ISIS Report on Expansion of India’s Uranium Enrichment Facilities

ISIS Report on Expansion of Indian Enrichment Facility

by David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini

Commercial satellite imagery shows that the construction is finishing of what appears to be a second gas centrifuge facility at the Rare Materials Plant (RMP), near Mysore. This new facility could significantly increase India´s ability to produce highly enriched uranium for military purposes, including more powerful nuclear weapons. India is also in the early stages of building a larger unsafeguarded centrifuge complex, the Special Material Enrichment Facility (SMEF), in Karnataka. However, as a result of domestic opposition alleging this facility is on environmentally sensitive lands, the National Green Tribunal, the government environmental oversight body, ordered major construction to halt temporarily in August 2013.

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Construction Finishing of Likely New Indian Centrifuge Facility at Rare Materials Plant

by David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini - Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) 4 Deecember 2013