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Defence Minister says Australia Backs Nuclear Summit Security Plan

“We converted from highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium based technologies for research reactor fuel and radioisotope production.

Australia backs US nuclear meet outcome, Sydney Morning Herald, April 14, 2010 Defence Minister John Faulkner, who has been attending a nuclear security summit hosted by US President Barack Obama, says Australia welcomes the call to secure all vulnerable nuclear material within four years…….

“We were among the first to ratify the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and its 2005 Amendment,” he said.

“We converted from highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium based technologies for research reactor fuel and radioisotope production.” Australia backs US nuclear meet outcome

April 15, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, technology, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, enriched, nuclear, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, uranium