Article IV of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ensures access to peaceful uses of nuclear technology for non-nuclear weapon states, the technology for uranium enrichment must be permitted to all states under the current nonproliferation regime. Countries like Iran therefore, are permitted to develop their own enrichment technology for peaceful nuclear energy production.
Any nation who would have nuclear reactor but can not control the supplier of nuclear fuel is not an independent nation. The case of Iran and Russia as supplier of the fuel demonstrates my argument. The Iranian problem for receiving from Russia fuel for Bushehr, Iran Nuclear Reactor was co-opted by the USA forcing Iran to initiate her own fuel production.
Iran has argued for an international nuclear fuel consortium to operate Iranian nuclear enrichment. Iranians assert that this arrangement and IAEA oversight together will eliminate USA fear that Iran is attempting to use the technology to develop bomb. |
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