Australia: China Must Sign Safeguards To Get Uranium

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File photo of an Australian uranium mining complex.

Sydney (AFP) Jan 13, 2006
Australia will tell China next week that it must agree to stringent safeguards if it wants uranium shipments to fuel its plans for massive nuclear power expansion, officials said Friday.

A spokeswoman for Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane said China would have to agree to non-proliferation safeguards, including International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) oversight, before Australian uranium exports could be approved.

"It's non-negotiable basically," she told AFP. "There are a series of guidelines under which we will export to a second party."

Australia says it will sell uranium to China provided it is only used for peaceful purposes and is not put to military use.

Prime Minister John Howard this week said discussions with China on the conditions for approving uranium exports would open Monday and Canberra would have a clear message for officials from Beijing.

"There's no way we'll export any uranium to any country without a proper safeguards agreement," Howard told reporters Thursday.

The China Daily state newspaper reported last month that Beijing wanted to increase its nuclear generating capacity from the current 8,700 megawatts to 40,000 megawatts by the year 2020 as it moves away from the coal power which is causing serious air pollution, acid rain and global warming.

Source: Agence France-Presse

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