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USA and China to ‘explore’ nuclear energy

U.S.-China Joint Statement CBS News Political Hotsheet by Brian Montopoli November 17, 2009 Following President Obama’s meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao, the White House released a joint statement on the relationship between the two countries, ……..
………The two sides welcomed the establishment of The U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Program (ECP), a partnership between government and industry to enhance energy security and combat climate change. The ECP will leverage private sector resources and expertise to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technology.

The two sides agreed to work together to advance global efforts to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. They welcomed the recently-concluded Third Executive Committee Meeting of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, and the commitment of the partnership to explore ways to enhance the international framework for civil nuclear energy cooperation. They agreed to consult with one another in order to explore such approaches — including assurance of fuel supply and cradle-to-grave nuclear fuel management so that countries can access peaceful nuclear power while minimizing the risks of proliferation.

In Full: U.S.-China Joint Statement – Political Hotsheet – CBS News

November 18, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, China, politics international, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, radiation | Leave a comment

Iran may be hiding more nuclear plants

IAEA suspicious of Iran Radio Netherlands 16 November 200

A leaked report of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency shows the organisation is concerned that Iran may have more nuclear power plants than currently known. Continue reading →

November 16, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

World’s biggest uranium miner gets a very bad Report

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An ‘Alternative Annual Report’ is being released in London today at BHP Billiton’s Annual General Meeting, while protesters will mark the event at the company’s offices in Melbourne and Perth.

The Alternative Annual Report documents a number of recurring problems with BHP’s operations around the world – human rights and labour abuses, relocation of communities, mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples, destruction of sacred sites, adverse impacts on food and water, climate change, use of paramilitaries, health concerns, and irresponsible tailings disposal.
These problems are evident in Australia, West Papua, Papua New Guinea the Philippines, South Africa, Canada, Colombia and Chile.

In Melbourne today, protesters will gather outside BHP Billiton’s head office in Melbourne, highlighting the impacts of BHP’s plan to make Olympic Dam the biggest uranium mine in the world. (More information: <http://londonminingnetwork.org>.)

The Alternative Annual Report can be downloaded at:
http://tinyurl.com/yjjluqg

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Iran wanting changes to uranium transfer plan

Iran to Demand Changes to Uranium Transfer Proposal, Report Says Global Security Newswire Oct. 27, 2009 * Iran intends to demand significant revisions to a U.N. proposal Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Iran seems to be spurning a good nuclear deal

Dickering Over Uranium Tehran should love the U.S. offer on enrichment. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OCTOBER 24, 2009

One sign that an adversary isn’t serious about negotiating is when it rejects even your concessions. That seemed to be the case yesterday when Iran gave signs it may turn down an offer from Russia, Europe and the U.S. to let Tehran enrich its uranium under foreign supervision outside the country. The mullahs so far won’t take yes for an answer.

Tehran had previously looked set to accept the deal, which is hardly an obstacle to its nuclear program………………..the West’s enrichment offer is already a good one for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran would give up one bomb’s worth—about 2,600 pounds—of uranium enriched at its facility in Natanz to the low level of 3.5%. Russia would then enrich the uranium further to 19.75% and someone, most likely France, would put the uranium into fuel rods for transfer back to Iran for ostensible use in a civilian nuclear reactor. Western officials say this would delay Iran’s efforts to get a bomb………………

Iran insists it won’t stop enriching uranium on its own, in violation of Security Council resolutions. Aside from rewarding Iran for past misbehavior by letting it use illegally enriched uranium, this deal fails to solve the problem it is intended to solve. That’s because as long as the Natanz facility continues to enrich uranium at its current rate of about 132 pounds a month, Iran will produce enough low-enriched uranium within the year for a bomb………….

The mullahs know that President Obama is eager to show diplomatic gains from his engagement strategy, and they are going to exploit that eagerness to get every possible concession. The one thing Iran has shown no desire to bargain over is its intention to become a nuclear power.

Iran To Turn Down Uranium Deal – WSJ.com

October 24, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Complexity of the Iranian nuclear problem

A bird’s-eye view of the Iranian nuclear problem AJC September 30, 2009, by Jay Bookman “………………Long term, the best hope for stopping Iran short of a nuclear weapon would be a change of government in Tehran. Continue reading →

October 1, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Iran, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Imbalance of nuclear states maintaining arsenals, while condemning Iran

Obama and Nukes, talking the Talk, Awaiting the Walk

Thursday 24 September 2009

by: David Krieger | Miller-McCune

Of course it’s appropriate and accurate, I think, to welcome the kind of rhetorical leadership that President Obama has so far exhibited, particularly in his Prague speech of April 5. One has to hope that this is more than a rhetorical posture, but represents, as he said in the speech it did, a serious commitment to take concrete steps toward the objective of a world free from nuclear weapons. But one has to look at two other factors here that make me, at any rate, somewhat less optimistic about the real tangible results. Continue reading →

September 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons | Leave a comment

Iran’s previously secret nuclear plant a concern to the West

Iran confirms new nuke plant, Obama sees it as not peaceful
SINDH TODAY September 25th, 2009 PITTSBURGH/VIENNA – Hours after it was confirmed that Iran has a second, previously unknown, nuclear enrichment plant, US President Barack Obama Friday said the size of the new plant was “inconsistent” with Iranian claims that it was being used to produce civilian nuclear power. Continue reading →

September 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, politics international | nuclear, nuclear weapons | 1 Comment