Many scientists are giving a half truth version of the deal. With the deal, we can buy uranium (not only from US, but also from France, UK, Russia, Australia etc.), but need to meet requirements like not reprocessing or using for non-civilian purposes. There is no restruiction on what we do with our existing stock of uranium or what we mine internally. India does not have enough uranium to run a decent nuclear civilian program. Even when you buy a TV, you are told that no warantee is applicable if you open the TV set yourself instead of seeking qualified and approved service support. So what are we complaining about? Without the deal, there is no uranium and hence no need to reprocess etc. Scientists of the 60s-70s era are caught in the time-trap of Nehruvian concepts of the period. We have to simply apply the commonsense rule of analysing what does it bring to us and what do we lose. In this case we can still do whatever we want to with our own Uranium resources while we need to follow the requirements of the deal if we want to get additional uranium to run a good nuclear energy program.
