Former IAEA safeguards director defends MOX as proliferation boon

摘要

Former IAEA deputy director general Bruno Pellaud saidnlast week that greater use of mixed plutonium-uraniumnoxide, or MOX, fuel would further nonproliferation, callingnfor the world community to revise its decades-old assessmentnof the weapons-suitability of plutonium from spentnpower reactor fuel.