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Wednesday July 18, 2:45 PMIAEA says yet to see concrete plan of Myanmar's nuclear ambition(Kyodo) _ The International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to see any concrete plan by military-ruled Myanmar to build a nuclear reactor although the country has signed a deal with Russia to set up a research reactor, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Wednesday."I haven't seen any plan by Myanmar to build a reactor...At this stage there is more news stories than fact," IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei told a press conference in Kuala Lumpur during a two-day visit to Malaysia. Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom signed an agreement with Myanmar in May to build the nuclear facility in one of the world's poorest nations and a country on which the West has imposed sanctions since late 1988 over its poor human rights record. The Russian agency said that the facility would be under the control of the Vienna-based IAEA. Myanmar reportedly said that the reactor would be used to train Myanmar scientists and to produce radio isotopes which can be used in medicine and agricultural science. "It is up to each country to decide if they need a research reactor...The important thing is, if a country was to develop a research reactor, it will have to be under full agency verification," ElBaradei said. |
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