EU AND AUSTRALIA STRIKE NEW BROADER NUCLEAR COOPERATION DEAL

BY KEITH NUTHALL AUSTRALIA and the European Union (EU) have struck a new wide-ranging nuclear energy cooperation agreement, replacing a more narrow 1981 deal focused on transfers of nuclear material. That was due to expire in 2012, and EU ministers have now approved its replacement - an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. This would be conducted, says its text, "on the basis of mutual benefit and reciprocity". As well as swapping nuclear material, the deal involves the mutual transfer of and access to technology and ...


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