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Fuel Cycle

  • Efforts to Limit Fuel Cycle Capabilities Falter
    Arms Control Today
    September 2, 2008

    As the Bush administration seeks to curtail the spread of uranium-enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing technologies abroad, its preferred approaches are losing needed support. These include the controversial Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) and a moratorium among the world's richest countries on exports of the sensitive technologies. (Continue)
  • National Fuel Stockpiles: An Alternative to a Proliferation of National Enrichment Plants?
    Arms Control Today
    September 2, 2008

    Iran's national uranium-enrichment program has provoked international concern, evidenced by UN Security Council sanctions and even threats of possible military attack, because it provides the means to make highly enriched uranium and thereby a fast route to nuclear weapons. Iran's program is also the current focus of the continuing international debate over the spread of national enrichment and reprocessing capabilities. (Continue)
  • Reforming the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Time Is Running Out
    Arms Control Today
    September 2, 2008

    Revelations earlier this decade about Iran's clandestine nuclear activities reignited global concerns that the spread of such sensitive fuel-cycle technology would lead to nuclear weapons proliferation. In a 2003 Economist op-ed, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei proposed that the time was right to re-examine multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle. (Continue)
  • The Middle East and Nonproliferation: An Interview with Nabil Fahmy, Egypt’s Ambassador to the United States
    Arms Control Today
    September 1, 2008

    Ambassador Nabil Fahmy has served in Egypt's Foreign Ministry for 30 years and has focused particularly on disarmament and regional security issues. Most recently, he acted as Cairo's ambassador to Washington from October 1999 to August 2008. On July 21, Arms Control Today spoke with Ambassador Fahmy on a variety of issues, including Egypt's perspective on the global nuclear nonproliferation regime, the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, and concerns regarding Iran's nuclear program. (Continue)
  • Bush’s Nuclear Reprocessing Plan Under Fire
    Arms Control Today
    August 7, 2008

    The Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program, already under siege, has been further imperiled after recent action by several congressional panels and an April report from the congressional watchdog agency. (Continue)
  • Brazil, Argentina Pursue Nuclear Cooperation
    Arms Control Today
    April 1, 2008
  • Bush Calls for More GNEP, MOX Facility Funds
    Arms Control Today
    March 1, 2008
  • Concerns Raised as South Korea Joins GNEP
    Arms Control Today
    January 25, 2008
  • Congress Alters Bush’s Fuel Cycle Plans
    Arms Control Today
    January 25, 2008
  • Revived U.S.-Indian Deal Heads to IAEA
    Arms Control Today
    December 1, 2007