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  • The Carnegie Endowment supported survey also details China's assistance to Pakistan in the construction of plutonium production reactor at Khusab and an unsafeguarded plutonium reprocessing facility at Chasma, giving Pakistan, for the first time, a dependable source of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.

    Jamyang Norbu: Who Created Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal? Jamyang Norbu 2011

  • These were intended to ensure that transfers of nuclear materials or equipment would not be diverted to unsafeguarded nuclear fuel cycle or nuclear explosive activities, and formal government assurances to this effect were required from recipients.

    Nuclear safeguards (non-proliferation) 2009

  • While nuclear power reactors themselves are not a proliferation concern, enrichment and reprocessing technologies are open to use for other purposes, and have been the cause of proliferation through illicit or unsafeguarded use.

    Nuclear safeguards (non-proliferation) 2009

  • Apart from situations addressed by the Additional Protocol, the greatest risk from nuclear weapons proliferation comes from countries which have not joined the NPT and which have significant unsafeguarded nuclear activities; India, Pakistan, and Israel fall within this category.

    Nuclear safeguards (non-proliferation) 2009

  • The President never should have agreed to a deal that lets India produce many more bombs worth of unsafeguarded nuclear material annually.

    Rep. Ed Markey: Giving Away the Farm: Bush Caves to India on Nuke Deal 2008

  • And China has agreed to stop assistance to Iran for its nuclear program, terminate its assistance to unsafeguarded nuclear facilities such as those in Pakistan, tighten its export-control system and sell no more anti-ship cruise missiles to Iran.

    Why I'm Going To Beijing 2008

  • The worst possible outcome is a purely national program on Iranian soil, one aimed at producing nuclear weapons, whether unsafeguarded (following, say, an Iranian withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) or insufficiently safeguarded (as has been the case during this most recent period under minimum safeguards arrangements).

    A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff Luers, William 2008

  • Housebuilders should build at higher densities on brownfield land, rather than creating clone town sprawls on unsafeguarded agricultural land.

    Sir Ming's Madcap Scheme 2007

  • Likewise, South Africa remains concerned about the continued operation of unsafeguarded nuclear facilities for which no assurances can be given in terms of the non-diversion to non-peaceful purposes, including by those states that have chosen to remain outside the NPT.

    ANC Today 2006

  • Likewise, South Africa remains concerned about the continued operation of unsafeguarded nuclear facilities for which no assurances can be given in terms of the non-diversion to non-peaceful purposes, including by those states that have chosen to remain outside the NPT.

    A balance of rights and obligations 2006

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