To assert that IAEA safeguards on civilian plutonium are effective is inaccurate and misleading. There is no factual basis for stating that IAEA safeguards on commercial plutonium are now effective, or ever will be. This statement is being circulated at the behest of the LAEA and misleads delegates and the public into believing that weapons-usable plutonium can be used in civilian nuclear power programs without fear of it being diverted to terrorists or to nations wanting the bomb.
Plutonium is created in the wastes of nuclear reactors.
Civilian reactors used to generate electricity are much larger and produce far more plutonium than military reactors used to produce plutonium for weapons. Such an audit would take years. Diverted plutonium could be made into bombs long before any losses were detected. An additional 1,550 metric tons of plutonium will be contained in the spent fuel of power reactors at that time, awaiting reprocessing. To assert that it can detect significant losses of atom-bomb material when it cannot is a crime in the making against humanity.