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IAEA Explores Taiwan’s Past Nuclear Activity
Recent inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency indicate that Taiwan performed plutonium experiments until the mid-1980s, diplomats said today (see GSN, Oct. 6). Inspections were conducted through the Taiwan’s IAEA safeguards agreement, diplomats told the Associated Press. Additional measures that Taiwan volunteered to accept grant the agency the authority to conduct more intrusive monitoring of a country’s nuclear efforts. IAEA officials refused to comment. A spokesman for the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry said he was unaware of the reports and also refused to comment. One diplomat said that there were differences in the revelation of Taiwan’s plutonium experiments and the earlier revelation of nuclear experiments that South Korea conducted involving small amounts of enriched uranium and plutonium. While the South Korea experiments were previously unknown, Taiwan’s nuclear weapons program, which was launched in the 1960s, stopped in the 1970s and briefly revived in the 1980s, was more commonly known, the diplomat said (George Jahn, Associated Press/Yahoo!News, Oct. 13).
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