The Indo-Lanka civil nuclear agreement would not permit to dump its radioactive waste in Sri Lankan territory, a senior minister has said.

"Management of radioactive waste does not authorise to unload radioactive waste produced in Indian Nuclear Power Plants in Sri Lankan territory," Minister of Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka said.

The Minister was commenting on the bilateral agreement signed on February 16 in on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

He said the agreement focussed on peaceful uses of nuclear energy in line with multilateral conventions entered by both and



The agreement will facilitate cooperation in the transfer and exchange of knowledge, expertise, sharing of resources, capacity-building and training of personnel in peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Ranawaka said hopes to sign an MoU with on the development of nuclear applications.

A similar MoU had been already signed with a Russian state-owned atomic energy entity.