The Canadian Nuclear Horn (Daniel 7)

Canada to boost strategic ties with India with Defence, nuclear push 
NEW DELHI: Canada is planning to send a delegation to the Def Expo in Goa later this month to explore partnership in the area of defence electronics as it eyes an expansion in strategic ties with India, including an opportunity to set up nuclear reactors in the country.
India is among the top priorities for the Justin Trudeau government that came to power late last year, Canadian High Commissioner to India Nadir Patel told ET.
Last April PM Narendra Modi had the opportunity to meet Trudeau when the latter was the Opposition leader. A Canadian nuclear mission comprising nuclear firms and officials visited India in October last year and both sides have explored cooperation in pressurised heavy water reactors, training, capacity building and nuclear waste management.
“Following this visit there have been intense discussions between the officials of the two countries. Given the opportunity Canada could consider setting up nuclear reactors in India and upgrading Indian reactors run on CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) technology,” Patel said.
Canada will follow the USA, Russia and France in setting up nuclear reactors in India if a decision is taken to allot the country a plant site.
Patel said Canada is partnering India in maintenance aspects of the nuclear sector. The civil nuclear partnership between the two countries entered a new phase with the conclusion of commercial pact during Modi’s trip for supply of uranium from the North American country to energy hungry India.
Following this the first tranche of uranium from Canada arrived here four decades after civil nuclear cooperation was suspended following the test at Pokhran. Canada will supply 3,000 metric tonnes of uranium beginning last year under a $254 million five-year deal to power Indian atomic reactors.

The Canadian Nuclear Horn (Daniel 7:7)

India to Get First Lot of Canadian Uranium Next Month
Press Trust of India | Updated: Nov 25, 2015 18:59 IST

New Delhi: India will get its first consignment of Canadian uranium by next month, in a move that will help in securing fuel for nuclear power reactors in the country.

“The first lot of 250 tonnes of Canadian uranium is already on its way and should land by the first week of December. Since it is imported fuel it will be used in the safeguarded reactors,” a senior government official said.

The deal, worth CAD 350 million with Canada’s largest uranium producing company Cameco Corp, will ensure 3,220 metric tonnes of uranium over the next five years.

Signed in April this year when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the North American country, the development also assumes importance as Mr Modi during his visit had given emphasis on the nuclear energy aspect.

The Indo-Canada civil nuclear cooperation was signed in 2010. Incidentally, Canada had banned exports of uranium and nuclear hardware to India in the 1970s after New Delhi developed a nuclear bomb.

India has 21 operational nuclear reactors and six under construction. India this year registered a record production of 1,252 MT of uranium, manufacturing close to double the annual fuel requirement of atomic reactors in the country. The production has far exceeded the country’s annual fuel requirement of 650 MT for the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs), which means the country has surplus nuclear fuel that will last several months.

Every 700 MW of reactor needs 125 MT of uranium every year. However, with the rising number of power reactors in the country, the demand is expected to rise. In the near future, two nuclear reactors of 700 MW each in Rajasthan Atomic Power Station and Kakrapar Atomic Power Station are coming up.

Apart from Canada, India currently procures uranium from Kazakhstan and Russia for its domestic reactors. Fuel for its two foreign reactors at Kudankulam is being taken care of by Russia. It also buys enriched uranium for its two Boiling Water Reactors at Tarapur from Russia. Plus, it is in process of procuring the nuke fuel from Australia.

Four atomic reactors of 700 MW each are also coming up at the Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana. Fuel for Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu and Jaitapur in Maharashtra, coming up in collaboration with Russia and France respectively, will be made available by the foreign players.

The Canadian Nuclear Horn Opens (Daniel 7)

 
India to get first lot of Canadian uranium next month
25 Nov, 2015, 1656 hrs IST, PTI

NEW DELHI: India will gets its first consignment of Canadian uranium by next month, in a move that will help in securing fuel for nuclear power reactors in the country.
“The first lot of of 250 tonnes of Canadian uranium is already on its on way and should land by the first week of December. Since it is imported fuel it will be used in the safeguarded reactors,” a senior government official said.

