"While India has been demanding that the reprocessing fuel provision in the agreement be done away with, one member, who has held long meetings with Kakodkar, said the provision is not one that US Congress would be willing to do away with because "there is deep scepticism on Capitol Hill that if this is done, it would allow India to take advantage of the nuclear fuel it would obtain from the US to build up its strategic resources (read nuclear weapons arsenal)."
This only shows that US congress is still fixated on this issue of nuclear arsenal while claiming that this deal was not about India's arsenal.
Whereas for Mr Kakodkar,
"But there is no question that if you expect that you are going to have this surge in indigenous Indian nuclear plants, that there are going to require cheap fuel %uFFFD and that goes to the heart of reprocessing, and it has nothing to do with building up a strategic arsenal and that's what he [Kakodkar] was telling us %uFFFD that India has plenty enough fuel and material right now if they wanted to go on building up a bigger nuclear arsenal."
However, if such is the case, why would US insist that India cannot reprocess fuel. Well, not being a scientist, it is my guess that Mr. Kakodkar suspects that this deal would make India dip into its saved strategic arsenal ( read bombs ) once US starts playing games with the provisions and second, India would not be able to develop its own nuclear plants as there would be no fuel for such plants and thus will be dependent on the US mercy for ever. It is better to dump the deal rather than become a pawn.
