If the agreement is reached, it will be the first time for Japan to have a nuclear energy agreement with a country that has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of nuclear Weapons.

如果协议达成，这将是日本首次与未加入《不扩散核武器条约》的国家缔结核能协定。

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