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China is lax in overseeing spread of nuclear materials

Lax oversight is enabling front companies to buy sensitive materials that can advance Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capability,

China Not Doing Enough to Control Spread of Nuclear Material, Lugar Says, Bloomberg, By Julie Hirschfeld Davis – Jan 15, 2011 U.S. Senator Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, the Foreign Relations Committee’s top Republican, said he’s concerned China isn’t doing enough to control the spread of nuclear material.

Reports that China has failed to prevent its companies from selling sensitive materials to Iran for its nuclear programs are “worrisome,” Lugar said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend…..

A leading expert on Iran’s nuclear program said yesterday China remains “a major gap” in enforcing global sanctions on Iran. Lax oversight is enabling front companies to buy sensitive materials that can advance Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capability, said David Albright, a nuclear physicist who inspected Iran’s nuclear facilities for the United Nations’ atomic energy agency in the 1990s……

China Not Doing Enough to Control Spread of Nuclear Material, Lugar Says – Bloomberg

January 16, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | China, safety