Nuclear Reactor Natural Nuclear Proliferation Countries

Recent efforts by north korea iraq and iran evidence this contradiction.

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Nuclear reactor exports are nearly nonexistent. A variety of plutonium and uranium isotopes the usual materials used to form the core of a nuclear warhead are found in spent nuclear fuel. In meetings with benoit revaz head of the swiss federal office of energy and georg schwarz deputy director general of the swiss federal nuclear safety inspectorate mr grossi and his hosts discussed the agencys work in nuclear decommissioning and nuclear safety and security.

The various safety upgrades at the beznau nuclear power plant reflect the longstanding swiss safety culture. To build a nuclear weapon. Not all used nuclear fuel material is suitable for bombs particularly the materials found in spent reactor fuel that has undergone a full cycle of use in a reactor.

Because nuclear power has significant benefits as an energy source particularly in regard to the fight against climate change and has a valuable role in other industries such as nuclear medicine it is important that the international community continue to manage proliferation risks in emerging nuclear countries. The international safeguards system has since 1970 successfully prevented the diversion of fissile materials into weapons. Concerns about energy security and global warming could spur a significant increase in nuclear energy use in the coming decades.

Nuclear energy emits very few greenhouse gases which contribute to global warming. Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons fissionable material and weapons applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as nuclear weapon states by the treaty on the non proliferation of nuclear weapons commonly known as the non proliferation treaty or nptproliferation has been opposed by many nations with and without nuclear weapons as. Accounting for less than 1 percent of the worlds natural uranium.

Its scope has been widened to address undeclared nuclear activities. So countries with nuclear ambitionspeaceful or notneed to first increase the proportion of u 235 in their uranium samples through a process called enrichment. Nuclear reactors produce plutonium as they operate which would conceivably be extracted and used for weapons.

The enrichment plants required to fuel reactors can be operated in such a way to produce weapon material. Westinghouse which is often put in this category hasnt. Thus any country with a nuclear reactor and a plutonium chemist or an enrichment plant can easily develop nuclear weapons.

There is thus a fundamental contradiction between efforts to avoid the proliferation of nuclear weapons and enthusiasm for the spread for commercial reasons of nuclear reactors to many developing countries. And a plutonium production reactor has a different design from a.