... international high-level expert round table, dedicated to the trends in the development of world politics in the context of acute recent crises.
The session addressed the situation around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, the latest report of the IAEA, as well as the recent discussion on this issue in the UN Security Council. The participants agreed that reaching an agreement on the safety of the Zaporizhzhia NPS could be a starting point for resuming negotiations on more general issues of the ...
... radioactive materials such as enriched uranium or plutonium.
What can we do to prevent the risk of nuclear terrorism? Which measures are the most effective?
Some measures have already been adopted in the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) or as a result of the Nuclear Security Summits launched by President Obama between 2010 and 2016. In countries possessing nuclear weapons, there should be strengthened standards to reduce the nuclear risk, including by preventing any unauthorized ...
... already made significant concessions by voluntarily curtailing its sovereign right to develop a nuclear sector. Under the provisions of the nuclear deal, Iran undertook both to limit the pace of producing enriched uranium and plutonium and to grant IAEA officers broad access to its nuclear facilities. On the whole, Iran perceived these steps as a concession in the name of peace and the country’s economic prosperity. Donald Trump, on the contrary, views the Iran deal as a giant misstep by the Obama ...
... across the world, including in the Middle East. In particular, Russia took part in building the region’s first NPP, to the IAEA’s requirements, in the Iranian city of Bushehr [
26
]. More nuclear power units are expected to be built in the country.... ... creating regional security systems with Russia as a participant.” [
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] Both Turkey and Russia cooperate within a number of international security organizations, including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as member countries,...
... has become a world leader in denuclearization. It is a champion of nuclear nonproliferation on the multilateral circuit, active in the implementation of several denuclearization treaties, and is currently International Atomic Energy Association’s (IAEA)
favored partner
. The IAEA even
chose Kazakhstan
as the site of the world’s first Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank, a brilliant initiative that ensures all IAEA member states have access to LEU for peaceful purposes, without risking further proliferation ...
