Where Is India's Plutonium Programme Going to Now?

India's tests have slowed down the nuclear collaboration with most of the other nuclear countries, as well as assistance from those countries. The current economic situation does not favor the steady development of nuclear power in the country. While there are domestic projects going on, and future collaboration is being planned with Russia, India might also increasingly turn towards non nuclear projects, which would be more readily subject to foreign assistance.

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