Do the agreements comply with Australian nuclear safeguards requirements?
Yes, the two agreements fully meet all Australia’s safeguards requirements. The agreements ensure that any nuclear material transferred between Australia and China will be used solely for peaceful, non-military purposes. Likewise, any nuclear-related material, equipment or technology transferred between Australia and China, and any nuclear material produced using such material, equipment or technology, will be used solely for peaceful, non-military purposes. Australia has similar safeguards agreements in place with three of the other nuclear weapon states (US, UK and France), and a safeguards agreement with Russia covering processing of uranium on behalf of other Australian safeguards agreement partners. What conditions will apply to Australian uranium?[1] Australian uranium would be supplied to Chinese power utilities for electricity generation. A key condition for supply of AONM (Australian obligated nuclear material—Australian uranium and nuclear material derived from this) to a nuc
