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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Senator Sam Nunn Explains How a New "Fuel Bank" Can Curb Nuclear Proliferation
Description: In Kazakstan this week, the international atomic energy agency is opening a new facility that will serve as a bank for low enriched uranium.  This facility is known as the LEU fuel bank and its opening is the result of over a decade of work by my guest Senator Sam Nunn.  Now the idea behind the, bank which Senator Nunn explains in detail is basically this. countries that want to use civilian nuclear power must either build their own enrichment facilities, or must purchase enriched uranium on the open market. the concern with the former is that facilities that enrich uran...