The deal, worth CAD 350 million with Canada’s largest uranium producing company Cameco Corp, will ensure 3,220 metric tonnes of uranium over the next five years.

Signed in April this year when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the North American country, the development also assumes importance as Modi during his visit had given emphasis on the nuclear energy aspect.

The Indo-Canada civil nuclear cooperation was signed in 2010. Incidentally, Canada had banned exports of uranium and nuclear hardware to India in the 1970s after New Delhi developed a nuclear bomb.

India has 21 operational nuclear reactors and six under construction. India this year registered a record production of 1,252 MT of uranium, manufacturing close to double the annual fuel requirement of atomic reactors in the country. The production has far exceeded the country’s annual fuel requirement of 650 MT for the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs), which means the country has surplus nuclear fuel that will last several months.

Every 700 MW of reactor needs 125 MT of uranium every year. However, with the rising number of power reactors in the country, the demand is expected to rise. In the near future, two nuclear reactors of 700 MW each in Rajasthan Atomic Power Station and Kakrapar Atomic Power Station are coming up.

Apart from Canada, India currently procures uranium from Kazakhstan and Russia for its domestic reactors. Fuel for its two foreign reactors at Kudankulam is being taken care of by Russia. It also buys enriched uranium for its two Boiling Water Reactors at Tarapur from Russia. Plus, it is in process of procuring the nuke fuel from Australia.

Four atomic reactors of 700 MW each are also coming up at the Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana. Fuel for Kudankulam plant in Tamil Nadu and Jaitapur in Maharashtra, coming up in collaboration with Russia and France respectively, will be made available by the foreign players.

Canadian Horn Supplying India With Nukes (Dan 7:7)

After a pause of four decades, India to receive nuclear fuel supply from Canada in autumn 2015

15 Jun, 2015, 0400 hrs IST, Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: India is expected to start receiving nuclear fuel from Canada in autumn this year to power its atomic power plants, marking resumption of supply more than four decades after the North American country suspended supply of yellowcake in the backdrop of Pokhran-I atomic tests by India in 1974.
Senior officials of Cameco, Canada’s leading and one of the world’s largest uranium producers, visited India last week to discuss modalities for supplying nuclear fuel to the country, officials said. This followed signing of the uranium supply agreement between the two countries during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Canada in April. “This is a concrete outcome of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Canada this April. We are expecting first uranium supply later this year as part of the steady supply of nuclear fuel that has been agreed,” Canadian High Commissioner to India Nadir Patel told ET.
Patel said that tracking of nuclear fuel to be supplied will be carried out as per International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards as agreed by India and to the satisfaction of Canada. Canada will supply 3,000 metric tonnes of uranium to energy-hungry India under a $254 million five-year deal to power atomic reactors. Canada was the first country to complete the requirements for civil nuclear cooperation after India secured the unconditional waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in 2008. Subsequently, India and Canada signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement in 2010. This was followed by the signing of an administrative arrangement in 2012.
Cameco has been holding commercial negotiations with Indian entities ever since for supply of uranium to fuel nuclear power plants in the country which has faced uranium shortage in the past.
Patel said the supply of uranium will be just one part of the comprehensive civil nuclear partnership. The Canadian civil nuclear trade mission to India in October will explore partnership for joint research and collaboration. This could include jointly producing civil nuclear reactors with Indian partners or setting up of nuclear reactors by Canadian companies, he said.
The high commissioner said Canada is positively viewing the clarification provided by India on the Nuclear Liability Law and Indo-US breakthrough on nuclear deal achieved during President Barack Obama’s trip to India.

The Canadian Horn Blocks Nuclear Ban (Dan 7:7)

  

Canada helps block UN anti-nukes plan
May 25, 2015

OTTAWA – Israel has expressed its gratitude to Canada for helping to block a major international plan towards ridding the world of nuclear weapons.

Elsewhere, however, there was widespread international disappointment that Canada and Britain supported the United States in opposing the document at the United Nations review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The document called on the UN to hold a disarmament conference on the Middle East by 2016. Such a conference could have forced Israel to publicly acknowledge that it is a nuclear power, something the Jewish state has never done.

