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India’s safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency has become operational with New Delhi notifying its separation plan to the IAEA on Oct. 16. . With the notification that separates the country’s nuclear civilian and strategic establishments, 14 reactors will be put under the India Specific Safeguards Agreement (ISSA) by 2014.

The separation plan was officially announced in March 2006 during former US President George Bush’s visit to India. The IAEA would begin ...