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...reprocess spent nuclear fuel. By 1976, it was in the final stages of buying a reprocessing plant from France when the U.S. pressured Seoul to end the program. Washington suspected Korea wouldn't merely reprocess the fuel for power generation, but was planning to use the technology to make plutonium for atomic weapons. For Kim Chul, the nuclear expert who headed the project, the reprocessing dream never died. Kim keeps the only known copy of the project blueprints on a shelf in his study. "We should own that technology," says Kim. "We were stopped by international society...
...That unlikely tale was Seoul's explanation last week for the startling news that its scientists had been caught enriching uranium?the very activity Washington is trying to get North Korea to halt. (Pyongyang also has a plutonium-based weapons program, the focus of continuing six-nation negotiations.) South Korea foreswore its nuclear weapons program in 1975, and has since been under the inspection regime of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. Last February, the government signed a protocol giving the IAEA the right to more information and to inspect sites anywhere in the country. Seoul had six months...
...safe havens for terrorists. Those with materials useful for making WMD—such as the nuclear stockpiles in the ex-Soviet states—often lack the resources to secure those materials (and to pay guards enough to keep them from supplementing their income by selling a little plutonium or anthrax on the side). Such “loose nukes” and other deadly materials are at risk of falling into terrorist hands. Over many decades, a substantial investment in the economic development of the world’s poorest countries would yield dividends in the form...
...ICRC spokeswoman said that two of the organization's officials checked on Saddam's health condition. Nuclear Prowess LIBYA The International Atomic Energy Agency said that Libya had clandestinely acquired a range of nuclear technology and expertise and had even succeeded in producing a small amount of plutonium before Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi announced in December that the country was abandoning its unconventional weapons program. Road to Peace Mapped KASHMIR India and Pakistan agreed to a staggered timetable for peace talks to begin after Indian elections due to be held in April, and to include negotiations over the disputed Himalayan...
...asked for his thoughts, Professor of Physics and nuclear scientist John Doyle said that “anyone who needs to work with such materials would benefit from a discussion with [the Department of Environmental Health and Safety].” Would it ever be okay to have enriched plutonium in, say, Canaday? His reply was an unsurprising, yet unwavering...