Khaled Toukan

Toukan is chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission. He has also served in Jordan's government as minister of energy and mineral resources and as minister of education. He has been president of Al-Balqa' Applied University, dean of the faculty of engineering and technology at the University of Jordan, and a research scientist at the Kernforschungszentrum in Karlsruhe, Germany. He earned a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982.

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Articles by Khaled Toukan

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 November 2012

Proceed, but with caution

Khaled Toukan

In my second Roundtable essay I discussed my concerns that fuel banks might be used to pressure developing countries into forgoing rights guaranteed them under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), even though the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
11 October 2012

Despite assurances, doubts persist

Khaled Toukan

In my first Roundtable essay I acknowledged some advantages that might accrue to a country that relies on an international fuel bank for emergency supplies of low-enriched uranium (LEU), but primarily I explored the disadvantages of such an arrangement.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
29 August 2012

For a fuel bank, fairness is paramount

Khaled Toukan

The basic idea behind an international fuel bank is that it would, in a reliable and nondiscriminatory way, make emergency supplies of market-priced low-enriched uranium available to states that sign up to participate.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
28 August 2012

Is a nuclear fuel bank a good investment?

Ta Minh TuanKhaled ToukanRamamurti Rajaraman

Among the fundamental challenges facing the nonproliferation project is that highly enriched uranium suitable for nuclear weapons can be produced in the same facilities that make low-enriched uranium for civilian reactors.