Explanation
- A
The civilian nuclear reactors come under IAEA safeguards.
(a) The civilian nuclear reactors come under IAEA safeguards. (a) Official key: India’s Additional Protocol (ratified 2014) widens IAEA access to declared civil nuclear facilities and related information. Military facilities stay outside safeguards. That civilian-safeguards implication is the stored key.
- B
The military nuclear installations come under the inspection of IAEA.
(b) Military installations do not come under IAEA inspection. This letter is not the key.
- C
The country will have the privilege to buy uranium from the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
(c) NSG fuel access followed the 2008 waiver and bilateral 123-type deals, not automatic privilege from the Additional Protocol alone. This is not the key.
- D
The country automatically becomes a member of the NSG.
(d) Additional Protocol ratification does not confer NSG membership. This is not the key.
Summary. Official key is (a). The Additional Protocol strengthens IAEA safeguards on the civil nuclear cycle. It does not open military sites, buy an NSG seat, or by itself guarantee uranium from the Group. Honour the stored letter (a).
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