The Nuclear Suppliers Group's new guidelines represent a compromise between states eager to prevent sensitive know-how from proliferating and states which fear discrimination by the countries that currently do nearly all the world's commercial nuclear fuel processing.
If China takes major steps to commit to fueling its rapidly growing fleet of nuclear power reactors with plutonium, the domestic, regional, and global impact will be profound.
Exempting Argentina and Brazil on new enrichment and reprocessing guidelines in the 46-member Nuclear Suppliers Group undermines the separate but important goal of establishing the IAEA Additional Protocol as the global standard on nonproliferation verification.
A potential China-Pakistan nuclear deal export would breach international protocol on the trade of nuclear equipment and material, raising concerns about the risks of nuclear proliferation.
The proposed nuclear deal between Pakistan and China reflects the growing assertiveness of China's nuclear energy program.
Hibbs is a Berlin-based senior associate in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. Before joining Carnegie, for over 20 years he was an editor and correspondent for the nuclear energy publications, including Nucleonics Week and Nuclear Fuel, published by the Platts division of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
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