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...sampling techniques employed by the agency can pick up traces of nuclear material even after a site has been meticulously scrubbed down, he said. As if to prove that point, diplomats also revealed that the IAEA has uncovered evidence that Egyptian scientists may have dabbled in experiments to prepare uranium for enrichment in the 1980s and '90s. Those efforts "do not represent a serious proliferation concern," one diplomat told TIME. They rank "a notch or two below" the recent revelations about South Korea's nuclear program, he added, "more like a case of sloppiness...
...JONG HON, 43, South Korean businessman; following the seizure of freight containers holding 13 highly radioactive devices; on Sakhalin Island, Russia. Kim, president of South Korea's All Nations Co., was detained by Russian police for allegedly attempting to import undeclared items. The devices, according to Russian authorities, contained uranium 238, a metal used in the process of armor plating and the production of ammunition, although some experts say it could possibly be used to make dirty bombs. South Korean officials say the devices were to be used at a construction site...
Efforts are under way to make Iran give up the development of uranium-enrichment technology because that nation may achieve the capability of making a bomb. Yet the U.S. will go on maintaining its pile of atomic weapons. Let the U.S. set the example by ridding itself of its nuclear weapons. Then it can expect the rest of the world to follow...
...Iran hammered out with diplomats from Britain, France and Germany could well be a critical step toward ending the Islamic regime's nuclear brinkmanship. Talks aimed at reaching a permanent understanding are scheduled to start in mid-December. The mullahs have agreed to freeze a variety of activities involving uranium enrichment and plutonium separation, which the West interprets as including the manufacture, import and testing of centrifuges. In return, Iran accepted various sweeteners, such as potential cooperation in economic, security and even nuclear matters that could one day reduce the country's isolation from the West...
...Europe's formal acknowledgment in the Nov. 14 agreement that Iran has the right to peaceful nuclear technology. This affirms that under IAEA supervision, Tehran is technically entitled to operate facilities, including its two Russian-built light-water reactors in Bushehr, a pilot enrichment facility in Natanz, a future uranium-conversion site in Isfahan and a heavy-water production plant in Arak...