[ RadSafe ] U.S. Inks Nuclear Reprocessing Deal With India

Sun Aug 8 16:28:51 CDT 2010

Hi All, 

That is enough of the sniping. With the proliferation of hand held devices that are used for both personal and professional duties, I am not going to put my professional affiliation into every post. Frankly, it is not practical and serves little purpose. 

I find that having been bestowed with "professional credentials" does not prevent one from being an insufferable bore. It, also, does not make one competent to speak on all topics. Not having "professional credentials," does not mean that one does not have an opinion that matters. 

Jeff

Jeff Terry
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On Aug 8, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Joseph Alvarez wrote:

> Please note. I did identify myself and affiliation. How else were you able
> to reply? To claim otherwise is another example of your lack of
> professionalism. Please grow up.
> 
> 2010/8/8 Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
> 
>> Joseph and RADSAFErs,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ONCE FOR ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you do not like my posts you have two possibilities – you can delete
>> them immediately or even more convenient your browser allows you to prevent
>> them to be shown and being deleted automatically.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Why I am allowed to post on RADSAFE? Simply because this is an
>> international list of scientists and until now – I hope that Terry will not
>> change this to make it a nationalistic US site, dominated by US Army posters
>> – it is open to all scientists. That I am a world wide acknowledged
>> scientist should be clear to everybody except one troll on RADSAFE.* *As
>> far as I know* *from my extensive lessons at school decades ago there is
>> something like “free speech” in the USA. Has it be changed and depends now
>> on the judgement of Joseph Alvarez?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Joseph, your post is not worth to waste more time on it. You have not
>> bothered to identify yourself and your affiliation, so you do not follow
>> RADSAFE rules and I think this would be a theoretical reason to ban  y o
>> u  from the list.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> If you claim, that I do not post anything constructive – read my posts
>> first.
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>> My utmost disdain,
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>> 
>> Franz
>> 
>> * *
>> 
>> I already posted my request that
>> 
>> Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
>> 
>> MinRat i.R.
>> 
>> Habicherg. 31/7
>> 
>> A-1160 Wien/Vienna
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>> AUSTRIA
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>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> *Von:* Joseph Alvarez [mailto:jalvabeta at gmail.com]
>> *Gesendet:* Samstag, 07. August 2010 00:04
>> *An:* Franz Schönhofer
>> *Cc:* Clayton J Bradt; radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
>> *Betreff:* Re: [ RadSafe ] U.S. Inks Nuclear Reprocessing Deal With India
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Why is Franz Schoenhofer allowed to post ot RADSAFE? Please restrict this
>> person from posting. He does not post anything constructive.
>> 
>> 2010/8/6 Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
>> 
>> Dear Clayton and RADSAFErs,
>> 
>> Reading the news you distribute I just wonder whether I have been always in
>> a dream - I thought that there were some international treaties about the
>> proliferation of nuclear material, nuclear technology etc. etc. I do not
>> have the details about this treaty and am to lazy to look after them.
>> 
>> Similar treaties were used by the USA to accuse Iraq for breaching these
>> international treaties and therefore "justifying" the invasion which keeps
>> the world still busy and resulted up to now in hundreds of thousands of
>> casualties.
>> 
>> However this message is revealing, that obviously international treaties
>> are
>> binding for all nations on earth - except the USA.....
>> 
>> Please give me a reasonable explanation or flame me for being anti-American
>> - better Anti-US!
>> 
>> 
>> Franz
>> 
>> Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
>> MinRat i.R.
>> Habicherg. 31/7
>> A-1160 Wien/Vienna
>> AUSTRIA
>> 
>> 
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>> 
>> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] Im Auftrag von Clayton J
>> Bradt
>> Gesendet: Montag, 02. August 2010 21:52
>> 
>> An: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
>> 
>> Betreff: [ RadSafe ] U.S. Inks Nuclear Reprocessing Deal With India
>> 
>> U.S. Inks Nuclear Reprocessing Deal With India
>> 
>> Monday, Aug. 2, 2010
>> 
>> India and the United States on Friday inked a deal that would permit the
>> nuclear-armed South Asian nation to reprocess used U.S.-supplied nuclear
>> fuel as part of a broader bilateral trade cooperation agreement, Agence
>> France-Presse reported (see GSN, June 2).
>> 
>> The latest agreement demonstrates the Obama administration's "strong
>> commitment to building successfully on the landmark U.S.-India Civil
>> Nuclear Cooperation Initiative and is a prerequisite for U.S. nuclear fuel
>> suppliers to conduct business with India," the State Department said in a
>> release.
>> 
>> U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and
>> Indian Ambassador to the United States Meera Shankar signed the
>> reprocessing deal. Washington previously had only signed such agreements
>> with Japan and European Union states.
>> 
>> The comprehensive deal on trade in atomic material and equipment was
>> signed in 2008 during the Bush administration. However, U.S. firms have
>> yet to begin doing nuclear business in India as Washington and New Delhi
>> continued to hammer out the last particulars of the agreement. During that
>> time, French and Russian atomic companies have rushed to enter India's
>> expanding nuclear power market.
>> 
>> The recycling of used U.S. nuclear material is to take place at a new
>> plant under the watch of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the State
>> Department said (Agence France-Presse/Google News, July 31).
>> 
>> State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said "today marks one of the final
>> steps in terms of implementation of the U.S.-India Civilian Nuclear
>> Cooperation Agreement," the Hindustan Times reported.
>> 
>> New Delhi and Washington would like to see all remaining barriers to full
>> implementation of the deal dealt with prior to President Barack Obama's
>> trip to India in November (Anirudh Bhattacharyya, Hindustan Times I, Aug.
>> 1).
>> 
>> The last major hurdle to the deal is Indian nuclear liability legislation
>> that limits how much foreign firms can be required to pay out following an
>> atomic disaster at one of their plants. A bill on the matter has been held
>> up in India's Parliament due to strong criticism from opposition lawmakers
>> concerned the measure does not adequately account for the interests of
>> potential Indian victims. Without a liability cap, though, U.S. firms are
>> unable to secure insurance to operate in the South Asian nation.
>> 
>> In order to secure passage of the bill before Obama's trip, sources said
>> there is a chance of increasing the financial damages for which nuclear
>> plant operators could be held liable. Liability is currently set at less
>> than $110 million the Times reported.
>> 
>> The legislation could also be amended to make the details of agreements
>> between plant operators and nuclear material suppliers more open to public
>> scrutiny, the sources said.
>> 
>> India's coalition government is optimistic these tweaks to the bill would
>> secure enough votes to win parliamentary approval.
>> 
>> A senior opposition lawmaker, however, indicated there were additional
>> points of contention to be addressed. "The cap apart, there are issues
>> regarding environment and public health to be addressed. And the argument
>> that American life is more precious than Indian life is not acceptable,"
>> the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said (Jayanth Jacob, Hindustan Times II,
>> Aug. 1).
>> ********************************
>> Let's see now.  We don't reprocess nuclear fuel here in the US because the
>> danger of diversion of plutonium for weapons is too great.  So we build a
>> reprocessing plant in India instead where the danger of diversion is
>> lower?
>> 
>> Clayton Bradt
>> dutchbradt at hughes.net
>> 
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