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...government approves, several thousand inhabitants of Eunice, New Mexico are about to get a new corporate citizen: URENCO, the state-owned European consortium whose centrifuge designs have leaked to most of the world's rogue nuclear states. The consortium is revving up to build a new uranium enrichment facility just outside of Eunice not far from the Texas border. But the deal is anything but sealed. The massive project is raising eyebrows among Bush administration officials concerned that a company linked to the spread of nuclear weapons technologies would be operating on U.S. soil...
...including Republican Pete Domenici, who is chairman of the Senate Energy Committee. URENCO , an Anglo-Dutch-German consortium, hopes to build in New Mexico as part of Louisiana Energy Services, or LES, an alliance that includes the big American firms Exelon, Duke and Entergy, as well as Cameco, a uranium mining company and Westinghouse, a nuclear fuel manufacturer. If it is built, the plant would produce fuel for nuclear power generation in the U.S. and abroad...
...involved Pakistan. Since then, components associated with URENCO technology, consultants or sub-contractors have been said to have turned up in Iran, Iraq, Libya and North Korea. Last week, for example, the United Nations nuclear agency said it found undeclared components compatible with advanced uranium-enrichment centrifuge designs in Iran. The components were compatible with a so-called "P2" uranium-enrichment centrifuge, a Pakistani version of the URENCO "G2" centrifuge. The P2 can be used to produce material for nuclear weapons...
...officials insist that the components?tubes made up of thousands of small pieces, according to a Scomi official?could only be used in a uranium-enrichment program. A Scomi spokeswoman insists that the company was told the parts were for the oil and gas industry...
...talks by the end of March. Referenda will then be held based on the deal that emerges. If the outcomes are successful, Cyprus could be united when it enters the E.U. in May. Power Struggle IRAN Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency uncovered blueprints for an undeclared uranium enrichment centrifuge capable of producing weapons-grade material. U.S. Under Secretary of State John Bolton accused Iran of unlawfully continuing its efforts to develop nuclear weapons, a charge that Iran denies. Cleaning Up INDONESIA Drawing fire from anticorruption campaigners, the Supreme Court quashed a corruption conviction against parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung...