South Korea, US discuss nuke cooperation programme
March 3rd, 2011 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Mar 3 (ANI): South Korea and the United States have began a second round of talks on revising a nuclear cooperation accord, which is due to expire in March 2014.
The US adviser for non-proliferation and arms control department, Robert Einhorn, met his counterpart Cho Hyun, former deputy foreign minister for multilateral and global affairs, in this regard.
The nuclear cooperation deal, which was inked between the two countries in 1974, forbids South Korea from reprocessing spent oil from civilian nuclear plants.
South Korea has been seeking to revise terms of the agreement as its storage facilities for spent fuel from nuclear power plants in the country are expected to reach capacity in 2016, the Xihua reports.
The two countries had at the first round of talks held in October 2010 agreed to launch joint research into Seoul’s demand to adopt ‘pyroprocessing’ technology, considered by some to be less conducive to proliferation. (ANI)
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