Specific concern was expressed about both the environmental and proliferation risks of plutonium reprocessing and nuclear materials shipments.

Pyongyang violated its obligations under the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty by secretly reprocessing enough plutonium to produce two nuclear weapons in the early 1990 s.

Russia has offered to provide nuclear enrichment and reprocessing services for the civilian reactor it is building in Iran.

Still, the plant along with its spent nuclear fuel, extracted plutonium, and nuclear reprocessing waste poses significant radiological hazards that a military strike could disperse into the environment.

Nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technologies are once again the subject of particular attention from the international community because of their dual use nature.

Israel started investigating the nuclear field soon after its founding in 1948 and with French support secretly began building a nuclear reactor and reprocessing plant in the late 1950s in Dimona.

Nuclear enrichment and reprocessing technologies are once again the subject of particular attention from the international community because of their dual use nature (civilian and military).

The participation of the largest possible number of States is vital first and foremost the nuclear Powers, but also countries which possess the potential to produce nuclear explosive devices and have uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing facilities.

Political constraints and monopolies in the area of fuel supply and reprocessing prevents developing countries from enjoying their inalienable right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy and risk the continuous and secure operation of their nuclear power plants.

And there is the disconcerting prospect that new civil nuclear energy players will insist on building uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing plants of their own, rightly described as bomb starter kits.

In addition, a number of countries with nuclear energy programs have the capability, if they choose, to manufacture nuclear weapons within a matter of months if their security perceptions change, because they have mastered the critical technology uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing.

No reprocessing or export of spent fuel has ever taken place.

Realizing the threat to the non proliferation regime, countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, France, Germany, and Japan formed a Nuclear Suppliers Group that restrained the export of enrichment and reprocessing facilities.

The Conference affirms the need to assure a reliable supply of nuclear fuel at reasonable cost to NPT parties that are in compliance with the Treaty and their safeguards obligations, which possess civil nuclear power reactors, and that do not pursue enrichment and reprocessing capabilities.

The spread of enrichment and reprocessing technology poses a particularly dangerous risk.

This would give countries confidence that they can count on reliable supplies of fuel to run their nuclear power plants, and therefore do not need to develop their own uranium enrichment or plutonium reprocessing capability.

An example of our policy is our joint project with the United States on the safe transportation of fresh highly enriched fuel of the BN 350 reactor and its reprocessing into low grade nuclear material.

One of the alternatives that the report analyses as an incentive for a State to forego the development of its own activities related to the complete nuclear fuel cycle, particularly as concerns enrichment and reprocessing, is to provide assurances of the supply of nuclear fuel based on various options.

Several decades from now, reprocessing might offer a safe means of spent fuel disposal.

As President Bush has proposed, tighter controls should be adopted on enrichment and reprocessing technologies.

But putting US weapons back into South Korea acquiring real missile capability allowing the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel moving closer to breakout capability all of these steps now have their advocates, and these voices will grow louder.

(f) Request also that a clause prohibiting the use of transferred items in the event of a withdrawal be included in intergovernmental agreements defining the modalities for transfers of sensitive nuclear goods (enrichment, reprocessing) or for large scale transfers

Among other things, it must ratify the additional protocol and suspend all enrichment and reprocessing activities.

The Conference understands that urgent measures are needed to curtail the spread of enrichment and reprocessing facilities, which are known to have been sought secretly by four NPT parties to date, in pursuit of nuclear weapons and in violation of the Treaty.

In the mid 1970's, many parties to the NPT planned to import and develop enrichment and reprocessing facilities.

An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.

One of the most important events was the building of a Vector production complex for waste storage and reprocessing.

Lastly, there should be better controls over operations involving uranium enrichment, plutonium reprocessing and the disposal of spent fuel and nuclear waste they were a veritable Achilles heel of the current non proliferation regime, and should be concentrated in a limited number of regional centres.

In addition, Israeli scientists probably helped construct the G 1 plutonium production reactor and UP 1 reprocessing plant at Marcoule.

In the Paris Agreement Iran subscribed to a total suspension of all activities connected with enrichment and all reprocessing activities.

In Resolution 1696 of 31 July 2006, the United Nations Security Council demanded that Iran suspend all enrichment and reprocessing related activities.

This is usually remedied by doing only incremental processing, i.e., processing only the data which have changed (usually new data) instead of reprocessing the entire data set.

Japan recognizes the importance of the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran has voluntarily continued and extended its suspension of all uranium enrichment related and reprocessing activities.

The Islamic Republic of Iran had signed the additional protocol in December 2003 and had undertaken to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities as a confidence building measure.

The quality of these materials for recycling and reprocessing purposes is not as high as initially recycled materials, however materials such as aluminum and steel are usually excluded from this.

Clearly, too, I would hope, in the next year or so, to make some progress with regard to establishing better control over the sensitive parts of the fuel cycle, namely, enrichment and reprocessing activities.

We also welcome the report's call for universal adoption of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Model Additional Protocol and its enrichment and reprocessing programmes because of the proliferation dangers posed by such weapons.

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It should be followed by an agreement that all new enrichment and reprocessing activities will be placed exclusively under multinational control, and that all existing such facilities will be converted from national to multinational control.

After it withdrew from a restraining agreement negotiated by the Clinton administration in 1994, it expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and began reprocessing spent fuel that could produce another six bombs worth of plutonium.

Nuclear non proliferation, nuclear disarmament and peaceful use of nuclear energy should be given equal treatment.

Achieving global nuclear disarmament will surely require new legal obligations for all states, nuclear and non nuclear.

The nuclear reactor core is the portion of a nuclear reactor where the nuclear reactions take place.

The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center is North Korea's major nuclear facility, operating its first nuclear reactors.