Brazil Shielding Uranium Facility (from UN -- but Iran is allowing UN)

[papau]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=1802&e=1&u=/washpost/20040405/ts_washpost/a48456_2004apr3

Brazil Shielding Uranium Facility
By Peter Slevin, Washington Post Staff Writer

The Brazilian government has refused to allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to examine a facility for enriching uranium under construction near Rio de Janeiro, according to Brazilian officials and diplomats in Vienna, home of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The IAEA and Brazil are at an impasse over the inspections, the diplomats said. Brazil maintains that the facility will produce low-enriched uranium for use in power plants, not the highly enriched material used in nuclear weapons. Nonetheless, Brazil refuses to let IAEA inspectors see equipment in the plant, citing a need to protect proprietary information.<snip>

Nonproliferation specialists say that if the United States and the United Nations do not act to curtail Brazil's program, or at least insist on inspections, the lack of action could undermine White House calls for Iran and North Korea to halt their efforts to enrich uranium. <snip>

"It makes mincemeat of the president's speech," said Henry Sokolski, director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, a Washington think tank. He noted that Bush said countries must agree to rigorous IAEA inspection to get international help. "It sets a hell of a precedent if they go through with an enrichment facility."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=18&u=/nm/20040404/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_dc

Iran Says It Has Hidden No Nuclear Sites from U.N.
Sun Apr 4, 8:08 AM ET By Parisa Hafezi

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, under renewed pressure to prove it is not seeking an atomic bomb, said Sunday it had no clandestine nuclear sites hidden from U.N. inspectors.

A group of Western diplomats who follow the U.N. nuclear watchdog said recent intelligence provoked suspicion Tehran had not stopped enriching uranium but moved enrichment activities to smaller sites out of the United Nations' view.

"There is no nuclear center in Iran which we have hidden from inspectors," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a news conference.

Iran promised Britain, France and Germany last October it would suspend uranium enrichment and accept snap atomic checks. <snip>

[Zynx]

1. Under the Bush doctrine, Brazil is then a potential future threat.

Maybe we will do what we did forty years ago and coup them or perhaps invade.

[papau]

2. Smile - sigh - will the media notice the Bush credibility problem?

:-)