<br/>Taking a step closer to implementation of their historic civil nuclear deal, India and the US have finalised negotiations on arrangements and procedures for reprocessing of American-origin spent fuel. This is a key step for implementation of the historic civil nuclear deal signed in October 2008. <br/><br/>The negotiations were held as per a clause in the 123 Agreement that mandated India to set up a dedicated reprocessing facility under IAEA safeguards where spent nuclear fuel from the US could be reprocessed. <br/><br/>The negotiations were concluded just ahead of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington to attend the Nuclear Security Summit on the sidelines of which the pact is expected to be signed. <br/><br/>We spoke to Commodore Uday Bhaskar of Indian Maritime Foundation about the agreement.