Before 2000, America encouraged Argentina to export nuclear research reactors to Peru, Egypt, Algeria and Australia.
Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, Atomstroiexport, is building the plant under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.
Determined to give effect to its unmet 31 July demand that Iran suspend all uranium enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, the Security Council today imposed sanctions on that country, blocking the import or export of sensitive nuclear materiel and equipment and freezing the financial assets of persons or entities supporting its proliferation sensitive nuclear activities or the development of nuclear-weapon delivery systems.
In Moscow, the talk is about freeing up the country's vast oil and gas reserves for profitable export, by using nuclear power to meet domestic needs.
At the same time, Japan can and should continue to develop nuclear power technology and safety and actively export its technology to overseas markets.
"It's a smart scheme, " says Jeremy Gordon, a writer and analyst at the London-based World Nuclear Association, adding that with additional nuclear energy at home, Russia can export more of its abundant natural gas.
Japanese nuclear-power builders are increasingly looking to export their reactors, as domestic utilities have kept reactors offline and put off plans for any new construction.
The change is being caused by the expiration of the HEU-LEU contract, signed in 1993 by Russia and the US. The treaty, which expires in 2013, allowed the duty-free export of Soviet uranium extracted from nuclear warheads.
In a surprising bit of news, we learned that Germany is set to export more energy than ever despite its nuclear energy phase-out, because of the country's heavy investment in green energy.
Experts say that by this process, this means that no new bombs of plutonium are being made, no better bombs, and it makes it much less likely that North Korea is able to export its knowledge, its expertise or any material that could be used for nuclear weapons.
It says it needs nuclear power as an alternative energy source to meet booming electricity demand and preserve its large oil and gas reserves for export.
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