Adopting the document would have required a consensus, but since none was reached, that means nuclear disarmament efforts have been blocked until 2020.

In a weekend phone call, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Stephen Harper for what he called Canada’s principled stand, Harper’s office in Ottawa said in a statement.

“Prime Minister Harper reaffirmed Canada’s commitment to disarmament and non-proliferation, including within the framework of the NPT,” the statement said.

“He also stressed Canada’s belief that a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free zone can only be truly effective if all countries in the Middle East participate freely and constructively in its establishment.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson said Canada’s decision “sends a strong message about Canada’s resolve not to compromise the integrity of a treaty to which we remain fully and deeply committed.”

But there was widespread opposition and disappointment expressed by several countries that addressed the conference, which wrapped Friday after four weeks of meetings.

Austria, which spoke on behalf of 49 countries, said the result spoke to the wide divide over what nuclear disarmament should mean. “There is a realty gap, a credibility gap, a confidence gap and a moral gap.”

The delegate to South Africa added: “There is a sense in which the NPT has degenerated into minority rule similar to what we had in South Africa under apartheid — the will of the few will prevail regardless of whether it makes moral sense.”

It’s disappointing that Canada helped scuttle the four weeks of negotiations that led up to Friday’s result, said Beatrice Fihn, spokeswoman for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of 400 non-governmental organizations in 95 countries.

“Three countries take their cue from a non-state party — Israel isn’t even part of the treaty — and thereby have this final say,” Fihn said.

But former Liberal foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy supported the Conservative decision, saying that dragging the Middle East issue into the talks was a ploy by some countries to embarrass Israel.

“There was a distinct effort, whether it was by Egypt or others, to present a package that they knew certain countries — including our own — would not agree with,” Axworthy said in an interview.

“I wish there had been more countries saying so, with some of the NGOs so quick to condemn, because the reality is if you’re going to do diplomacy it has to be feasible and realistic.”

The United States accused Egypt and other countries of trying to “cynically manipulate” the review process.

Axworthy said the NPT conference missed a chance to deal with serious nuclear proliferation issues, including Iran’s alleged pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

“The way in which the ongoing Middle East-Israeli-Palestinian issue was introduced into the package was clearly designed to be disruptive.”

But New Democrat foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar accused the government of playing the role of international spoiler.

“When it comes to the Middle East, many have said this is the most dangerous place in the world to have nuclear weapons,” said Dewar.

“If we can get other countries to abide by nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East, then that can advance the cause globally.”

By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press

The Canadian Nuclear Horn (Dan 7:7)

Canadian Nuclear Horn

Would you sell matches to an arsonist?

By Scott Vrooman

May 4, 2015

India, a country currently in a nuclear arms race with Pakistan, signed a new agreement to buy 3000 tons of Canadian uranium. They’ve promised to only use it for civilian purposes, but think about it: India is using up what would be civilian uranium to build nuclear bombs. That’s why they need more uranium. If you sell matches to an arsonist, it doesn’t matter if they use them for cigarettes or abandoned warehouses, you’re part of the problem.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed by 191 countries. Four haven’t: India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel. I suppose you could call them rogue states if that term had any genuine meaning.

Our government openly worries about a nuclear Iran, a country that has zero nuclear weapons and who signed the treaty. And yet we sell uranium to a country with an active nuclear weapons program that’s had three wars with Pakistan since 1947 and several dangerous standoffs.

During one standoff in 2002 an asteroid caused an air burst over the Mediterranean. If that had happened closer to India and Pakistan, it could have triggered a nuclear war. And that’s just one of dozens of misunderstandings and mistakes involving nuclear weapons that make it a miracle we haven’t Three’s Companied ourselves into oblivion.

It doesn’t matter that the current government of India happens to be allies with Canada’s current government. A nuclear war is like a celebrity boxing match. Everyone loses. Studies show that even a limited nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan would kill millions of people immediately and cause a nuclear winter, agricultural collapse, and a global famine that could effectively end human civilization.

Or at least what we call civilization. If we want to be worthy of the name, we should probably stop actively trying to end ourselves.

