USA pushing India on Nuclear Liability Bill, Westinghouse & Genl Elecectric might pull out
Nuclear liability law: US seeks special exemption, Sep 10, 2010, By Uttara Choudhury: NEW YORK : DNA The US and India have been gunning for each other through the summer …..And now, India’s new nuclear liability law threatens US energy deals.
Despite the perennial irritants, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday that the two crotchety friends are discussing ways for American nuclear suppliers to get around the liability law. It said that if the two sides can’t find a workaround, American companies such as General Electric and Westinghouse would pass on the India nuclear deal……Nuclear liability law: US seeks special exemption – World – DNA
USA needs to make India change its law, in order to sell U.S. nukes
the nuclear ndustry in the US too seems to have been taken aback by the Civil Liability for the Nuclear Damages Bill, 2010……..the legislation would be “a significant deterrent not only to US nuclear business but, equally importantly, to Indian and other international private business as well”.
Nuclear liability bill: US looks to ‘changes’; BJP cries foul – The Times of India, NEW DELHI: 8 Sept 10, Even before the collective sigh of relief in the government over safe passage to the nuclear liability bill in Parliament could end, the US on Tuesday queered the pitch yet again by stating that it was already looking at “changes” in the bill. Continue reading
A sober look at policy on Iran’s nuclear programme
IAEA inspections and sanctions may not be a perfect strategy, but given the alternatives, they seem to be the best horse in this race.
Iran: 1, IAEA: Center for Strategic and International Studies, By Kevin Kallmyer, Sep 8, 2010, In a recent IAEA report, the IAEA disclosed that the agency does not have the confidence to declare Iran’s nuclear program exclusively peaceful.The report states that Iran has not provided sufficient cooperation to permit the agency to fulfill its mission and confirm that Iran’s program is peaceful, and is the IAEA’s third report in a row to draw this conclusion. Continue reading
Austrian and Bavarian challenges to extending life of Germany’s old nuclear reactors
Anschober said there had been a “decision for the profit interests of the atomic energy lobby and against safety concerns.”
Nuclear extension sparks Austrian meltdown — The Local. 7 Sept 10, Germany’s plan to extend the lives of its nuclear reactors has upset neighbouring Austria, where a environmental official has warned that a reactor near the border poses clear “safety risks.”
Rudi Anschober, environment minister for the state of Upper Austria, which borders Bavaria, also warned that the Austrian Federal Government was preparing to attack Germany’s plan. Continue reading
No UN agreement on nuke free Middle East
Passions have grown since last September when the IAEA general assembly overrode Western objections to pass a resolution directly criticizing Israel and its atomic program for the first time in 18 years.
UN agency fails to stage nuke-free Mideast talks, Google hosted news, By GEORGE JAHN (AP) –2 Sept 10 VIENNA — Tensions between Israel and Islamic nations have scuttled plans by the U.N. atomic watchdog agency to convene talks this year on a Mideast free of nuclear weapons, Continue reading
Not India, but General Electric, Westinghouse, France, Russia benefit from Nuclear Liability Bill
The first to benefit may be American companies like General Electric and Westinghouse Electric, followed by French and Russian nuclear power equipment suppliers……
Cracks in India’s nuclear law, Asia Times, By Indrajit BasuKOLKATA, Sep 2, 2010 – Pleasing neither supporters nor its critics, India this week passed a Nuclear Liability Bill, opening up the country’s US$150 billion nuclear power market to global equipment suppliers. Continue reading
Hezbollah wants nuclear energy for Lebanon
Hezbollah chief calls for nuclear energy, August 25 2010 PoliJAM , Lebanon, (UPI) — Lebanon has the right to consider nuclear power as a way to address an energy crisis in the country, the Hezbollah secretary-general declared….. I call on the government to consider building a nuclear plant for peaceful energy,” he was quoted by Hezbollah’s al-Manar news agency as saying.
