The company has also talked to other nuclear nations such as India and Russia about its 4G research.
In 2006, the administration created the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, an international program among nuclear nations that, among other things, seeks to develop ways to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.
The document will more clearly say the U.S. will not attack non-nuclear nations that have signed and are complying with the U.N. nonproliferation treaty, according to officials familiar with it.
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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This includes the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the multilateral partnership that strengthens nuclear security, prevent nuclear trafficking and assist nations in building their capacity to secure their nuclear materials.
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Japan Nuclear Fuel's Mr. Fukushi stressed that the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, will closely monitor Rokkasho's operation to guard against potential diversion of the weapons-usable plutonium.
The likely emergence of smaller, less-predictable nuclear-armed nations over the next few years creates a different equation.
The chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has called for access to Iran's Parchin military site "without further delay" and without waiting for negotiations to make progress.
U.S. and European officials said a test for any potential new negotiations will be Iran's treatment of inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, who will visit Tehran next week.
Finally, to ensure the peaceful use of nuclear energy, the United States seeks a new framework for civil nuclear cooperation among nations, including an international fuel bank and the necessary resources and authority to strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Obama reaffirmed the U.S. alliance with South Korea and said North Korea, which is under U.N. sanctions for its efforts to start a nuclear program, could join the community of nations by dropping all nuclear ambitions.
We respect the right of nations to access peaceful nuclear power, but one of the purposes of the United Nations is to see that we harness that power for peace.
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The IAEA (The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency) is involved.
At the same time, the spread of nuclear arms to new nations has become an increasingly worrisome trend.
Talks between Iran and the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency are "going around in circles, " the agency's director general told a meeting of U.N. officials in Vienna on Monday.
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.
As is true in most nations, nuclear operators are required to report more problems to authorities than operators of conventional, fossil-fuel plants, so there is more detail on even minor occurrences.
There is no getting around the fact that Mr. Reagan abhorred nuclear weapons and was sorely tempted by an offer made by then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986 to eliminate the two nations' nuclear arsenals.
The United States and other nations fear that they might share nuclear weapons technology that they might acquire with other nations.
Germany has played a leading role in trying to break the diplomatic impasse over Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is aimed at generating civilian power but Western nations suspect is to develop nuclear weapons.
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America and Russia have pulled back from the brink, but India and Pakistan have increased the danger and the more nations that have nuclear weapons the greater the probability of war between them.
And to prevent terrorists from acquiring nuclear weapons, we came together at our Nuclear Security Summit, where our two nations made numerous commitments, including agreeing to eliminate enough plutonium for about 17, 000 nuclear weapons.
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Will the Middle East see a nuclear-arms race as rival nations try to catch up?
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Those who seek peace cannot stand idly by as nations arm themselves for nuclear war.
Why do nations decide to go nuclear, especially given the almost universal nature of the non-proliferation principle?
Nuclear materials that could be sold or stolen and fashioned into a nuclear weapon exist in dozens of nations.
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There could be a consortium of nations that deal in nuclear technology that could guarantee to enrich uranium for the Iranians.
President Barack Obama made history last month when he presided over the nuclear nonproliferation summit at the United Nations Security Council.
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Across the globe, nations are locking down nuclear materials so they never fall into the wrong hands -- because of our leadership.
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They are the only nations that both possess nuclear weapons and are large enough, in theory, to absorb a first strike and live to retaliate.
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