Together they account for approximately 85% of the world's installed nuclear capacity.

To put the treaty into effect, ratification by 44 nations believed to have a nuclear capacity is needed.

Following the 1973 oil crisis, the government announced a dramatic increase in planned nuclear capacity.

At the same time the Private Sector was not interested in the risk of building new nuclear capacity.

"Israel should be totally deprived of its nuclear capacity," he said.

There is agreement across the board to the point of saying, 'We need to have a nuclear capacity to a certain level.'

Administration officials said they did not believe that the control of Pakistan's nuclear capacity was significantly affected by the military takeover.

Those talks are unlikely to get anywhere, and they simply give the North time to add to its nuclear capacity.

There is also the question of Israel's privately acknowledged nuclear capacity.

Across Europe we are starting to talk about new nuclear capacity, and that is good.