Early last week, President Trump sent his Saudi nuclear cooperative agreement to Capitol Hill. The agreement will come into force by year’s end unless Congress opposes or amends it. Here’s the rub, though: it’s unclear if Congress has received all that the Administration agreed to...
This weekend, the United States and Iran will resume technical nuclear talks in Pakistan. At the top of the agenda will be how to eliminate the possibility of Iran making ten or more nuclear weapons from its stockpile of 60 percent enriched uranium. Missing from...
In an effort to get Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel, the Biden Administration is considering offering Riyadh a U.S. civilian nuclear cooperative agreement that would allow the Kingdom to enrich uranium, a process that could bring it within weeks or days of acquiring a nuclear...
This letter was featured in “US urged not to use bomb-grade uranium in nuclear power experiment,” By Timothy Gardner of Reuters on May 30, 2023. Proposed MCRE Reactor Violates U.S. Nonproliferation Policy of HEU Minimization May 30, 2023 The Honorable Jennifer M. GranholmSecretary of EnergyU.S. Department of...
Our government seems on a tear to hug Mother Earth and to decarbonize the planet with advanced U.S. nuclear reactors. None of these plants yet exist; all still are being designed. Some of them, like Bill Gates’ Natrium fast reactor, are prodigious producers of weapons-grade plutonium....
Earlier last month, Secretary of Energy Granholm touted the Department’s commercialization of advanced fast reactors at the COPO26 Glasgow Climate Conference as a demonstration of America’s commitment to decarbonizing the planet. The State Department announced it’s organizing itself to support the export of such reactors....
SECOND OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU July 28, 2021 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca Re: US experts concerned that Canadian support for extracting plutonium from spent nuclear fuel is undermining the global nuclear-weapons nonproliferation regime Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, In our open letter to you,...
Last week, the Development Finance Corporation (DFC), a new federal financing organization that Congress created to help the developing world, announced it was lifting a prohibition on supporting US civilian nuclear exports. This announcement triggered a 30-day public comment period. There’s only one problem: There’s next to nothing to comment on....
2021-03-01 National Security Perspective on Mining Ban Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva1324 Longworth House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515 Congressman Tom O’Halleran318 Cannon House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515 Senator Kyrsten Sinema317 Hart Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Senator Mark KellyDirksen Senate Office BuildingSuite B40BWashington, DC 20510 Dear...
In August 2018, members of the U.S. Congress and the Japanese Diet wrote letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. These letters urged him to cooperate with Tokyo to reduce Japan’s surplus plutonium and encourage South Korea and China to defer recycling plutonium. Aug 31,...
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