a new safeguard agreement was adopted in putting most of indias reactors under the safeguards of the international atomic energy agency iaea in the same year a consensus with the nuclear suppliers group has been reached exempting india from its rule of prohibiting trade with nonmembers of the nonproliferation treaty zaleski and cruciani these developments have given a considerable boost to the nuclear power prospects for india and have resulted in some shift in emphasis from developing the use of thorium to imported uranium at least for the near future as part of the th fiveyear plan the nuclear power corporation of india ltd npcil announced in that it will start site work for indigenously developed reactors comprising eight mw phwrs three mw fbrs and one mw ahwr