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India’s govt manipulating to satisfy USA nuclear salesmen

India’s stated commitment to ratifying the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage in the next year and to fairly treat U.S. firms was key to alleviating Washington’s worries about the liability rules,

Indian Atomic Liability Rules Satisfactory, U.S. Says, NTI: Global Security Newswire 17 Dec 10, The Obama administration’s apprehensions about a new Indian civil atomic liability law have been assuaged and U.S. and Indian companies have begun discussing potential collaboration on nuclear facilities under the two nations’2008 nuclear trade pact, a U.S. State Department official said yesterday (see GSN, Oct. 28). Continue reading →

December 17, 2010 Posted by | India, politics international | Leave a comment

Charges of crooked money deals by nuclear company

misleading statements about the viability of AEHI, which has no realistic possibility of building a multi-billion dollar nuclear reactor.

Idaho nuke company charged with manipulating stock prices, defrauding investors  Idaho Statesman, 16 Dec 10, An Eagle-based company that has been raising money to build a nuclear plant in Idaho — most recently in Payette County — has been charged with defrauding investors with a complex scheme to manipulate its stock price so its founders could reap profits. Continue reading →

December 17, 2010 Posted by | Legal, USA | Leave a comment

Drastic climate change would result from ‘limited’ nuclear war between Pakistan and India

The implications of nuclear war between Pakistan and India…….They conclude that a nuclear exchange involving 50 nuclear weapons would, in addition to the immediate devastation, send millions of tonnes of soot into the stratosphere and cause global climate change unprecedented in human history.

Rolling the nuclear dice with Australian uranium The Punch, Jim Green 15 Dec 10, Secret US cables concerning nuclear politics in South Asia provide important context for debates over Australia’s uranium export industry.

US cables released by Wikileaks warn that a limited Indian invasion of Pakistan, in response to an incident such as the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, would be to “roll the nuclear dice’’ and risk triggering nuclear warfare. Continue reading →

December 17, 2010 Posted by | climate change, India, Pakistan | Leave a comment

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