IHS Reveals New Potential Nuclear Enrichment Site in India
June 20 2014 - 3:00AM
Business Wire
Potential to expand India’s uranium enrichment for its nuclear
submarine fleet
Using satellite imagery, a covert uranium enrichment plant in
India has been analysed by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS), a leading global
source of critical information and insight.
IHS Jane’s defense and security intelligence experts have
identified a possible new uranium hexafluoride plant at the Indian
Rare Metals Plant (IRMP) near Mysore, India. This site in India
will support new centrifuges that will substantially expand India’s
uranium enrichment capacity, most likely to facilitate the
construction of an increased number of naval reactors to expand the
country’s nuclear submarine fleet, but also, to potentially support
the development of thermonuclear weapons. IHS Jane’s experts assess
that the new uranium enrichment facility could become operational
by mid- to late-2015.
“The expansion of India’s uranium enrichment facilities allows
the country to press ahead with the introduction of its ballistic
missile nuclear submarine fleet, part of an effort to enhance its
existing nuclear deterrent in the face of perceived threats from
both China and Pakistan,” comments Matthew Clements, Editor, IHS
Jane’s Intelligence Review.
Karl Dewey, Proliferation Editor at IHS Jane’s Intelligence
Review, added: “The enrichment plant was originally built to
provide uranium for submarine reactors. But there is now
significant excess capacity for other purposes, most likely nuclear
weapons.”
Robert Kelley, consultant to IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review,
added: “The US continues to treat India as a bona fide nuclear
weapons state despite India’s failure to ratify the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Mysore’s original centrifuge plant
was constructed in 1992, although in 2010 site clearance for a new,
even larger, suspected centrifuge hall began. It is this new
facility that could soon be operational. India is generally vocal
in publicising its defence industry successes, but has revealed
little about operations at Mysore, possibly to reduce attention to
its nuclear trade agreements with the US.”
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