Increase In Uranium Mining Precedes Future Events (Rev 15:2)

 Increase In Global Production Of Uranium
TodayWorld
Published: May 2, 2015 at 1:58 pm
Modified: May 2, 2015 at 1:58 pm
Uranium, which is the fuel for nuclear reactors, is mined in only a few countries. Because of its growing demand and limited supply, it’s important to take a closer look at production of uranium.

In its latest report, the World Nuclear Association said that around 64% of the world’s total production of uranium was from Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia in 2013. In the last six years, the production of uranium has increased by more than 200% in Kazakhstan, while it has decreased in Canada and Australia. However, the global production of uranium has increased 43.4% during the past six years from 41,282 tonnes in 2007 to 59,370 tonnes in 2013. Now, it carters to 92% of the total demand in the world.

India’s total production of 385 tonnes was less than 1% of the world output. The South Asian country’s operational uranium mines are located in Jharkhand Province, while deposits have been found in Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Provinces. As a result, India is holding talks with Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia for importing uranium to run its nuclear reactors.

As per the report published by World Nuclear Association, Kazakhstan (37.82% of the global production) was leading in uranium mining production in 2013. The Central Asian country was followed by Canada (15.72%), Australia (10.70%), Niger (7.61%), Namibia (7.28%), Russia (5.28%), Uzbekistan (4.04%), the US (3.02%), China (2.53%), Malawi (1.91%), Ukraine (1.55%), South Africa (0.89%), India (0.65%) and others (1.01%).

As per the data published by Power Reactor Information System of International Atomic Energy Agency in 2014, India ranked 13th in terms of power generation from nuclear source. However, the South Asian country stands at 7th position in terms of number of reactors in operation country-wise globally.

Although uranium is commonly used as nuclear fuel in many countries, uranium centrifuges are also the core component of a nuclear bomb. Currently, the world has 19,000 such uranium centrifuges.

India Closes Up Canadian Uranium Deal (Dan 7:7)

   Uranium supply to begin this year

Posted at: Apr 18 2015 2:05AM

Ottawa, April 17

Canadian company Cameco, which has signed an agreement for the supply of uranium to India, will start delivery in the second half of this year with the end-use being strictly monitored.

The company is excited over the pact, which it says marks the “start of a new relationship” between the two countries. Cameco’s president and CEO Tim S Gitzel said the company would start delivering uranium by the second half of this year as per the schedule.

Cameco and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) signed an agreement here two days ago during the visit of PM Narendra Modi. Under the pact, the Canadian company will supply uranium over five years at a cost of 350 million Canadian dollars.
 
“We signed a binding contract under which Cameco will supply 700 million pounds of uranium to India over the next five years,” Gitzel said. — PTI

The Canadian Nuclear Horn Sells Uranium To India (Rev 15:2)

 

 Canada to sell uranium to India in breakthrough deal

BY AGENCIES

• $283m contract is for the supply of 7.1m pounds of uranium concentrate over the next five years for use in a growing number of Indian nuclear power plants
• Canadian PM announces visa on arrival for Indians

Canada’s prime minister announced a breakthrough deal Wednesday to supply uranium to India for electricity generation, putting behind decades of discord over India’s surreptitious use of Canadian technologies to build atomic bombs.

The agreement was signed in Ottawa during a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the first Indian leader to visit Canada in 42 years, since Indira Gandhi.

The  Can$350 million (US$283 million) contract is for the supply of 7.1 million pounds of uranium concentrate over the next five years, for use in a growing number of Indian nuclear power plants.

The uranium is to be sourced from the northern Saskatchewan mines of Cameco, the world’s third-largest uranium producer, accountable for 16 per cent of world production. It currently exports about Can$1 billion worth of uranium annually.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said a nuclear cooperation agreement concluded in 2012 laid the groundwork for the two Commonwealth nations “to turn the page on what had been in our judgment an unnecessarily frosty relationship for too along”.

The 2012 pact signed by Harper and Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh, allows Canadian companies to export nuclear materials for peaceful uses, in accordance with Canada’s nuclear non-proliferation policy.

