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

Sun Aug 8 17:18:10 CDT 2010

Franz;

I have no professional affiliation nor am I a health physicist.  Do I have 
your permission to read the radsafe postings?

Chris Cavanaugh
cav427 at cox.net
Yukon, OK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Franz Schönhofer" <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
To: "'Joseph Alvarez'" <jalvabeta at gmail.com>
Cc: "'Clayton J Bradt'" <CJB01 at health.state.ny.us>; 
<radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] U.S. Inks Nuclear Reprocessing Deal With India

You are kidding - I am polite, not using some other probably more
appropriate expressions. An email address is no identification -how should
it, since it can be chosen freely? Though being not at all a professional at
the Internet I recognize that it is you, who has no idea about it.

I need not grow up, I am old enough. I fully support young scientists
whenever I can,  but maybe you should shed the eggshells from your head
(literallily translated from German).

RADSAFE does not need such wannabes and trolls, you should leave RADSAFE at
once unless you can provide something substantial.

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD

MinRat i.R.

Habicherg. 31/7

A-1160 Wien/Vienna

AUSTRIA

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Joseph Alvarez [mailto:jalvabeta at gmail.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 08. August 2010 22:47
An: Franz Schönhofer
Cc: Clayton J Bradt; radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] U.S. Inks Nuclear Reprocessing Deal With India

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.

My utmost disdain,

Franz

I already posted my request that

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD

MinRat i.R.

Habicherg. 31/7

A-1160 Wien/Vienna

AUSTRIA

-----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 < <mailto:franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
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:  <mailto:radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu> 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
 <mailto:dutchbradt at hughes.net> dutchbradt at hughes.net

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