International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safeguards.
India signed IAEA Safeguards on July 18 '05.
Few details about IAEA Safeguards.
* IAEA was established in 1957
Most countries around the world use nuclear technologies for a wide variety
of peaceful purposes — for generating electricity, diagnosing disease and
treating cancer, for numerous industrial applications and for food and
medical sterilization. At least 30 countries have nuclear power reactors.
There are scores of other major facilities containing nuclear material in
over 70 countries that are “safeguarded” under IAEA agreements with
governments.
Safeguards are a set of activities by which the IAEA seeks to verify that a
State is living up to its international undertakings not to use nuclear
programmes for nuclear weapons purposes. The safeguards system is based on
assessment of the correctness and completeness of the State’s declarations
to the IAEA concerning nuclear material and nuclear-related activities. To
date, 145 States have entered into such agreements with the IAEA,
submitting
nuclear materials, facilities and activities to the scrutiny of IAEA’s
safeguards inspectors.
IAEA verification helps to provide assurance that such items are not
diverted or misused in order to assemble nuclear weapons and that no items
required to be declared under safeguards are undeclared. This, in turn,
helps to allay security concerns among States with respect to the
development of nuclear weapons.Verifying the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear
Energy
For more details you can visit:
http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/SV/Safeguards/index.html
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