Its ratification had been delayed several years as the two nations could not agree on how to track India’s use of nuclear material to ensure it was put to peaceful purposes.

New Delhi balked at Ottawa’s demand to be allowed to monitor the safe use of its nuclear exports. In the end, the two countries agreed to set up a joint panel to supervise the exports.

New Delhi, backed by the United States, also won an exemption in 2008 from the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which governs global nuclear trade, to allow it to buy reactors and fuel from abroad, even though it has not signed the non-proliferation treaty.

Modi told a joint press conference with Harper that the uranium procurement deal marks “a new era of bilateral cooperation (and)… trust and confidence in India”. “This gives the energy to our relations,” he said.

The two leaders also pledged a renewed push to get stalled free trade talks back on track.

Bilateral trade is small, only Can$6.3 billion in 2014, according to Canadian government figures.

“Both Mr. Modi and I believe it could be worth much more,” Harper said. “Canada has what India needs and vice versa.”

Harper said he hoped to have a free trade deal completed by September. However, “there are many issues to be resolved,” he added.

ON ARRIVAL VISAS:

The Canadian PM also announced that Indians will be given visa on arrival in Canada.

Addressing the Indian community at an event in Toronto on Thursday, where Modi was also present, Harper said, “India and Canada’s friendship is a friendship we truly value.” He said the Indian community in Canada had grown in size and so had its contribution to economic strength and culture.

Referring to Modi’s first visit to Canada as India’s prime minister, Harper said: “His first visit has been historic.”

Modi’s visit to Canada comes after stops in France, where he ordered 36 Rafale fighter jets in a multi-billion-euro agreement, and Germany.

Nearly 1.2 million Canadians trace their roots to India. South Asians are the largest visible minority in Canada.

Canada: Why So Much Uranium? (Daniel 7:7)

 

 Canada, India agree to $350-million uranium supply deal

Steven Chase And Kim Mackrael
Ottawa — The Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Apr. 15 2015, 10:59 AM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 15 2015, 8:08 PM EDT

Canada and India are back in the nuclear business together after a decades-long moratorium with a uranium sale to New Delhi that opens the door for Canadians to profit from a growing Indian appetite for power from reactors.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a $350-million deal on Wednesday for Canada’s largest uranium producer, Cameco Corp., to supply 3,220 metric tonnes to power India’s reactors over the next five years.

Canada banned exports of uranium and nuclear hardware to India in the 1970s after New Delhi used Canadian technology to develop a nuclear bomb.

Mr. Modi is the first sitting Indian prime minister to make a bilateral visit to Canada in more than 40 years – before relations chilled after New Delhi’s nuclear testing.

“Canada giving uranium to India is a mark of trust and confidence,” the Indian leader said.

Mr. Modi, whose country aims to increase its share of electricity generated by nuclear power to 25 per cent by 2050 from 4 per cent today, told reporters in Ottawa how highly he prizes the radioactive ore.

“For me, uranium is not just a mineral. For me, it is an article of faith [and] trust,” Mr. Modi said. “This is to save the world, in effect, to save the world from global warming and climate change.”

Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel said the Indian uranium deal represents a small portion of annual sales. For instance, Cameco expects to sell nearly 15,000 metric tonnes in 2015.

The agreement paves the way for the Saskatchewan company, the world’s second-largest uranium producer, to sell more in the years ahead as India vastly expands nuclear power generation. India’s nuclear energy building program is second only to China’s in scale.

“Today, they have 21 nuclear reactors operating. They have six under construction. They’re building dozens more over the next few years,” Mr. Gitzel said in an interview.

He said much of the long-term growth Cameco sees in the uranium industry will come from India.

“We want to be the preferred seller to India,” he said. “Today is just the start of the relationship.”

Mr. Gitzel said Canada’s competitors include Kazakhstan, the world leader in uranium production, as well as Russia and the French.

Nuclear trade between Canada and India has the potential to go far beyond uranium, extending to exports of hardware.

However, potential foreign hardware suppliers fear that, under India’s nuclear liability law, they could be held legally responsible in the event of a nuclear power catastrophe.

