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  • Steps Toward a Deal on Enhanced Safeguards for Iran’s Nuclear Program
    Arms Control Today
    March 3, 2011

    Because Iran is not likely to give up its existing uranium-enrichment capability, the United States and its allies should redouble efforts to enhance nuclear monitoring inside Iran. It is important to choose wisely among the options, which vary widely in cost, technical effectiveness, and political feasibility.

     
  • IAEA Board Approves Fuel Bank Plan
    Arms Control Today
    January 10, 2011

    The International Atomic Energy Agency’s board endorsed a plan for an IAEA-controlled reserve of low-enriched uranium. The vote was less divided than one a year earlier on a Russian fuel bank proposal.

  • N. Korea Reveals Uranium-Enrichment Plant
    Arms Control Today
    December 5, 2010

    North Korea unveiled a large uranium-enrichment pilot plant to a visiting team of former U.S. officials and academics Nov. 12, complicating efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and potentially providing the country with another path to nuclear weapons.
  • GAO Finds Problems in Tritium Production
    Arms Control Today
    November 4, 2010

    Technical problems have prevented the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) from producing as much tritium as it planned, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report released last month.

    Although the NNSA currently is meeting the tritium requirements for the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, “its ability to do so in the future is in doubt,” said the GAO, the investigative arm of Congress.
  • Work at North Korea Reactor Site Unclear
    Arms Control Today
    November 4, 2010

    North Korea is engaged in new construction work near its dormant nuclear reactor, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Oct. 5, raising concerns that Pyongyang is preparing to reconstitute the plant used to produce plutonium for its nuclear weapons. Yet, experts said that the purpose of the construction work seen via satellite photos is not clear and does not appear consistent with efforts to rebuild critical reactor structures.
  • Iran Nuclear Efforts Face Critical Limits
    Arms Control Today
    November 4, 2010

    Iran continues to face considerable technical difficulties with key aspects of its nuclear program, the former head of safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in October.

    Olli Heinonen, who was the deputy director-general for safeguards at the IAEA until August, said in an Oct. 22 interview with Haaretz that because of problems Iran is facing with its gas centrifuge uranium-enrichment plant, “they are losing materials…and so, with this defective equipment, they will have a hard time enriching the material to a level high enough to enable the production of nuclear weapons.”
  • News Briefs
    Arms Control Today
    November 4, 2010
  • Israel and Multilateral Nuclear Approaches in the Middle East
    Arms Control Today
    October 6, 2010
  • India, U.S. Agree on Terms for Reprocessing
    Arms Control Today
    May 5, 2010

    India and the United States in late March concluded negotiations on an agreement for the reprocessing of U.S.-origin spent nuclear fuel, removing one of the key remaining barriers to nuclear trade between the two countries.
  • Iran to Mass-Produce Improved Centrifuges
    Arms Control Today
    May 5, 2010

    Iranian officials announced last month that Iran would begin mass-producing a second-generation centrifuge in the coming months, a step that could lead to an increase in the rate at which Iran enriches uranium.