A delegate of the 2011 of the India nuclear energy Summit passes in front of a stall in Mumbai September 29, 2011.© AFP/Indranil Mukherjee
Washington - the India has developed a secret site that could be used to enrich uranium more than nuclear weapons, an American think-tank, said on Wednesday, citing satellite images.
The Institute for Science and International Security, a private group is opposed to nuclear proliferation, said the India seems to be finished a second plant of gas centrifuges in its rare materials plant near the southern city of Mysore.
"This new facility that could significantly increase the capacity of India to produce highly enriched uranium for military purposes, including the most powerful nuclear weapons,", said the Institute in a report that analyzes an image taken in April.
The Institute said that the India began building a second centrifuge plant near Mysore in 2010, but he did not know if it was a replacement for the first settlement on the site or a supplement.
If it is a new establishment, "the India could have more than doubled its enrichment capacity, if the original building continues to operate as an enrichment plant," he said.
India closely guard its nuclear sites and little about them, said publicly. In the past, the India complained images of sensitive infrastructures taken by commercial satellites such as Google Earth services.
The Indian authorities have said that highly enriched uranium of Mysore would fuel its new nuclear submarines. The India nuclear weapons program has always been based on plutonium, not uranium.
The India conducted nuclear tests in 1998, and historic rival Pakistan quickly seated step. The India program is not subject to international restrictions or inspections as it is one of the few countries with Israel, North Korea and Pakistan, to reject the non-proliferation Treaty, which said that New Delhi is discriminatory.
However, the international isolation of the India ended a cooperation agreement of 2008 with the United States, where W. President George Bush and his successor Barack Obama agreed that the greatest democracy in the world as a responsible nuclear power.
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