UN Nuclear Agency Urges Monitoring In Japan, US -Report

The International Atomic Energy Agency is pushing for closer international monitoring of as many as 10 nuclear facilities in the United States, Japan, Russia, Finland and other countries, a media report said Saturday.

The U.N. watchdog agency has been seeking to bring facilities conducting uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing under international management to ensure that nuclear weapons are not developed under the guise of energy programs, Japan’s Kyodo News agency said.

The IAEA plans to submit a draft to a board of directors meeting in September proposing that up to 10 nuclear facilities be placed under international management by 2010, Kyodo said, citing sources at the Vienna, Austria-based agency.
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