U.S. Pushes for Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

The United States yesterday promoted its Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a plan that seeks to expand nuclear energy while seeking to stop the spread of atomic weapons, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Feb. 9).

“We have the choice of a game of catch-up or to initiate a more secure approach to the world,” said U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, who was in Moscow for a Group of Eight energy meeting.

“We envision the GNEP as an international collaboration that seeks to increase the availability of clean emissions-free power for the world, reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation and decrease the volume and radio toxicity of nuclear waste,” he added.

Bodman said talks on the program with China, France, Japan, Russia and the United Kingdom have been positive.

Russia has also called for an international consortium of nuclear centers to provide access to civilian nuclear technology while blocking nuclear proliferation, according to AFP (Agence France-Presse/Khaleej Times, March 15).

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