A deal reached by U.S. President Barack Obama and Mr. Modi in January appears to represent a breakthrough on this matter. The leaders agreed the legal liability of U.S. nuclear technology suppliers would be limited. New Delhi would presumably extend this accommodation to other country’s suppliers.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, who played a major role in the deal, characterized the sale as helping a country with similar values and a boon for his province.

“Our uranium producers are excited and ready to supply product to India, the world’s largest democracy,” Mr. Wall said.

He said 45 per cent of Cameco’s work force in Saskatchewan is aboriginal. “This is the largest industrial employer of First Nations and Métis people in our province.”

The Premier said a starting job as a miner pays $60,000 to $70,000. “These are good careers.”

Critics of the deal suggest providing India with uranium for its nuclear power plants will free up New Delhi to use other stores of the radioactive ore for nuclear weaponry. Mr. Wall said Canada is “responsible for our uranium” – and ensuring it is used for peaceful means by India – and should not deny itself business in rapidly growing markets such as India and China.

The Canadian-Indian Nuclear Horn (Dan 7)

 ‘Canada-India uranium supply deal likely’

Last Updated: Saturday, April 11, 2015 – 14:34

Toronto: A deal between Canada’s biggest uranium producer, Cameco, and India to supply fuel for nuclear power plants is likely to be signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the North American country this month, a Canadian daily has reported.

“There is a fairly late-stage negotiation on and I think it’s likely to conclude successfully,” The Globe and Mail on Friday quoted a source familiar with the Canada-India uranium supply talks as saying.

“I just don’t know whether it’s going to conclude by next week.”

Modi will visit Canada from April 14 to 16 on the last leg of his ongoing three-nation tour.

The report cited a Facebook post by the Indian Prime Minister in which he stated that he looked “forward to resuming our civil nuclear energy cooperation with Canada, especially for sourcing uranium fuel for our nuclear power plants”.

Canada had banned exports of uranium and nuclear hardware to India in the 1970s after New Delhi allegedly used Canadian technology to build a nuclear bomb. 

However, the two countries turned the page in 2013 with the signing of the Canada-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, which effectively meant that Ottawa no longer saw New Delhi as a nuclear pariah but as a safe, responsible nuclear power despite the latter’s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The Globe and Mail cited the source as saying that if the nuclear deal does not come through during Modi’s visit “then Ottawa and New Delhi will reiterate their commitment to Canada-India nuclear cooperation and say, ‘Cameco is in the middle of negotiations and we expect an announcement in due course’.”

Stewart Beck, who was Canada’s high commissioner to India from 2010 to 2014, is optimistic about the Cameco export deal as, according to him, high-level visits help clinch agreements.

Modi will be the first sitting prime minister of India to make a bilateral visit to Canada in 40 years. Four percent of Canada’s population is of Indian origin.

“The visit will, I think, increase the likelihood of a deal being concluded,” Beck said.

According to the report, top Cameco executives will be in Ottawa during Modi’s visit but the company said there are no plans for a private meeting with the Indian prime minister.

“We’ve been meeting with government officials and working towards a long-term supply agreement with India. At this point, we have not made any sales to India, but discussions continue,” Cameco spokesman Rob Gereghty was quoted as saying.

In case there is an agreement, Canada’s nuclear regulator, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, will have to approve shipments of the fuel. The deal would be for five or 10 years or more, according to the report. 

Indian High Commissioner to Canada Vishnu Prakash said India’s energy needs are growing rapidly as more people move to cities and the economy grows.

“We have a multi-fold objective,” he was quoted as saying.

“One is to expand our capacity of energy generation.

Second, to have clean energy, and therefore there is a very strong emphasis on nuclear energy and renewable energy. And for all these reasons, we have been working closely with our partner countries, and Canada is one of our very important partners, to attain those objectives.”

The Canadian Nuclear Horn (Daniel 7:7)

Modi’s Canada visit may clinch uranium deal

ANIRBAN BHAUMIK , NEW DELHI: MARCH 30, 2015, DHNS

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ottawa next month may see a much awaited commercial agreement being signed paving way for Canada to supply uranium to India. 

