Yet, while these countries, along with North Korea state they are using nuclear fuel for electrical power, where are their repositories? The region these plants are in can't be more sensitive for global security, yet there is more fuss over the production of nuclear fuel than over the storage of the waste or the limiting of any transportation out of these countries. I mean they do export their waste to a permanent nuclear nation, right?
February 23, 2013
It said 16 sites had been identified as suitable for the construction of new power plants over the next 15 years.
Iran said the find - which has not been independently confirmed - would treble the size of known uranium deposits.
Under UN sanctions, Iran is banned from importing nuclear material. It is due to hold talks with Western powers on Tuesday about its nuclear programme.
The US and its allies are widely believed to be planning to offer Iran some relief from sanctions at the talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
France confirmed a "substantial" new offer would be made, French news agency AFP quoted the foreign ministry as saying.
Three rounds of meetings in Moscow ended last June in stalemate.
Iran denies charges that it is secretly developing atomic weapons and insists that as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) it is entitled to develop a nuclear power programme....
India has no nuclear weapons. I don't know why it would be so difficult for Pakistan to get rid of it's nukes.
February 23, 2013
...Since the very beginning, (click here) Pakistan’s nuclear programme has been facing negligible internal and significant external opposition. In reality, the internal nuclear abolitionists have miserably failed to cultivate their viewpoint in the Pakistani society.
The people of Pakistan have simply rejected their judgment about the demerits or repercussions of nuclear weapons in the strategic environment of South Asia. They have vehemently supported the nuclear programme and defied the malicious propaganda unleashed to hinder Islamabad’s pursuit to acquire indigenous nuclear weapons capability.
Concurrently, the Government of Pakistan had constituted and implemented both short and long term policies to develop the country’s nuclear deterrence capability, particularly after India’s nuclear explosion in Rajasthan on May 18, 1974....
Moreover, it has been intelligently addressing the security challenges to its nuclear infrastructure. Therefore, there has been no recorded incident of sabotage or theft of the Pakistani nuclear material to date....
