India and the United States on Friday released the text of the 123 Agreement simultaneously in New Delhi and Washington.Following are the key aspects of the nuclear deal:

• The agreement not to hinder or interfere with India's nuclear programme for military purposes.
• US will help India negotiate with the IAEA for an India-specific fuel supply agreement.
• Washington will support New Delhi develop strategic reserves of nuclear fuel to guard against future disruption of supply.
• In case of disruption, US and India will jointly convene a group of friendly supplier countries to include nations like Russia [Images], France [Images] and the UK to pursue such measures to restore fuel supply.
• Both the countries agree to facilitate nuclear trade between themselves in the interest of respective industries and consumers.
• India and the US agree to transfer nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment and components.
• Any special fissionable material transferred under the agreement shall be low enriched uranium.
• Low enriched uranium can be transferred for use as fuel in reactor experiments and in reactors for conversion or fabrication.
• The ambit of the deal include research, development, design, construction, operation, maintenance and use of nuclear reactors, reactor experiments and decommissioning.
• The US will have the right to seek return of nuclear fuel and technology but it will compensate for the costs incurred as a consequence of such removal.