“We look forward to resuming our civil nuclear energy cooperation with Canada, especially for sourcing uranium fuel for our nuclear power plants,” Modi posted on Facebook on Saturday. Sources told Deccan Herald that New Delhi and Ottawa might also announce joint research and development in the field of nuclear energy, focusing on augmenting capacity of Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors of India.

The prime minister will visit Canada from April 14 to 16 after touring France and Germany. He will meet his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper in Ottawa and will address business leaders in Toronto. Modi on Saturday noted that Canada was also the first country to have completed the requirements for civil nuclear cooperation with India after New Delhi secured the waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2008.

India and Canada signed the civil nuclear cooperation agreement in 2010 and followed it up by inking the administrative arrangement in 2012. Though India and United States clinched a nuclear deal in 2008, the protracted negotiations over administrative arrangement concluded only recently.

Cameco Corporation of Canada has since long been engaged in commercial negotiation for supplying uranium from its mines in the North American country to nuclear power plants in India.

Sources said that a breakthrough in the complex negotiation was expected soon and a deal might be clinched after Modi-Harper meeting in Ottawa. A senior government official said that New Delhi and Ottawa might also announce a joint research and development programme, primarily focusing on augmenting capacity of the Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors in India to 750 MW.

Ottawa had snapped its nuke ties with New Delhi after accusing the Indian government of using plutonium produced in reactor provided by Canada and installed in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Trombay for its first nuclear test in Pokhran in 1974.

Canada had supplied the nuclear reactor CIRUS to India in mid-1950s under the Atom for Peace Programme for civilian use of nuclear energy. The “Smiling Buddha”, as the first nuclear test on May 18, 1974, was codenamed, had triggered international uproar and Canada had immediately cut off supply of nuclear materials and technology to India.

Modi on Saturday also referred to France-India nuclear agreement. “France is one of our most important strategic partners, which has stood with us at difficult moments. We remember the understanding and support extended by France in 1998 after the Pokhran Tests,” he posted on Facebook.

“France has been a consistent supporter of India’s Membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group,” he added. – See more at: http://m.deccanherald.com/content/468669/modis-canada-visit-may-clinch.html/#sthash.WBclN8ST.dpuf

The Canadian Nuclear Horn: That’s A Lot Of Uranium Eh? (Daniel 7:7)

Cameco sees 2015 uranium output of 6-8 mln pounds at Canada mine

 

14th January 2015       By: Reuters

WINNIPEG – Canadian uranium producer Cameco said on Tuesday it expected its newest mine at Cigar Lake, Saskatchewan, to produce six-million to eight-million pounds of uranium concentrate in 2015.

The mine, which began production in March 2014, produced 340 000 lbs last year, in line with expectations, Cameco said in a statement after markets closed.

The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based company expects the mine to reach its full annual production rate of 18-million pounds by 2018.

Cameco operates the Cigar Lake mine and owns 50%, with smaller stakes held by Areva, Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Co and Idemitsu Kosan Co. Areva owns 70% of the McClean Lake mill, which processes ore from Cigar Lake, with smaller stakes owned by Denison Mines and Ourd Canada. 

The Canadian Nuclear Horn (Daniel 7:7)

Canada and India reach a deal to supply uranium

Scarborough Mirror

 

By Rakshande Italia

Canada and India signed a path-breaking nuclear deal this week, which will strengthen and solidify economic and trade prospects between the two countries.

The deal, brokered in record time, is a feather in Canada’s cap as its one of the first deals India has signed with the western country and far ahead of a yet-to-be completed deal India has with the U.S.

Under the terms of the deal, Canada will supply uranium to India for Indian nuclear reactors as it aims to increase its capacity to generate more electricity in the coming decade. To make the deal happen, John Baird, Canada’s foreign minister was in New Delhi this week to sign the deal after a series of meetings with senior Indian members and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj, India’s foreign minister.

In an interview given to India’s largest daily English newspaper, The Times of India, Baird said ” the agreement starts a new chapter in relations with India.”

Canada will also express support for India’s membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group even as the two countries plan to build on higher capacity nuclear reactors. India’s Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) calls for the upgrading of Indian nuclear reactors from their current capacity of 200MW to 750MW.

