Engineer held with pictures of Kalpakkam reactor

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Source: Times of India

An engineer was arrested for trying to smuggle out photographs of the fast breeder reactor at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research at Kalpakkam near Chennai on Wednesday. Central Industrial Security Force guards who arrested M Shaffir Ali, 28, seized four pen drives containing more than 400 photographs of the sensitive installation.

Ali, hired by a contractor involved in the construction of the reactor, had worked in the structural engineering section of the plant for the past four years. The guards arrested him when they found him moving shiftily in a restricted area on Wednesday.

The CISF guards found Ali, who attempted to escape when they stopped him, was carrying four pen drives, a cellphone and a card reader. The CISF informed the Kalpakkam police about Ali's detention and handed him over to them.

Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, which is developing the country's first fast breeder reactor, is not under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

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Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Engineer-held-with-pictures-of-Kalpakkam-reactor/articleshow/21696904.cms

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This is a military fast breeder reactor.
Under Bush's stupid "Nukes for Mangoes" deal, India gets to declare which reactors are civilian and which are military.
The military reactors are the ones "not under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."
They are used for making nuclear weapons.

It's not clear what this engineer was doing.
Maybe he was a whistleblower documenting poor construction methods.
Maybe he was a peace activist who wanted to expose the nuclear weapons work.
Maybe he was a terrorist getting detailed layouts for planning an attack.
Maybe he was paid by Pakistan to spy on this dangerous threat from India.
Maybe he was paid by Pakistan to sabotage the reactor.
Maybe he just wanted to keep a personal portfolio of his work.

Article via http://www.nucpros.com/content/engineer-held-pictures-kalpakkam-reactor

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Must be some problems there - started construction in 2004

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estimated cost 35 billion, up to 65 billion and not completed yet.

However, I see no indication it is for nuclear weapons, although it may well be a byproduct to supply plutonium,

a result of the process of making hydro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_Fast_Breeder_Reactor

CC

[bananas]

3. Yes, plutonium production for nuclear weapons.

That was the purpose of "Nukes for Mangoes".
India reached "Peak Uranium" and was running its reactors at 50%.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x107257

[cosmicone]

2. A Pakistani agent no doubt n/t