Posted on 07/15/2005 10:09:57 PM PDT by HAL9000
VIENNA, July 16 KYODO -The International Atomic Energy Agency seeks to put eight to 10 nuclear facilities, including ones in Japan, the United States, Russia and Finland, under international management, diplomatic sources close to the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday.
They include a reprocessing facility in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, while some of the others may be newly built under the initiative, they said.
The IAEA plans to submit a draft to address the initiative to a board of directors meeting in September and put it into practice by 2010, when the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference will convene, the sources said.
The IAEA's drive for the international management of sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, in particular uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing technology, has drawn opposition from Japan, the United States and Iran as they view the move as infringing on state sovereignty on the use of nuclear energy.
Russia and some other countries basically support the idea.
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei set out the basic idea of international management of the facilities in the fall of 2003 to prevent nuclear proliferation via nuclear projects in North Korea and Iran under the guise of peaceful purposes.
The goal is to allow uranium enrichment and plutonium to be extracted from nuclear waste only at the internationally managed facilities and to provide nuclear fuel from these facilities to countries that do not host them.
The draft calls for first imposing a five-year moratorium on building new nuclear fuel cycle facilities and establishing a system to guarantee that the international supply of fuel from the facilities is placed under international management.
It then seeks to put the eight to 10 facilities under the IAEA's control to work as the respective region's core facility to produce, provide and reprocess nuclear fuel, while storing and disposing of nuclear waste, according to the sources.
Actually it started in GHWB administration. Clinton kicked it into high gear and now, just about every regional planner is a devotee. Check out this site, it helps explain what's going on and how to fight, check out the link for sustainable development.
http://www.freedom21santacruz.net/site/
Thanks. I downloaded the pdf and will check it out later.
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