Speakers recall indigenous efforts behind its commissioning

CHENNAI: M.R. Srinivasan, a former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), said on Wednesday that the 123 nuclear agreement between India and the U.S. provided India "an honourable entry into the international community' of nuclear countries, and asserted that those who raised doubts about the agreement had nothing to back them. "Instead of grabbing the opportunity, some of us are afraid and reluctant' to go ahead with the agreement, he said at Kalpakkam, 60 km from Chennai.