Russia signs on for 4,000 tons of Australian uranium - but deal shows cracks in Moscow's atomic plan

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http://www.bellona.org/articles/Australian_deal

Russia signs on for 4,000 tons of Australian uranium –but deal shows cracks in Moscow’s atomic planning

Charles Digges, 13/09-2007

NEW YORK – Russian publications have finally revealed the country will purchase 4,000 tons of uranium from Australian in a deal the two nations signed last week in an effort to boost what Moscow thinks is a flagging uranium supply, Gazeta.ru reported.

Under the terms of the deal, Russia is not to sell the uranium to any third party countries, especially Iran, for whom Moscow is building a $1 billion light-water reactor.

Russian commentators have said the deal will indeed boost supplies in Russia to meet what one official said was a demand for 5,000 tons annually for its own domestic use, and a total of 15,000 tons for export.

Initially hailed as a strengthening of Russia’s burgeoning nuclear industry by Russian media, however, Vladimir Milov, the president of Russia’s Institute of Energy Politics said the deal is a clear sign of Russia’s failures within its nuclear sector to meet its needs, and in the end, put Russia’s nuclear industry at the mercy of western countries and western aligned industrial concerns.

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[NNadir]

1. Um, you do know who has been fueling most of the world's nuclear reactors for the last two decades

...don't you?

You don't?

What a surprise!

The car culture/anti-nuke industry has been reporting that the world is about to run out of uranium for several decades now.

Every two minutes we hear from the anti-nuke industry about how nuclear energy won't work. We never hear from the anti-nuke industry about whether dangerous fossil fuels are working, because the anti-nuke industry, working with Chevron and Walmart, couldn't care less about what dangerous fossil fuels do. The anti-nuke industry for instance, never heard of a coal mine collapse it couldn't ignore, or a million air pollution deaths it couldn't sweep under the rug.

Similarly, it cannot be bothered to give a rat's ass about the question of energy reserves, except when it is having a dumb fantasy that the world's 3 and half billion tons of uranium has disappeared into the night.

We'll just add this to the rest of the pile of credulous shit.