The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) has expanded from its core five members - USA, China, France, Japan and Russia to take in 11 more countries including Australia and Kazakhstan.

GNEP aims to improve the proliferation-resistance of the nuclear fuel cycle while guaranteeing access to fuel supplies.

It is focused on limiting the spread of enrichment and reprocessing technologies and involves both political and technological initiatives, the latter mainly in relation to reprocessing which does not separate plutonium and which enables all actinides to be burned in fast reactors, thereby reducing waste management demands.

- Information sourced from the Australian Uranium Digest