If these prove insufficient, the country may import uranium.

Many countries are not able to supply their own uranium demands any longer and must import uranium from other countries.

A fourth focal point has been the investigation of reports of Iraqi efforts to import uranium after 1991.

In late 1988, Japan's utilities, under considerable political pressure, said they would stop importing South African uranium for their nuclear power plants.

Each year, we spend $375 million in importing enriched uranium.

Second, there is no indication that Iraq has attempted to import uranium since 1990.

It costs South Korea about $370 million a year to import enriched uranium.

But it still would not stop a terrorist from importing highly enriched uranium, which can be used to construct a nuclear weapon.

International Japan's big utilities will stop importing uranium from South Africa.

He also said his team was investigating reports that Iraq tried to import uranium after 1991.