A former BARC director A N Prasad says "the text is generally all right but there is nothing India-specific."
Nothing India specific? He must be joking. India has 22 reactors plus 6 more coming up. Only 14 existing reactors, identified by India as totally civilian, comes under the deal. The other 8 reactors, outside the deal, permits India's military nuclear program to continue unfettered. The 6 reactors coming up and other reactors in future are outside the purview of the deal.
This is a marked deviation of IAEA safeguard agreement with all other countries like Iran, Iraq etc, where all reactors are put under IAEA inspection regime.
It maybe added that these 14 reactors are not are long term strategic reactors, based on fast breeders and thorium fuel. These are dual use - can be used both for civilian and military purposes. So the 14 reactors under the deal have no long term strategic value.
The article quotes only 3 scientists - known dissenters of the deal. Others quotes are on "under the condition of anonymity" an euphemism that the journalist interviwed Prakash Karat or LK Advani
