Multilateral nuclear fuel supply guarantees & spent fuel management: what are the priorities?

Pierre Goldschmidt is Nonresident Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency. Before joining the IAEA he was Director General of SYNATOM, the company responsible for the fuel supply and spent fuel management of seven nuclear power plants in Belgium. His recent publications include Concrete Steps to Improve the Nonproliferation Regime (2009) and “Exposing Nuclear Non-Compliance,” Survival (2009).