Chinese nuclear pact signed.The House of Representatives has endorsed a resolution--already passed by the Senate--to permit U.S. exports of nuclear-power technology to China. This "agreement for nuclear cooperation," based on a pact worked out between President Reagan and Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. officials in Beijing Beijing (bā-jĭng) or Peking (pē-kĭng, pā–), city (1994 est. urban pop. 6,093,300; 1994 est. total pop. 7,240,700), capital of the People's Republic of China. It is in central Hebei prov. last year, allows U.S. reactor Reactor (electricity) A device for introducing an inductive reactance into a circuit. Inductive reactance x is a function of the product of frequency f and inductance L; thus, x = 2πfL. vendors to bid on an estimated $6 billion in business. While China's failure to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), formally called the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, is the cornerstone of the international effort to halt the proliferation, or spread, of Nuclear Weapons (State Department, worries many U.S. lawmakers, compromise language contained in this resolution restricts ultimate congressional approval of any actual exports to certifications by President Reagan that he has established that China will not use the technology for acquiring nuclear weaponry. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) is hoping to achieve even tougher controls on those exports. The existing resolution makes no provision for actually proving -- via traditional nuclear safeguards activities and monitoring -- that the Chinese abide by their pledge A Bailment or delivery of Personal Property to a creditor as security for a debt or for the performance of an act. Sometimes called bailment, pledges are a form of security to assure that a person will repay a debt or perform an act under contract. to use the technology for solely peaceful purposes. Legislation Glenn has introduced would require such safeguards. |
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