Combating the risk of nuclear terrorism by reducing the civilian use of highly enriched uranium

Every effort must be made to eliminate all uses of highly enriched uranium in civilian nuclear programmes.

The global stockpile of highly enriched uranium is about 1,300, at the low end, to about 2,100 metric tons.

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With respect to the application of sensitive materials in civilian nuclear programmes, the continued use of highly enriched uranium was particularly worrisome.

About 121 incidents were reported to the Agency in 2004, some of which involved weapons usable highly enriched uranium or plutonium being smuggled across national borders.

A moratorium on the production and use of highly enriched uranium for civilian use should be negotiated, with a total ban as a long term objective.

There are many, many sites where warheads are stored and, in fact, lots of sites where fissionable materials, like highly enriched uranium and plutonium, are absolutely not safe.

Among a number of worrying cases, a significant amount of highly enriched uranium was discovered in the Caucasus and it is possible that a larger amount remains unaccounted for.

If Iran were interested solely in peaceful uses, the Russian offer or some other plan (such as placing stocks of low enriched uranium in Iran) could meet their needs. Iran s insistence on enrichment inside the country is widely attributed to its desire to produce highly enriched uranium for a bomb.

From 1993 through 2006, the International Atomic Energy Agency documented 175 cases of nuclear theft, 18 of which involved highly enriched uranium or plutonium, the key ingredients to make a nuclear weapon.

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.

We believe that that project, together with Kazakhstan's national practices in the processing of highly enriched uranium into low grade nuclear material, could serve as a model for the development of such projects in other countries.

Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is of particular concern in this context, due to the technical feasibility of constructing a crude nuclear explosive device from HEU, making it a possible choice for a terrorist group non State actor.

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And found you in need, and enriched you?

In 2011, for example, Moldovan police seized highly enriched uranium from a group of smugglers who were trying to sell it. The smugglers, exhibiting a worrying level of technical knowledge, had tried to evade detection by building a shielded container.

Every technically competent person knows that the paths to civilian nuclear power and to nuclear weapons are the same, except for a few last, comparatively simple steps. The hard part is obtaining the fissionable materials plutonium or highly enriched uranium.

For its part, after announcing the cessation of the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, France decided in February 1996 to close and dismantle its facilities for the production of such materials at Pierrelatte and Marcoule.

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And He found thee destitute, so He enriched thee.

11. Also welcomes the independent action taken by the United States of America to dispose of 174 metric tons of excess highly enriched uranium from its nuclear weapons programme, of which 50 metric tons have already been down blended for use as reactor fuel

This includes, in accordance with the IAEA definition, nuclear material that can be used for the manufacture of nuclear explosive devices without further adaptation or additional enrichment. This is plutonium containing less than 80 per cent plutonium 238, highly enriched uranium (HEU) and uranium 233.

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And did He not find you in want, and then enriched you?

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Of course, it is possible that these events are an aberration. After all, the only conflict so far in which authorities have lost control of sensitive nuclear materials was the Georgia Abkhazia War in the 1990s, when unknown forces seized a small amount of highly enriched uranium from a research institute.

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An incident in Moldova two years ago involving highly enriched uranium which can be used in a nuclear weapon illustrates both the scale of the threat and the possibility of effective counter measures if countries take the problem seriously. Police seized a quantity of the substance from an individual who was attempting to sell it.

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History shows us that all civilizations have been enriched and developed through dialogue and interaction with other civilizations.

Agreement on the supply and leasing of enriched uranium and the transfer of equipment and special nuclear materials

Their contributions have enriched the draft resolution, the implementation of which will facilitate the eradication of that deadly disease.