>Interestingly, Halliburton, US Vice-President Dick Cheney's former company,
>constructed the railway line between Adelaide and Darwin, now owned by
>Serco Asia Pacific, a leader in the management and transport of Britain's
>nuclear waste.
http://www.ntnews.info/articles/article.php?section=waste&article=mon02jul07can
>From: Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo lbo <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Australia ready to sell uranium to India
>Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 20:19:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
>There seems to be bi-partisan support in Australia for these kinds of
>sales.
>In fact, uranium mine owners are chomping at the bit to coerce the WA state
>government into giving up on its policy of blocking uranium mining. I'm
>opposed to uranium mining for just some of the reasons outlined below:
>
>Mike B)
>
>****************
>
>
>Disarmament has stalled completely. There are no nuclear disarmament
>negotiations currently under way.
>
>
>Preventing nuclear proliferation failed in Israel, South Africa, India,
>Pakistan, North Korea, and almost in Iraq. An extensive international black
>market has operated in 30 countries, peddling uranium centrifuges and
>Chinese
>nuclear weapons designs.
>
>
>Forty-four countries with nuclear fuel chain capacity have the materials
>and
>expertise to produce nuclear weapons if they so chose. As concerns about
>Iran
>reveal, nuclear reactors and the nuclear fuel chain inseparably create the
>capacity for nuclear weapons, whether by enriching uranium beyond reactor
>grade
>to bomb grade - the equipment and expertise are identical - or by the
>relatively simple chemical process of extracting from spent fuel the
>plutonium
>inevitably produced. Australia's bilateral 'safeguards' on exported uranium
>are
>essentially a toothless, retrospective bookkeeping exercise providing
>little
>more than 'an illusion of protection.'
>
>
>Sensitive nuclear technologies are increasingly widely available. Research
>and
>development on laser enrichment of uranium, including in Australia, could
>make
>it smaller, cheaper, easier and more concealable to enrich uranium.
>
>full:
>http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2007/1995827.htm#transcript
>
>********************
>uvj at vsnl.com posted:
>
>
>The Hindu
>http://www.thehindu.com/
>
>Friday, Aug 03, 2007
>
>International
>
>Australia ready to sell uranium
>http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/03/stories/2007080354421400.htm
>
>P. S. Suryanarayana
>
>By discussing safeguards pact
>
>Pact will be similar to the one we have with China: Downer
>"India has a strong record in non-proliferation"
>http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/03/stories/2007080354421400.htm
>
>
>
>
>
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