Us-China Civilian Nuclear Cooperative Agreement Sample Contracts
US-China Civilian Nuclear Cooperative (123) Agreement: What’s at Issue; What Might Congress Do?Us-China Civilian Nuclear Cooperative Agreement • July 7th, 2015
The proposed US-China nuclear cooperative agreement presents a clear challenge to Congress. Not only has China violated its pledge not to divert US nuclear technology to its military sector (in this case to its naval submarine reactor program see p. 2 of the attached brief below), but it continues to proliferate nuclear weapons related technology through “private” entities and directly to Pakistan in violation of its obligations as a Nuclear Supplier Group member (see p. 4). Recently, the Justice Department indicted several overseas Chinese for hacking into Westinghouse computer servers and stealing nuclear design information (see p. 5). Also, the proposed agreement, unlike that the US cut for Russia in 2008, gives China advanced consent to chemically strip out nuclear weapons usable plutonium from spent fuel produced by US-designed reactors (see pp. 5 ff). This could allow China to produce and stockpile tens of thousands of bombs worth of plutonium over the next three decades without