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Article: CHAIRMAN LANTOS TO INTRODUCE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR FUEL FOR PEACE AND NONPROLIFERATION ACT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 7, 2007
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee issued the following news release:
Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today will introduce legislation to support the creation of an international nuclear fuel bank so that any country seeking to develop peaceful nuclear power-producing capability will not have to enrich uranium.
"This bank will ensure that any state that keeps its nuclear nonproliferation commitments can get the fuel it needs without establishing its own fuel production facilities," Lantos said at a hearing with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, noting that such a ready source of fuel would undercut Iran's insistence on enriching uranium, ...