Uranium policy a hypocrisy
Uranium policy a hypocrisy The Age DAVID NOONAN October 5, 2009
…………Unfortunately, Australia can never credibly lead on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament while spreading nuclear risks as one of the world’s largest uranium suppliers. The mismatch between Australia’s rhetoric and the illusion of protection provided by nuclear safeguards is stark in the case of China.As a uranium exporter, Australia has a responsibility to strengthen nuclear safeguards and to act decisively to disqualify any state that does not fully observe its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations. China is modernising – rather than eliminating – its nuclear arsenal and has so far failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. China is one country that does not meet its non-proliferation treaty obligations.
BHP Billiton’s plan to expand the Roxby Downs (Olympic Dam) copper and uranium mine is being considered by the federal and South Australian governments. BHP proposes the world’s largest open pit mine as a uranium quarry to fuel the global nuclear industry, with much of its efforts directed towards China. BHP’s plan would see Australia selling uranium-infused bulk copper concentrate for processing in China, transferring more than a million tonnes a year of radioactive waste and thousands of tonnes of uranium.
Australian uranium will effectively disappear off the safeguards radar on arrival in China, a country whose military is inextricably linked to the civilian nuclear sector and where nuclear whistleblowers and critics are brutally suppressed and jailed. This alone is reason to disqualify China from acquiring Australian uranium.
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It should be noted that many cadre of China’s inner circle still support any socialist fascist fanatical enterprise similar to that of their comrade Pol Pot in Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
If common ordinary people in Australia or anywhere were to hear the ranting and raving coming from China’s socialist engineers, perhaps they would experience a sense of complete terror.
However to the New World Order, everything NUCLEAR is regarded as a key component of “Laissez-faire” or “let anyone do anything anytime” economics even if totalitarian governments completely restrict the proletariat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire
Interestingly, Pol Pot and many of China’s elite have spent plenty time in confidence with French socialist elites. And France is a thoroughly nuclear-possessed nation.
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