If acceptance of overseas waste is hot on Howard's agenda...
I wonder where all the poison will go???
and just how "hot" it can get downunda
:-(

HEAR.....
The poison, leave it!

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From: "brent ns" <brent_ns@>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:20 AM
Subject: [energyresources] No more nuclear fundamentalists


When India does get onto the international market for civilian nuclear
cooperation after the pact with the US is clinched, Japan could be an
important source of atomic technology. Under pressure from industry to
liberalise the policy on nuclear exports, Japan has begun to sell reactor
components and sub-assemblies to other nations. South Africa has been one
recent beneficiary.

Tokyo is some psychological distance away from exporting full reactors to
anyone, let alone India. But a range of civilian nuclear energy cooperation
- from nuclear safety to the R&D of a new generation of reactors - could
easily be considered by the two sides.

Like in Washington, sections of the Tokyo bureaucracy are strongly opposed
to the Indo-US nuclear pact and reluctant to consider atomic energy
cooperation with Delhi.

However, amidst a rapidly changing Asian security environment and the
transformation of Japanese politics, it should be possible for Delhi and
Tokyo to construct a bolder agenda for bilateral cooperation.
http://iecolumnists.expressindia.com/full_column.php?content_id=85163