A new safeguard agreement was adopted in 2008, putting most of India's 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 Non-Proliferation Treaty (Zaleski and Cruciani, 2009). 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 11th Five-Year Plan, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) announced in 2008 that it will start site work for 12 indigenously developed reactors, comprising eight 700 MW PHWRs, three 500 MW FBRs and one 300 MW AHWR.