Corrective measures:
India has always had agreements with various countries and has honoured it, the experts said, adding that with respect to the current agreement the fact that it allows for India to stockpile is the key.
"We have created a total framework, which will help us realise lifetime operation of fuel. The whole process will move in a way that will ensure that India always honours the agreement with a particular supplier country," Kakodkar said.
"There will not be any requirement where there is a fuel supply disruption. But if such a situation arises, Article 52c provides for us to first raise this as a material violation of the agreement and that this itself might act as a deterrent.
If still a danger of disruption arises, we have here the combination of Articles 29, 30f, 10, 4 and the preamble, this will help us with whatever steps we want to take further."
What about the perpetuity of the safeguards? Will they remain even if there is a disruption and India walks out of the deal?
There is no problem here, the experts said. "The permanence of safeguards is coupled with the perpetuity of supply of fuel. So in case there is a disruption in the supply of fuel, the safeguards agreement will cease to hold," Kakodkar explained.
What about future reactors that India may build?
"Any reactor that India declares as civilian, will be put under IAEA safeguards. This applies for current as well as future reactors".
Image: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar at the 50th general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Photograph: Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images
Also read: Full text of India-IAEA agreement
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