JPRS ID: 10213 WORLDWIDE REPORT NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT AND PROLIFERATION

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JF'RS L/ 10213
23 December 1981
- Worldwride Re ort
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J NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT AND PROLIFER.ATION
(1=0U0 14/81)
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JPRS L/10213
23 December 1981
- WORLDWIDE REPORT
NUCLEAR DEYELOPMENT AND PROLIFERATION
(FOUO 14/81)
CONTENTS
WORLDWIDE AFFAIRS
EEC, PRC Discuss Nuclear Fuel Cooperation
(FiZain Cass; FINANCIAL TIMES, 4 Dec 81) 1
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JAPAN
Atomic-Power Plant Building Slows From Objections, Consumption
Trend
(JAPAN ECONOMIC JOUf2NAL, 10 Nov 81) 3
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
- SOUTH AFRICA
Government Tries To Obtain Enriched Uranium Illegally
(Reggie Major; NE'W AFRICAN, Oct 81) 4
WEST EUnOPE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
- Waste Disposal Seen as Obstacle to New Construction
(Sebastian Knauer; STERN, 12 Nov 81) 8
UNITED KINGDOM
: Briefs
USSR Urani~:^ ~nrichment 12
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EEC, PRC D~SCUSS NUCLEAR FUEL COOPERATTON
PM041207 Lo~zdon FINANCIAL TIMES in Engliah 4 llec $1 p 42
~ [Report by Alain Cass: "Peking Seeks Nuclear Links"]
[Excerpt] China and EEC a::~e considering wide-ranging cooperation in the exploration,
e:~traction and processing of nuclear fue~. for peaceful purposes.
Detailed proposais have been submitted to the Chinese by the EEC Commission in Brus -
sels. These may lead to an exchange of uranium experts and po~sibly to sales of
Chinese uranium to the com~nity.
Although the joint plan is still only a couunission proposal and has ~+et to receive ~
_ the backing of inember governments, its significance lies in the fact+that it was
the Chinese who made the first approach.
Last April a team of EEC aff icials and geologists from several lEuropean countries
visited China for talks. They were allowed ta inspect uranium mines and processing
- fa~ilities--the first Westerners ever to do so. T~e team was led by Dr Michael
Davies, then the commission's director of uranium.
The team ~as received at the highest le:~el ~nd it was indicated according t~ one
member, that the Chinese were keen to establish technical links with the EEC. Such.
links were broken off with the RussiLans in 196Q.
That visit was followed three weeks ago by a delegation led by 3ir Roy Denman,
_ the co~nission's external affairs chief, hThich put a series rf detailed proposals
to the Chinese.
The Chinese are keen to get European help to convert their existing ~efining facil-
ities to meet international commercial standards and the EEC delegation was told
China would w3.sh to seell uranium to the community.
China's uranium operations are a closely guarded secret and come under direct army
control. Official figures for reserves are not available. Some Western estimates
~ut them a.s high as 800,OU0 tons, which would make China potentially one of the
world's majcr producers.
The commission will shortly propose to member governments the exchange of experts
from Britain, Fr~nce, Italy and Denmark. The British Government is understood to be
sympathetic to the idaa.
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= The Chinese are s~lit aver the desirability of inviting foreign help into this
sensitive sector. China also has a strong anti-nuclear lobby, which favours develop-
ing coal reserves instead of pushign ah~ad with nu~clear power.
EEC misgivingg may arise following recent reports of the sale of unsafegua.rded
_ Chinese uranium to South Africa. Peking has hotly denied the reports.
COPYRIGHT: The Financial Times Ltd, 1981
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