US embassy cable - 05NEWDELHI4715

C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 004715 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/21/2015 
TAGS: PREL, KNNP, IR, IN, India_Iran 
SUBJECT: INDIAN NON-PAPER ON BARC COOPERATION WITH IRAN 
 
Classified By: DCM Robert O. Blake, Jr. for Reasons 1.4 (B, D) 
 
1.  (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and 
Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary 
(International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms 
Control Stephen Rademaker the following nonpaper regarding 
possible cooperation between a Bhabha Atomic Research Center 
(BARC) scientist and an Iranian scientist on the computer 
code WIMS-D4.  Further discussion of this case in the context 
of the Nonproliferation Dialogue will follow septel.  Text of 
the non-paper follows: 
 
2.  (C) Begin text of GOI non-paper: 
 
The US side had raised the issue of an Iranian researcher 
having received information from a Babha Atomic Research 
Center (BARC) scientist on the computer code WIMS-D4. 
 
The IAEA has a TC project IRA/4/023 "Strengthening Owner,s 
Functions for BNPP" related to the Bushehr Nuclear Power 
Project.  An Expert Mission 'Advice on Developing a Core 
Group in NPPD for Fuel Management' was organized by IAEA as 
apart of this project on June 8-12, 2002.  Dr. V. Jagannathan 
(Reactor Physics Design Division, BARC) was one of the 
members of this Expert Mission along with representatives 
from the IAEA, the Netherlands, and Hungary.  The objective 
of the Mission was to explore the requirements of assistance 
in development/review of fuel management, core mapping and 
burn-up calculations for BNPP. 
 
Subsequently, a workshop was to be held in Vienna during 
November 15-23, 2004, in which Dr. Jagannathan, though 
invited, did not participate and where WIMS-D4 might have 
been discussed.  Dr. Jagannathan is also not familiar with 
this code.  Any suggestion of his interacting with the 
Iranians on WIMS-D4 is, therefore, misplaced.  It is also 
well known that WIMS-D4 is an internationally available 
multi-group lattice code for thermal reactor analysis that 
does not simulate any fuel movement. 
 
End GOI text. 
MULFORD