For the past 18 months AWE has co-operated with non-nuclear Norway and a London-based NGO, the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (Vertic), on techniques for verifying that when a country promises to cut weapons, it really does.
No. 3 contains 32 MOX fuel rods, or about 5 percent of the total, according to Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, an anti-nuclear power organization which is considered a credible source of information.
University of Pennsylvania bioethicist and msnbc.com contributor Art Caplan said there are times when you can share too much scientific information with nuclear weapons, biological weapons and the like despite the desire for open research.