U.S., India reach agreement on reprocessing

Amid congratulatory statements about a new "win-win" era in U.S.-India relations, nuclear weapons experts warned that a new agreement giving India the right to reprocess spent nuclear fuel presents proliferation dangers.   "At a time when nuclear terrorism and proliferation concerns are only increasing, the United States should be doing everything it can to stop existing reprocessing, not facilitate more," said Edwin Lyman, an expert on nuclear proliferation at the Ploughshares-funded Union of Concerned Scientists.  He said that under the agreement, India could reprocess the fuel to extract weapons-usable plutonium, which could pose a risk of terrorism or theft.