From KEDO to WEDO: Expanding Nuclear Power Worldwide Without Proliferation

Solving the global-warming problem using nuclear energy would require constructing nuclear plants in both the developing and the developed world. To accomplish this, the technology-transfer mechanism must be economically beneficial from the perspective of recipient country and securitybeneficial from the perspective of the community of nations. Some answers to how these requirements are to be met may be found in the Agreed Framework of 1994, signed by the US and North Korea, which helped establish KEDO, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization. Possible generalization of KEDO to a World Energy Development Organization (WEDO) will be presented in this paper. A mechanism to allocate credits so as to inhibit nuclear weapon proliferation while expanding nuclear power is discussed.