Fuel for thought

摘要

Nuclear power for all who want it, without helping those who would abuse it? A similar dream in the 1950s later turned to nightmare, as India, Israel, Pakistan and South Africa-and others until they were stopped-bent the materials and technologies offered as "atoms for peace" to bomb-making.rnMany suspect Iran is misusing technology for enriching uranium and producing plutonium (ingredients in both reactor fuel and nuclear weapons). Anxious to head off imitators, some governments and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN'S nuclear guardian, have plans to guarantee fuel supplies: countries building civilian nuclear reactors would then have no need or excuse to dabble in such proliferation-prone technologies.