India, Australia's newest uranium export destination, is to take to pieces its nuclear regulator, replacing the expert panel with a government-controlled body critics say will be a ''sham'' and ''no regulator at all''.Legislation before the Indian parliament would restore the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, which has monitor the use, transfer and disposal of nuclear material in India for 28 years, with the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority.
The NSRA will be answerable to a clutch of government ministers who can straight the regulator, even sack its members, generous rise to allegations that the new body will be captive to government.The controversial move comes as Australian officials arrange to begin negotiations with India about the sale of uranium to its inhabitant nuclear program.
This month the Labor Party overturned a long-standing ban on promotion uranium to India because it refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.India remains steadfastly outside the treaty but has sign other international agreements and is now subject to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group.But nuclear experts say safety will be compromise below the new domestic regulator.
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