a false rumor that we don’t have enough Uranium. In order to produce electricity for the next 40 years along with Nuclear weapons ( aroung 2228 Bombs ) we need around 25000 MTon. We have around 78000 Tons of Uranium. We have around 3 Lakh tons of thorium. We have even developed the technology to make use of this availability. Our Nuclear Energy dept have plans to make this into a reality in the next 40 years.

In order to use thorium, we need small amount of uranium. America is trying to bring the plan of recycling uranium into the 123 agreement. They may have plans to control the thorium activities May be that’s why the 123 agreement is also signed for a period of 40 years. Will come back with lot more details….