Areva acknowledges "preliminary contacts" with Libya for reactor

[bananas]

posted in LBN yesterday http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2929519
also see the reply there "Guess who works for (runs) Areva." (Spencer Abraham)

Areva acknowledges "preliminary contacts" with Libya for reactor

London (Platts)--25Jul2007

Areva acknowledged "preliminary contacts" with Libya for a power reactor, but
denied any connection between those talks and the July 24 liberation of five
Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had been held in a Libyan prison
for more than eight years.

The medics had been sentenced to execution, later changed to life
imprisonment, on what European officials saw as trumped-up charges of
inoculating over 400 Libyan children with the AIDS virus. After announcement
that the medics had been repatriated to Bulgaria, pardoned and freed, the
French antinuclear network Sortir du Nucleaire issued a press statement
denouncing what it called an "irresponsible...nuclear bargain" under which
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was instrumental in the nurses'
liberation, had allegedly promised nuclear technology cooperation to Libyan
leader Muammar Qaddafi.

An Areva spokesman said July 24 that Libya "did contact us" in 2006 about
various areas including nuclear power, and that there had been "exploratory
discussions" about cooperation, including in management of Libyan uranium
stocks. But he said the European Commission/French mission to rescue the
medics had nothing to do with that issue.

Sarkozy is expected in Tripoli for a state visit July 25.

http://www.platts.com/Nuclear/News/8175521.xml

[NNadir]

1. Trumped Up Charges Have What Relationship to Nuclear Reactors Exactly?

I notice that you had nothing to say about these trumped up charges and oil even though Libya's chief source of income is dangerous fossil fuel exports.

Are you calling for a phase out of dangerous fossil fuels because of Libya's use of trumped up charges, or could the relationship between oil, Libya, terrorism, and money simply be yet another thing about which you couldn't care less?

But man, say the word "reactor," even a conversation about the mere possibility of a reactor and suddenly you're up in arms about Libya.

Is there any special reason you couldn't have cared less about Libya these last several decades? I mean they did blow up an airliner over Lockerbie, didn't they?

Frankly, I would be happy though if Libya built a nuclear reactor assuming it were properly monitored. Dangerous fossil fuels are that dangerous, in fact.