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...pretty exclusively reserved for finding out about plutonium," says a Geneva-based diplomat. It's also a procedure that's hard to cover up?although South Korea appears to have tried. The Ministry of Science and Technology says it reported the experiment to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1983, but its report had a significant error. South Korea told the IAEA its scientists had dissolved fuel from a fresh rod, not a spent one. Plutonium cannot be extracted from a fresh uranium fuel rod. The IAEA had no reason to be alarmed until 1997, when an inspection...
...Pyongyang also has a plutonium-based weapons program, the focus of continuing six-nation negotiations.) South Korea foreswore its nuclear weapons program in 1975, and has since been under the inspection regime of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. Last February, the government signed a protocol giving the IAEA the right to more information and to inspect sites anywhere in the country. Seoul had six months to make a full declaration of its nuclear research, and the IAEA started asking uncomfortable questions about the institute in Daejon...
...with a Chechen-trained group arrested outside Paris in December 2002 that is suspected of planning a chemical-bomb attack. "Arif's activities and associates span from Azerbaijan to England ," the French official says. "Getting hold of him is very big." Nuclear Rebuke IRAN The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, unanimously adopted a resolution deploring Tehran's failure to fully cooperate with the IAEA's investigation into the country's nuclear activities. Tehran's chief delegate to the IAEA, Hossein Mousavian, criticized the resolution but said that Iran would continue to work with...
...decision to come clean on his secret nuclear-weapons program could prove to be a major achievement in the world's bid to rein in rogue nuclear nations. But it has also shown how far there still is to go. Since 1980, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have visited Libya, a signatory of the 1970 Nonproliferation Treaty, and routinely reported that they found no evidence of a nuclear-weapons program, although they did stress that they could not guarantee their information was complete. Last week IAEA inspectors visited nine nuclear sites in Libya, four of which...
...IAEA believes that Libya was years away from succeeding. But the agency's critics cite the revelations as more proof that the U.N. body "does a terrible job of inspecting nations that are determined to cheat," contends Paul Leventhal, founding president of the Nuclear Control Institute. IAEA officials counter that without good intelligence from the U.S. and other nations or the right to conduct spot inspections, they cannot verify a country's claims of compliance. Libya, they say, is proof that arms-control systems need to be strengthened. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, says the episode should trigger soul...