Nasrallah’s patrons in Iran during the weekend began operations at the Bushehr nuclear power plant with the help of Russian atomic energy corporation Rosatom.
The Hezbollah chief said that Lebanon should follow Iran’s example and embrace nuclear energy as a cost-saving measure.
India’s Nuclear Liability Bill really aimed at protecting foreign nuclear companies
Russia, USA, keen to sell nukes to India – but not to pay for accidents
Russia says no to supplier liability, Business Standard, Jyoti Malhotra / New Delhi August 24, 2010, Even as political acrimony over the Nuclear Liability Bill rages in and outside Parliament, India’s old-time friend Russia has clearly told the Indian establishment that it will not accept any liability for the supply of equipment and other material to help India build its nuclear power plants, either in the present or future….. Continue reading
Iran nuclear power plant no “proliferation risk” says U.S.
U.S. Says Iran Nuclear Plant No Proliferation Threat – Radio Free Europe, 23 Aug 2010, Washington says it sees no “proliferation risk” from the launch of Iran’s first nuclear power plant.Russia, which built the plant, began loading nuclear fuel into the facility in the Gulf city of Bushehr on August 21.U.S. State Department spokesman Darby Holladay told news agencies that Moscow’s agreement to supply nuclear fuel and remove spent fuel rods minimized the risk they would be used to make nuclear weapons.”Russia’s support for Bushehr underscores that Iran does not need an indigenous enrichment capability if its intentions are purely peaceful,” Holladay told the Reuters news agency…….U.S. Says Iran Nuclear Plant No Proliferation Threat – Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2010
India gets nuclear submarine from Russia
Russian nuclear submarine leased to India -reports, MOSCOW, Aug 20 (Reuters) by Dmitry Solovyov – Russia has handed a new nuclear-powered submarine over to India for a 10-year lease, Russian news agencies reported on Friday, two years after an accident during testing killed 20 people.The Nerpa, under the command of an Indian crew, left its base on Russia’s Pacific coast earlier this week, bound for an Indian naval base, Interfax news agency quoted a source in Russia’s military-industrial complex as saying.Citing a source in Russia’s Pacific Fleet, RIA news agency said the submarine was manned by a mixed Russian-Indian crew…………India, Russia’s close economic and political partner since Soviet days, accounted for a quarter of Moscow’s arms exports last year, according to estimates by the Centre for Analysts of Strategies and Technologies, a Moscow-based defence think-tank. Russian nuclear submarine leased to India -reports | Reuters
Iran seeking to deflect international pressure
Ahmadinejad: give Iran uranium supplies and we’ll stop enriching President’s remarks appear designed to deflect international pressure over country’s nuclear programme Ian Black, guardian.co.uk, 20 August 2010 Iran would stop enriching uranium to a high grade if it was assured of the supplies it needed for a research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on the eve of the inauguration of the country’s first nuclear power plant. Continue reading
Russia supplying fuel for Iran’s nuclear reactor
Iran’s Nuclear Power Plant to be Fueled, Fox News, August 13, 2010 – by: Amy Kellogg Moscow has announced that it will start loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant on August 21st……according to Mark Fitzpatrick, it can’t even manufacture the fuel for Bushehr. Continue reading
Many in India not happy with U.S-India Nuclear Deal
The wages of the nuclear deal The N-deal has turned out to be what the US mandated, not what the Prime Minister had assured India, livemint.com, Brahma Chellaney, 15 Aug 2010, “…. the final deal ends up giving the US specific rights—enforceable through the pain of unilateral suspension or termination of cooperation—while saddling India with obligations. Continue reading
How come USA will let Vietnam enrich uranium?
The Shotgun: Filibuster: The first nuclear commandment, Western Standard, 15 Aug 2010, In a story that did not get a lot of press this week, the Obama administration has announced that it plans to go ahead with a nuclear technology deal with the Communist nation of Vietnam, despite that country’s refusal to make a pledge to not enrich uranium. Continue reading
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