South Korea's Asian neighbors understand what the expensive laser enrichment of uranium signifies : not the existence of an active nuclear weapons program but the proven capability to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons should a South Korean government decide one day to become a nuclear power.
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The Nuclear Power Ministry's chief spokesman Nikolai Shingaryov said that a contract for the delivery of equipment that could be used for laser enrichment of uranium was signed in the mid-1990's but canceled by the Russian Cabinet several years later in response to U . S . pressure.
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The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3, 000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals.
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Russia has acknowledged signing a contract with Iran in the mid-1990s to deliver equipment that could be used for laser enrichment of uranium but officials in Moscow say the contract was canceled several years later in response to U . S . pressure in the initial stages of the program.
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Russia has acknowledged signing a contract with Iran in the mid-1990s to deliver equipment that could be used for laser enrichment of uranium, but officials in Moscow say the contract was canceled several years later in response to U . S . pressure in the initial stages of the program.
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But such claims were questioned by diplomats familiar with the investigations of the Vienna-based IAEA . The fact that uranium metal normally used in enrichment was produced nearly two decades before the laser enrichment experiments were carried out four years ago suggests long-range planning that was targeted to enrichment, said one diplomat, on condition of anonymity.
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Nikolai Shingaryov of The Nuclear Power Ministry told the AP a contract for the delivery of equipment that could be used for laser enrichment of uranium was signed in the mid-1990s but canceled by the Russian Cabinet several years later in response to U . S . pressure, " and the equipment never reached Iran in full ."
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Nikolai Shingaryov of The Nuclear Power Ministry told the AP a contract for the delivery of equipment that could be used for laser enrichment of uranium was signed in the mid-1990's but canceled by the Russian Cabinet several years later in response to U . S . pressure, " and the equipment never reached Iran in full ."
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Nikolai Shingaryov of The Nuclear Power Ministry told The AP a contract for the delivery of equipment that could be used for laser enrichment of uranium was signed in the mid-1990s but canceled by the Russian Cabinet several years later in response to U . S . pressure, " and the equipment never reached Iran in full ."
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The only way such an approach is an advantage to such an approach over current methods is if it is easier ( technologically, politically ) to make nanobots than it is to make reactors or centrifuges or laser enrichment or whatever, which isn't currently the case, but might be in a few decades .-- talk ) 21 : 50, 31 August 2011 ( UTC)