Both the countries will also come together in some joint efforts as well.

In late October, the two countries will co-host an upcoming nuclear security workshop in India with 15 countries participating in the summit.

This is a first for India as it organizes a meeting of this magnitude with another host country.

India is also going to tap into Canada’s skill development resources in the hydrocarbon and water management sectors.

Baird said Canada was excited to be a supplier of oil and gas to help India attain its development goals and Canadian companies with experience in green energy would help India tackle some of their environmental challenges.

In other news, Canada’s new high commissioner to India is Nadir Patel, the Indian born, but Canadian raised young 44-year-old diplomat.

Patel was born in Gujarat, India and his parents emigrated to Canada when he was a child.

Interestingly Patel comes from the same state as India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and speaks the same language – Gujarati – at home.

Patel went to Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo where he finished his under-graduate in political science in 1993. After graduating, he joined the Federal Public Service and rose in rank.

Up until three years ago Patel was Canada’s consul general in Shanghai. He was recently the assistant deputy minister for corporate planning, finance and information technology in Ottawa, as well as the and chief financial officer at foreign affairs, Trade and Development Canada.

Patel will be in India and his mission among other things is to increase trade between the two countries.

Currently, bilateral trade between the two countries is pegged at $6 billion, and is short of the $15 billion that was supposed to have been reached by 2015 pledged by the prime ministers of the two countries some years ago.

Why Canada Is One Of Ten Nuclear Horns (Revelation 7:7)

India, Canada clinch nuclear deal in record time

Indrani Bagchi,TNN | Oct 15, 2014, 07.09 AM IST

NEW DELHI: Canada and India are negotiating commercial contracts for supply of uranium for Indian nuclear reactors. “The nuclear agreement starts a new chapter in relations with India,” said John Baird, Canada’s foreign minister in an exclusive conversation with TOI.

Baird is in Delhi for the second round of strategic dialogue he held with Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday.
The restart of nuclear cooperation with Canada has been a long journey for both countries. Therefore it was a pleasant surprise to nuclear watchers here when India and Canada concluded their nuclear deal in virtually record time. The India-US deal still remains unconsummated and it will be a while before all the procedures are completed on the India-Australia front.

Canada expressing support for Indian membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group. The two countries plan to cooperate on building higher capacity nuclear reactors. Indian reactors are based on the CANDU model. The DAE wants to upgrade Indian nuclear reactors from their current capacity of 200MW to 750MW, MEA spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said as he brief on the discussions.

As a result of the conversations between Baird and Swaraj, the two countries will do some joint development. They will also joint host a nuclear security workshop in India with some 15 countries, the first such meet India would be organizing with another country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have his first meeting with his Canadian counterpart, Stephen Harper, in Brisbane on the sidelines of the G-20 summit. Baird said, “I was very pleased to extend an invitation from Prime Minister Harper to Mr Modi to visit Canada as early as possible. I should add I had the pleasure of inviting him to Canada years ago, and we’ve never had any visa problems. We have had numerous ministers and parliamentarians who have visited him in Gujarat.”

The Khalistan issue is never far from India-Canada discussions. “Canada and India share a painful past when it comes to terrorism,” Baird said. “When I was in high school one of the victims of the Air India crash was a fellow student. So it’s a personal experience when I was very young. Terrorism is the great struggle of our generation from the Air India crash through 9/11 to what we are seeing today in Iraq.”

Skill development is something the Indian government is tapping Canada for. Akbaruddin said this would be mainly in the hydrocarbon and water management sectors.

Baird said, “We are excited about being a reliable supplier of oil and gas and helping India attain its development goals. Canadian companies have a lot of experience in green energy, and we hope they can lend their expertise to the new government as it seeks to tackle its challenges.”

Earlier, the Canadian foreign minister met Modi. A statement from the PMO said, “The Prime Minister welcomed close cooperation between India and Canada and expressed satisfaction at comprehensive nature of bilateral ties, including in areas of economic cooperation, agriculture, security, civil nuclear energy, education, and science and technology.”