So is Iran, which has been struggling with the same uranium technology for years, but has stopped short of conducting a test.
Almost anything is possible if you hurl enough money at it, but because the thorium fuel chain is not as intrinsically tied to nuclear weapons production as uranium technology, the technology has never benefitted from the impossibly deep pockets of the weapons developers.
Another important circumstance consists in the fact that application of uranium enrichment technologies for so denatured uranium fuel is substantially hampered.
It is almost certain that the country is working with highly enriched uranium (HEU) technology.
Investigators found evidence that Dr. Khan's network sold uranium enrichment technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya.
Pakistan got missiles from North Korea, investigators believe, in return for uranium enrichment technology.
The United States and Britain have declined to identify publicly the sources of uranium enrichment technology shipped to Libya.
He said North Korea has had a long history of cooperation with Pakistan, but that the relationship did not involve the transfer of uranium enrichment technology.
Two senior Bush administration officials have said the countries are discussing evidence presented by the United States that North Korea has secretly obtained uranium enrichment technology.
The talks continued and an agreement was signed that stopped the North's plutonium production until we abandoned the deal eight years later, because of the North's cheating with uranium enrichments technology.
