国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語(yǔ)Fran?ais
Home / World

Beijing calls on Tokyo to return plutonium to US

By Zhang Yunbi | China Daily | Updated: 2014-02-18 07:49

China voiced "serious concern" on Monday over Japan's possession of weapons-grade nuclear materials, urging Tokyo to return the plutonium borrowed from the United States as soon as possible.

Critics around the world have publicly questioned Japan's nuclear strategy after Japan's Kyodo News Agency confirmed that Washington has been pressing Tokyo since 2010 to return more than 300 kilograms of mostly weapons-grade plutonium.

Government sources in the US and Japan said the plutonium - given to Japan for research purposes during the Cold War era - could be used to produce 40 to 50 nuclear weapons, and since then Japan had strongly resisted returning the material.

"We believe that Japan, as a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, should strictly observe its international obligations of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear security," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday.

According to Kyodo, Washington planned to forge an accord with Tokyo in March, on the occasion of the third nuclear security summit in the Netherlands, concerning the return of the 331 kg of plutonium now stored at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

"Over quite a long period of time, Japan has not returned the weapons-grade nuclear material it has stored to the relevant country, and this has led to concerns within the international community. The Chinese side is also greatly concerned, and hopes Tokyo will explain this matter," Hua said.

Although Washington expects its ally Japan to shoulder more security duties in East Asia, "allowing Japan to become a country with nuclear weapons" is not an option for the US, said Wu Huaizhong, director of the department of Japanese politics at the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"These days, there are only two red lines Tokyo is not allowed to cross; first, no possession of nuclear weapons; second, drifting away from the alliance with the US and aligning itself with Asian neighbors," Wu said.

Japan's growing plutonium stockpiles have worried nuclear technology experts worldwide.

Japan's massive Rokkasho nuclear facility for separating plutonium in spent nuclear fuel may "serve as a tempting target for terrorists and a means of undermining nonproliferation objectives in Northeast Asia", Masako Toki, an expert of Nonproliferation Studies at Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, and Miles Pomper, former editor of the journal Arms Control Today, warned in a recent article.

Early in 2012, the Associated Press said in a report that "Japan still intends to reprocess spent fuel at Rokkasho. It sees few other options, even though it will mean extracting plutonium that could be used to make nuclear weapons."

Hua said the Japan's stock of nuclear materials raises issues regarding the risk of proliferation and the balance between supply and demand.

"We also urge Japan to take tangible measures and inform the international community of its plan to resolve the imbalance of supply and demand within the country as required by the International Atomic Energy Agency," Hua said.

zhangyunbi@chinadaily.com.cn

(China Daily 02/18/2014 page12)

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
乌鲁木齐市| 察隅县| 浮山县| 合水县| 耒阳市| 曲周县| 绵阳市| 正蓝旗| 宜都市| 门源| 公安县| 久治县| 峡江县| 奎屯市| 吴江市| 思茅市| 沧源| 庆安县| 民权县| 麻江县| 五家渠市| 泰州市| 旺苍县| 定西市| 延庆县| 锦州市| 濉溪县| 罗源县| 英山县| 惠州市| 六枝特区| 台湾省| 吕梁市| 呼伦贝尔市| 赤壁市| 常德市| 通城县| 清丰县| 九江市| 崇义县| 肇东市|