Seoul Seeks Ability to Make Nuclear Fuel
WASHINGTON—South Korea is pressing the Obama administration for U.S. permission to produce its own nuclear fuel, a move that nonproliferation experts said could trigger a wider nuclear-arms race in North Asia and the Middle East.
The negotiation between Seoul and Washington, though part of a broader, long-term civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, is taking place as nuclear pressures swell on both sides of the Korean peninsula.
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U.S. negotiators fear that allowing South Korea to develop any of the requested technologies would have knock-on effects across the Middle East and Asia, where the U.S. has sought in recent years to seal deals that forbid countries from producing their own nuclear fuel. Jordan, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia could demand the same terms, and it would reinforce Iran's desire to continue with its nuclear program, these people worry.
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South Korea has argued that it shouldn't be wholly reliant on outside counties for the nuclear fuel that powers much of its electrical supply. South Korea has stressed that the reprocessing technology it is seeking to master, called pyro processing, is crucial to managing its growing nuclear waste, which could potentially pose an environmental threat.
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...and you can pick up all you can carry home from right off the ground. It's every-fucking-where. Literally.
- Geeze, don't people learn any fucking thing??? At All!?!?!
