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05NEWDELHI4715
2005-06-21 11:20:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy New Delhi
Cable title:
INDIAN NON-PAPER ON BARC COOPERATION WITH IRAN
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C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 004715
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/21/2015
TAGS: PREL KNNP IR IN
SUBJECT: INDIAN NON-PAPER ON BARC COOPERATION WITH IRAN
Classified By: DCM Robert O. Blake, Jr. for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 004715
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/21/2015
TAGS: PREL KNNP IR IN
SUBJECT: INDIAN NON-PAPER ON BARC COOPERATION WITH IRAN
Classified By: DCM Robert O. Blake, Jr. for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
1. (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and
Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary
(International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms
Control Stephen Rademaker the following nonpaper regarding
possible cooperation between a Bhabha Atomic Research Center
(BARC) scientist and an Iranian scientist on the computer
code WIMS-D4. Further discussion of this case in the context
of the Nonproliferation Dialogue will follow septel. Text of
the non-paper follows:
2. (C) Begin text of GOI non-paper:
The US side had raised the issue of an Iranian researcher
having received information from a Babha Atomic Research
Center (BARC) scientist on the computer code WIMS-D4.
The IAEA has a TC project IRA/4/023 "Strengthening Owner,s
Functions for BNPP" related to the Bushehr Nuclear Power
Project. An Expert Mission 'Advice on Developing a Core
Group in NPPD for Fuel Management' was organized by IAEA as
apart of this project on June 8-12, 2002. Dr. V. Jagannathan
(Reactor Physics Design Division, BARC) was one of the
members of this Expert Mission along with representatives
from the IAEA, the Netherlands, and Hungary. The objective
of the Mission was to explore the requirements of assistance
in development/review of fuel management, core mapping and
burn-up calculations for BNPP.
Subsequently, a workshop was to be held in Vienna during
November 15-23, 2004, in which Dr. Jagannathan, though
invited, did not participate and where WIMS-D4 might have
been discussed. Dr. Jagannathan is also not familiar with
this code. Any suggestion of his interacting with the
Iranians on WIMS-D4 is, therefore, misplaced. It is also
well known that WIMS-D4 is an internationally available
multi-group lattice code for thermal reactor analysis that
does not simulate any fuel movement.
End GOI text.
MULFORD
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/21/2015
TAGS: PREL KNNP IR IN
SUBJECT: INDIAN NON-PAPER ON BARC COOPERATION WITH IRAN
Classified By: DCM Robert O. Blake, Jr. for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
1. (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and
Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary
(International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms
Control Stephen Rademaker the following nonpaper regarding
possible cooperation between a Bhabha Atomic Research Center
(BARC) scientist and an Iranian scientist on the computer
code WIMS-D4. Further discussion of this case in the context
of the Nonproliferation Dialogue will follow septel. Text of
the non-paper follows:
2. (C) Begin text of GOI non-paper:
The US side had raised the issue of an Iranian researcher
having received information from a Babha Atomic Research
Center (BARC) scientist on the computer code WIMS-D4.
The IAEA has a TC project IRA/4/023 "Strengthening Owner,s
Functions for BNPP" related to the Bushehr Nuclear Power
Project. An Expert Mission 'Advice on Developing a Core
Group in NPPD for Fuel Management' was organized by IAEA as
apart of this project on June 8-12, 2002. Dr. V. Jagannathan
(Reactor Physics Design Division, BARC) was one of the
members of this Expert Mission along with representatives
from the IAEA, the Netherlands, and Hungary. The objective
of the Mission was to explore the requirements of assistance
in development/review of fuel management, core mapping and
burn-up calculations for BNPP.
Subsequently, a workshop was to be held in Vienna during
November 15-23, 2004, in which Dr. Jagannathan, though
invited, did not participate and where WIMS-D4 might have
been discussed. Dr. Jagannathan is also not familiar with
this code. Any suggestion of his interacting with the
Iranians on WIMS-D4 is, therefore, misplaced. It is also
well known that WIMS-D4 is an internationally available
multi-group lattice code for thermal reactor analysis that
does not simulate any fuel movement.
End GOI text.
MULFORD