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dissuasion (i.e., provision of efficient and reliable fuel and waste ser- 

 vices) or through threat of sanction (exclusion from services or other 

 measures) in case they proceed with national reprocessing efforts. 

 Such a resolution of the equity issue inherent in the NPT could also go 

 far in resolving the more general equity concemns that could be voiced 

 in relation to uses of the marine environment and the seabed by the ad- 

 vanced industrial countries. These concerns, which are related to the 

 general call for the creation of a New International Economic Order, could 

 be alleviated by an international regime for sub-seabed disposal which 

 would benefit all nations by providing an essential fuel cycle service. 

 In this way, international organizational measures could provide both a 

 legal and political support for a sub-seabed disposal program. 



