Not true my friend. They do not have fast breeder technology and we dont need it from them. What we need is Uranium to sustain the thorium cycle. We have practically none. Even Australia wont give us uranium without that deal. Our fast breeder is still only on paper and only in phase 2. We have not even reached the final phase and we already talk as if we have mastered it.
They have allowed reprocessing and a dedicated reprocessing plant will be set up for it. Let there be no doubt, we will reprocess the fuel, and believe me - everyone will be reprocessing nuclear fuel and beg India to do so when oil crosses 100$ a barrel.
Let us be realistic, our nuclear infrastructure and capacity to expand is woefully weak. We are lucky to have had good scientists who produced outstanding results with very little resources. But if dont rapidly increase power generation by huge amounts, our economic development will quickly crumble.
