Foreign nuclear sales continue

Journal Article · Fri Aug 20 04:00:00 EDT 1976 · Energy Dig. (Wash., D.C.); (United States)

OSTI ID:7353662

The latest efforts of the U.S. to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons finds Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pressing foreign countries to cancel nuclear sales while the U.S. State Department endorses an agreement for more foreign sales under what officials described as ''the toughest safeguards ever''. The French are completing plans for the sale of a nuclear reprocessing plant to Pakistan and to sell two nuclear generating plants to South Korea. The source of the heavy water used in producing India's 1974 atomic explosion has been most probably determined to be from the U.S. Canada has terminated its nuclear cooperation with India because a Canadian research reactor was used in the maiden blast. Egypt and Israel have approved agreements to buy atomic reactor plants originally promised them by President Nixon; the State Department says the agreements contain ''the most stringent safeguards of any agreements'' ever signed with foreign countries to preclude use of nuclear by-products in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. (MCW)

• OSTI ID: 7353662
• Journal Information: Energy Dig. (Wash., D.C.); (United States), Journal Name: Energy Dig. (Wash., D.C.); (United States) Vol. 6:10; ISSN EGYDA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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