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An illusion of protection: Executive Summary: The unavoidable limitations of safegurards on nuclear materials and the export of uranium to China
| Author | ACF, MAPW, M.Beljac |
| Date | October 2006 |
| Classification | 4.22.6.50/03 (AUSTRALIA - EXPORT) |
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From the publication:
Foreword An Illusion of Protection includes a critique of the international nuclear safeguards system. It deals in particular with the proposed sale of Australian uranium to China. The report is an extremely valuable and topical one. It comes at a time when the world is on the brink of a rapid expansion of the use of nuclear-power reactors for the generation of electricity Exporters of uranium, of which Australia is one of the largest, have the power to determine the extent and nature of any nuclear renaissance. The nuclear fuel for many of the new reactors will contain a mixture of uranium and plutonium dioxides. The plutonium could easily be chemically removed from the fuel and could be used, by governments or terrorist groups, to fabricate nuclear weapons. Given the dire consequences that could follow a large expansion of the global use of nuclear power, uranium exporters have a special responsibility to consider whether they should continue to mine and trade in uranium. They should, above all, ask themselves: Will systems for the international control of nuclear materials, usually called nuclear safeguards, be adequate in tomorrow's world? The information in An Illusion of Protection will help them work out the answer. It should be read by all those involved in the uranium business and by all people interested in global security issues.
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