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Show AA2 Thursday, October 14, 2004 DAILY HERALD Diplomats: Taiwan did pliitonium separation experiments up to mid-'8lals at the Vienna-baseIAEA .aid they CvoultJ not comment. One of the diplomats cau-- t loned against drawing parallels U.N. nuclear watchdog agency reveals important detail about the country's old nuclear weapons program j Georcje from Taiwan s nc.il China. Taiwan's fjuvt-- Mincnt ha:, ;i ,t having lever m knii'.'. sou e! 'a i aj n o i.y;i,iiu, according to anak Mv ihn if icm tin. ni! ij.il .nv tii f'Xjjri'! ' a i'J phiMiimm extt'iidi'd " ,M' P::i! i''-- ' - a vii ' i t.;i '.; .'! r ik i i '!, h a i ". ah itii.lt 'I u iK " " fii- - nurlt'jr i: a- ' in tin l'JS. .iiui ii:c revelations' ( iH.iiini siiipK ii us th.it plutoni-ui- n si')ar;itti)n t .enment.s wcrt.--( ,in ifd nut at that time. Taiwan lirst launched its n'u-- i kir wc,i)(iiis pi.. iL:i:ani in the ! in the folliM.li. !;: low inj.' iji'i a!' i'. (uessure -. which .truiii !(w ' '!: ; . ' l .j(ii,iriTV !; e not-awar-e ai kiiiiv ledgi d.tli.il its scien-- i ists oik e tlal. bled in extracting pi. J.mi; n at.it! em it tun urani- ' oil. of v. ini h can ke ,;n a The exK'i iiiH'iils ered in i.aspetii(it.'aiMl u sunn cCinducled h t lit iicfi.iatidn.tl Atomic Fnergy At'iicy after the T.iiwane'-.'- ' j.',"vi'i nrm nt agreed in vol, int. it . extra controls mi the i oiintrv's peaceful illicit ar p'rngi .cr, lie diplomats said The diplomats 'mid The Associated Press ttial their iniotmu tibn was bused on preliminary samples taken in Taiwan by. IAEA inspectors indicating. that plutonium separation experiments probably continued until about 20 years ago. The diplomats, who are familiar with the I A spoke on cond.tion of ,uinn natv. eI :i.'ii;. ikC nuclear arms. While the South Korean reve- . at ions reflected continued se- - , it't a e,t research, ,t was coinmon knowledge that Taiwan had engagt d ai nuclear u e;ii.ii:s rtiSMarch iit'-- China Until) ,il the exploded its -- I :i ':, .I ir n i ring .!. .:.'!. h..' .in .' ; iia.s i. i between Taiwan and South Korea, whose government, tecent-I- v tll-S- she dipji.ni.it said.. What now was do w'a.s to flesh out !r ii,,; ..I the Taiwanese program, I i K. de-;;u- '- environmental sampling ' .aid other methods, he said. I tie agency was not expecting to find new experiments witti possible weapons applicasaid tions beyond the the diplomat. "But there will be new things they did not discover in the past" about the previ-ouslknown program because 'w ii h' mid-l9K0- y of the extra access Taiwan was now granting agency inspectors, he said. In Taipei, Taiwan, Foreign Ministry spokesman Michel Lu said the ministry was of the reports and would not immediately comment on them. Officials at Taiwan's Atomic, Energy Council were not available after business hours Wednesday. Andrew Yang, a defense analyst at the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, a Taipei think tank, said that it lias long been common knowledge in Taiwan that the island's nuclear scientists were working on a bomb in the 1970s and ' 1980s. Yang said the work was done at the Chung Shan Institute, the military's biggest research center. He said the government has yet to publicly confirm the project existed. "I don't think they got any; where close to building a nuclear device," Yang said. "But they did have the technology and the know-how.- " Provo Store: 655 East 300 SouthProvo, Utah (801) 373-743- 9 - We Accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover Card tor Your Convenience 7am-10pHours: Mon-SPharmacy Hours: Mon-SaClosed Sunday CLOSED SUNDAY 1 t. 375-500- 0am-8p- 5 950 North State Street'Orem, Utah . (801) 224-099- 9 m (usurer. 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The Washington Post cited of- -. ficial U.S. sources in an Aug. 29, 1976, report that said Taiwan had been secretly reprocessing for, some time and had been producing plutonium for a nuclear weapon. The same article said that Washington demanded Chiang dismantle the reproChing-ku- o cessing facility and ship back related equipment to the United States. Chiang accepted the U.S. demands and asserted that Taiwan had ho intention to develop nuclear weapons. He issued a statement on Jan. 23, 1977, supporting President Jimmy Carter's call for a total ban on nuclear testing. Taylor writes that "privately, ordered the reproChing-ku- a cessing program put on hold for the time being but for research work to continue." Associated Press Reporter Bill Foreman in Taipei contributed to this story. ; building a nuclear device. But they did have the technology and the know-nowi- " . 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