[cdn-nucl-l] Multilateral Fuel Cycle Report

[Randal Leavitt <randal.leavitt@rogers.com>]

http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/2005/infcirc640.pdf

Approaches 1 and 4 make sense to me.  2 and 5 seem to be self-serving. 
  3 seems to be unrealistic.

Five suggested approaches

The objective of increasing non-proliferation assurances concerning 
the civilian nu-clear fuel cycles, while preserving assurances of 
supply and services around the world could be achieved through a set 
of gradually introduced multilateral nuclear approaches (MNA):

1. Reinforcing existing commercial market mechanisms on a case-by-case 
basis through long-term contracts and transparent suppliers 
arrangements with government backing. Examples would be: fuel leasing 
and fuel take-back, commercial offers to store and dispose of spent 
fuel and commercial fuel banks.

2. Developing and implementing international supply guarantees with 
IAEA participation. Different models should be investigated, notably 
with the IAEA as guarantor of service supplies, e.g. as administrator 
of a fuel bank.

3. Promoting voluntary conversion of existing facilities to MNAs, and 
pursuing them as confidence-building measures, with the participation 
of NPT non-nuclear weapon States and nuclear weapon States, and 
non-NPT States.

4. Creating, through voluntary agreements and contracts, 
multinational, and in particular regional, MNAs for new facilities 
based on joint ownership, drawing rights or co-management for 
front-end and back-end nuclear facilities, such as uranium enrichment; 
fuel reprocessing; disposal and storage of spent fuel (and 
combinations thereof). Integrated nuclear power parks would also serve 
this objective.

5. The scenario of a further expansion of nuclear energy around the 
world might call for the development of a nuclear fuel cycle with 
stronger multilateral arrangements by region or by continent - and 
broader cooperation, involving the IAEA and the international community.

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