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Title: Haven't we been here before

Abstract

With news of new nonproliferation initiatives from US President Bill Clinton coinciding with the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, held in Vienna September 27 to October 1, delegates listened with interest to the US statement by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary to see if we were in for a rerun of the Carter era. As it happened, O'Leary - who had one unfortunate verbal slip with the [open quotes]Domestic,[close quotes] as opposed to Democratic, Peoples' Republic of Korea - did just manage to qualify all references to halting production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium with the words [open quotes]...for weapons purposes.[close quotes] Thus, the concerns in Europe and Japan that President Clinton might be about to enter into the current heated debate on reprocessing and recycle of plutonium from commercial power stations was partially allayed. There seems little doubt, however, that opposition groups in Europe will seize upon references to the difficulties of dealing with [open quotes]...unprecedented stocks of weapons grade nuclear materials,[close quotes] and plutonium in particular, for which, O'Leary said, [open quotes]...fully acceptable disposition technologies are not yet operational...[close quotes]

Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
7023049
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Nuclear News (La Grange Park, Illinois); (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 36:14; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5574
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; NUCLEAR MATERIALS POSSESSION; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; USA; NON-PROLIFERATION POLICY; IAEA; SAFEGUARD REGULATIONS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; REGULATIONS; 290600* - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy; 293000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Policy, Legislation, & Regulation

Citation Formats

. Haven't we been here before. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
. Haven't we been here before. United States.
. 1993. "Haven't we been here before". United States.
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abstractNote = {With news of new nonproliferation initiatives from US President Bill Clinton coinciding with the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, held in Vienna September 27 to October 1, delegates listened with interest to the US statement by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary to see if we were in for a rerun of the Carter era. As it happened, O'Leary - who had one unfortunate verbal slip with the [open quotes]Domestic,[close quotes] as opposed to Democratic, Peoples' Republic of Korea - did just manage to qualify all references to halting production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium with the words [open quotes]...for weapons purposes.[close quotes] Thus, the concerns in Europe and Japan that President Clinton might be about to enter into the current heated debate on reprocessing and recycle of plutonium from commercial power stations was partially allayed. There seems little doubt, however, that opposition groups in Europe will seize upon references to the difficulties of dealing with [open quotes]...unprecedented stocks of weapons grade nuclear materials,[close quotes] and plutonium in particular, for which, O'Leary said, [open quotes]...fully acceptable disposition technologies are not yet operational...[close quotes]},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7023049}, journal = {Nuclear News (La Grange Park, Illinois); (United States)},
issn = {0029-5574},
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volume = 36:14,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
}