A Fuel Cycle Association Would Encourage and Reward Strong NPT Compliance

摘要

We do not agree with Len Weiss ("What Would States Sacrifice for Nonprolifera-tion?," 18.1, March 2011, pp. 11-12) that our International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Association (INFCA) proposal entails any loss of national "sovereignty," in the normal legal or territorial sense of that term, beyond that embodied in international contract law and a state's continued voluntary compliance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In fact, our proposal was specifically designed to avoid this problem (see "Nuclear Islands: International Leasing of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Sites to Provide Enduring Assurance of Peaceful Use," 17.3, November 2010, pp. 441-74).