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SOUTH KOREA AND SPENT FUEL REPROCESSING

2009; Routledge; Volume: 154; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03071840903412051

1744-0378

Chris Hobbs, Matthew Harries,

Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies

Abstract As the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference draws closer, how the nuclear community handles South Korea's desire for reprocessing could become the definitive case study. America's civil nuclear arrangement with the UAE has been mooted as the way forward, but many NPT signatories feel that a double standard is at work. Notes 1. Yoon Sojung, 'Seoul Maps Out Plan for Post-fossil fuel Era', Energy plus Korea, 28 August 2008. 2. Mark Hibbs, 'ROK to Chart Fuel Cycle Policy Course beyond Spent Fuel "Wait-and-see"', Nuclear Fuel (Vol. 23, April 2007). 3. KONICOF, Korea becomes Self-sufficient in Nuclear Power Technology', , accessed 22 May 2009. 4. See for example AFP, 'SKorea proposes independent plutonium reprocessing', Nuclear Power Daily, 2 July 2009. 5. Interview with Yu Myung-hwan, from transcript of Arirang TV broadcast, Seoul, 8 July 2009, . 6. Lee Jong-Heon, 'South Koreans Call for Nuclear Sovereignty', UPI Asia, 15 June 2009. 7. James Acton, 'Nuclear Power, Disarmament and Technological Restraint', Survival (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2009), p. 107. 8. Fast reactor-based fuel cycles have the benefit of utilising uranium resources much more efficiently than conventional pressurised or boiling water reactors. 9. World Nuclear Association, 'Fast Neutron Reactors', , accessed 13 October 2009. 10. Mark B M Suh, 'The "Korea Question" and Problems of Nuclear-proliferation in East Asia', paper presented to LNCV – Korea Peninsula: Enhancing Stability and International Dialogue, Rome, 1–2 June 2000, , accessed 13 October 2009. 11. Jungmin Kang and H A Feiveson, 'South Korea's Shifting and Controversial Interest in Spent Fuel Reprocessing', The Nonproliferation Review (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2001), pp. 70–78. 12. International Atomic Energy Agency, 'Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Republic of Korea', Board of Governors Report, November 2004. 13. Kang and Feiveson, op. cit. 14. Y S Hwang, M S Jeong and S W Park, 'Current Status on the Nuclear Back-end Fuel Cycle R&D in Korea', Progress in Nuclear Energy (Vol. 49, No. 6, August 2007). 15. J M Hur, M S Jeong, W K Lee, S H Cho, C S Seo and S W Park, 'Smelting Associated with the Advanced Spent Fuel Conditioning Process', paper presented to the Americas Nuclear Energy Symposium, Miami Beach, 5 October 2004. 16. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Process Development Division, Korea Atomic Energy Agency (KAERI), , accessed 13 October 2009. 17. Global Security, 'Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula', , accessed 13 October 2009. 18. National Energy Development Group, US 2001 National Energy Policy Report, May 2001. 19. Edwin Lyman and Frank N von Hippel, 'Reprocessing Revisited: The International Dimensions of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership', Arms Control Today, , accessed April 2008. 20. Jae-Hyung Yoo, Chung-Seok Seo, Eung-Ho Kim and Han-Soo Lee, 'A Conceptual Study of Pyroprocessing for Recovering Actinides from Spent Oxide Fuels', Nuclear Engineering and Technology (Vol. 40, No. 7, December 2008). 21. George S Stanford, Gerald E Marsh and William Hannum, 'Reprocessing is the Answer', Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 31 August 2009. 22. Jungmin Kang and Frank von Hippel, 'Limited Proliferation-resistance Benefits from Recycling Unseparated Transuranics and Lanthanides from Light-water Reactor Spent Fuel', Science and Global Security (Vol. 13, 2005), pp. 169–181. 23. Lee, op. cit 24. Korea Times, 'Nuclear Sovereignty', 29 May 2009. 25. Lee, op. cit 26. Federation of Atomic Scientists, 'Nuclear Forces Guide: Japan', . 27. Christopher W Hughes, 'North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Implications for the Nuclear Ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan', Asia Policy (Vol. 3, January 2007), pp. 75–104. 28. 'S. Korean Pyroprocessing Awaits U.S. Decision', Arms Control Today (Vol. 39, No. 6, July-August 2009). 29. President Obama, remarks delivered at a speech in Prague, 5 April 2009. 30. World Nuclear Association, 'The nuclear renaissance', , accessed September 2007. Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristopher Hobbs Christopher Hobbs is Deputy Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA), based in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, which specialises in open-source research on WMD proliferation Matthew Harries Matthew Harries is a Research Assistant at ICSA and an MPhil/PhD candidate in War Studies, focusing on nuclear disarmament and the NPT