a071  0418  12 Apr 77
PM-Carter-Nuclear, 310
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Carter's efforts to curb the spread of
plutonium that can be used for nuclear weapons threatens the nuclear
nonproliferation treaty, the head of the International Atomic Energy
Agency said today.
    Sigvard Eklund, the Swedish director general of the agency, said
Carter's proposals ''violate Article 4 of the nonproliferation treaty,
which asserts there shall be no impediment to a free flow of
knowledge between . . . countries'' who sign the agreement to use
nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only.
    Eklund was supported by a majority of the 500 delegates to an
international conference on transfer of nuclear technology being held
at Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, in southern Iran. The
conference opened Sunday.
    Carter said in a nuclear policy statement last week that he was
ending U.S. government support for plutonium processing and would seek
agreements with foreign governments to restrict access to the fuel
and technology to produce it.
    Delegates from France and West Germany also criticized Carter's
proposals. The West German government has been resisting Washington's
efforts to get it to call off the sale to Brazil of a uranium
reprocessing plant that would produce plutonium, and France is selling
a reprocessing plant to Pakistan despite U.S. opposition.
    A. Arabian of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization told a news
conference that his government has arranged to buy 30,000 tons of
enriched uranium over the next 16 years from the United States, France
and several other countries so as not to be dependent on one source
of supply.
    West Germamy is building Iran's first two nuclear power plants, and
others are planned. Arabian disclosed that his government is spending
$300 million to find uranium deposits within the country and develop
them.
    
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a059  0406  14 Apr 77
PM-Nuclear, 350
PARVIS RAEIN
Associated Press Writer
    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A 41-nation conference on nuclear energy has
adopted a resolution opposing President Carter's new nuclear energy
policy because it attempts to restrict the development of nuclear
breeder reactors, conference sources reported today.
    The resolution was approved Wednesday night at the end of the
five-day conference in Persepolis of 500 scientists, government
officials and nuclear industry officials.
    The resolution was delivered to Adm. Thomas Davies, the assistant
director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, who headed
the American delegation to the conference. He assured the delegates
that he would relay the reslution to Carter and officials of his
administration.
    Carter in his April 7 policy statement said U.S. development of a
nuclear breeder reactor would be delayed because it produces plutonium
that can be refined for use in nuclear weapons. He also said he would
seek international agreements to prevent other nations from obtaining
breeder reactors and uranium reprocessing plants that produce
plutonium.
    The resolution said:
    Most countries look on nuclear power as the only route to energy
independence. And for those countries that do not have large uranium
resources, this independence can come only with breeder reactors that
convert scarce enriched uranium into plutonium, which generates power
by splitting up spontaneously.
    Carter's proposed restrictions are not effective deterrents to the
spread of nuclear weapons.
    As long as uranium enrichment remains a nuclear monopoly of the
United States, the supply of enriched uranium is less secure than the
supply of oil.
    The resolution also contended that Carter's plans to restrict
dissemination of breeder technology unilaterally abrogated the section
of the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty that promotes the
free flow of nuclear know-how.
    This, the resolution said, weakens the confidence of other nations
in U.S. promises to provide fuel supplies as alternates to plutonium.
    
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