Our current institutions provide a robust foundation for our participation in, and efforts to strengthen, the nuclear nonproliferation regime.

Among the most important of these tasks will be following through on measures to discourage the spread of enrichment and reprocessing technology. I will begin by examining the current status of the international nuclear nonproliferation framework, and then look at what tasks need to be completed to strengthen it further. Today I will focus on the last of these challenges and the international framework we rely on to meet the proliferation challenge. If it is to endure over the long term, the expansion of nuclear power must meet the highest standards for safety and security, while at the same time discouraging the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The nuclear renaissance will present challenges as well as benefits. We know it because the United States and other nations want to increase their energy security by reducing their dependence on imported fossil fuels. We know it because worldwide concern over climate change requires the expansion of energy sources that do not emit greenhouse gasses. We know that nuclear energy will spread because millions of people in the developing world demand a better way of life, and electric generating capacity must expand to meet this demand. We know that an international nuclear renaissance is coming. Establishing the International Framework to Deter Development of Weapons Technology Amidst the Global Nuclear Renaissance Mary Alice Hayward,ĭeputy Assistant Secretary, Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy and Negotiations

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