Australia will not sell uranium to India, will sell gas
Mr Smith reiterated that his country will not change its stand on uranium exports.
Australia keen to supply gas but baulks on uranium , The Hindu Business Line K Giriprakash Perth, June 7 Australia on Monday said it is willing to supply more gas to Indian companies but remained firm on its stand on supplying uranium to only NPT-signatory countries. Continue reading
Australia agrees: Israel should come clean on its nukes
Make the Middle East nuclear-free, says Stephen Smith From: AAP News.com.au June 02, 2010 AUSTRALIA has lent some support to the goal of ridding the Middle East of nuclear weapons – which would mean forcing Israel to disarm. Continue reading
Nuclear Power Agreement between Obama and Australia
The proposed Agreement permits the transfer of information, material, equipment (including reactors), and components for nuclear research and nuclear power production
Message to the Congress Concerning a Nuclear Agreement with Australia. THE WHITE HOUSE, BARACK OBAMA, 5 May 2010, Politics News, – “I am pleased to transmit to the Congress, pursuant to sections 123 b. and 123 d. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2153(b), (d)) (the “Act”), the text of a proposed Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Australia Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy……. Continue reading
Australia condemns Iran, praises U.S. and Russia on Nuclear Non Proliferation
Only five states are allowed to have the bomb under the treaty,
Iran’s nuclear program of concern: Smith, Sydney Morning Herald, CATHY ALEXANDERMay 4, 2010 – “……As the conference began, outspoken Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the US of threatening to use atomic weapons against other countries.
This triggered a rebuke from the US, and Australia joined in. Mr Smith called on Iran to fully co-operate with the International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN over its nuclear program……Mr Smith said it wasn’t all bad news, praising the US and Russia for recent action to cut back on nuclear weapons…….The non-proliferation treaty, which came into force in 1970, aims to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
Only five states are allowed to have the bomb under the treaty.., Iran’s nuclear program of concern: Smith
Australia rejects its own Commission’s call for nuclear disarmament
Mr Smith rejected a key finding of the joint Australia/Japan-sponsored report delivered in December – one that called for reducing the total number of nuclear weapons to 2000 warheads by 2025………
Curb urged on Iranian nukes The Age DANIEL FLITTON, May 5, 2010 AUSTRALIA hit out at Iran’s nuclear ambitions yesterday, backing a chorus of Western countries warning Tehran must be stopped from building an atomic weapon. Continue reading
Australia to change rules so as to sell uranium to India?
Australia May Waiver Rules To Sell Uranium To India NUCLEAR EXPORT CONTROLS, Spectrum, April 26, 2010 Australia is planning to change its domestic rules to allow India to import Uranium from the country. Continue reading
Australia about to ratify uranium sales to Russi
Australia’s Smith Says Pact to Allow Uranium Exports to Russia , BusinessWeek, By Marion Rae April 23 (Bloomberg) — Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Australia and Russia will ratify a nuclear agreement that will allow Australian uranium to be exported to Russia for “civil, peaceful purposes.”Smith made the comments today in an e-mailed transcript of a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his visit to Russia. Australia’s Smith Says Pact to Allow Uranium Exports to Russia – BusinessWeek
Australia is complicit in Japan stockpiling plutonium
a problem succinctly explained back in 1982 by current South Australian Premier Mike Rann: “Again and again it has been demonstrated here and overseas that when problems over safeguards prove difficult, commercial considerations will come first.”.…The Rudd Government needs to break this habit and establish an independent inquiry to identify measures to tighten the safeguards system.
The Myth Of The Peaceful Atom, newmatilda.com, By Jim Green, 20 April 2010, “…………Last December, the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), co-chaired by Australian Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi from Japan, released its first report.
Like other bodies ICNND chooses to skim over the proliferation risks arising from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel — Continue reading
Gareth Evans against recycling nuclear fuel, and FOR Australian uranium miners
Mr Evans and a former US ambassador-at-large, Robert Gallucci, said recycling created stockpiles of dangerous materials ripe for theft……...
Recycling fuel should end: Evans, Sydney Morning Herald, April 15, 2010, WASHINGTON: A former Australian foreign minister, Gareth Evans, was at the centre of a dispute over reactor suppliers recycling nuclear fuel even as US officials sought to skirt the issue during a summit in Washington organised by the President, Barack Obama. Continue reading
Rudd conspicuously absent at Nuclear Summit
‘As a major uranium supplier, Australia has got a particular interest in the security of nuclear materials.”……..
Faulkner dismisses any suggestion Rudd’s absence means Australia is not taking the issue seriously
Bombs away, The Age, by Daniel Flitton, April 13, 2010……there is also the remote prospect that terrorists might improvise a nuclear device themselves, either a crude atomic weapon or a ”dirty bomb”, spreading radioactive material with conventional explosives. Continue reading
Gareth Evans – Australia’s uranium salesman
Is there any potential for Viet Nam and Australia to make co-operation in this issue?
Gareth Evans :Yes, there are because Australia has the biggest reserves of uranium in the world.
VietNam to play a clear role in nuclear non-proliferation Viet Nam News April, 08 2010 Gareth Evans speaks “…….Viet Nam also has an important role in the peaceful use of nuclear energy Continue reading
The rush to roll out ‘second generation’ nuclear reactors
Why James Hansen is wrong on nuclear power | Links April 8, 2010“…….With both third- and fourth-generation nuclear plants outside the time bracket, what is left for environmentalists who hanker after nuclear power? The only option for them is the one embraced by the French and Chinese governments, and now, it seems, by the Obama administration in the US: an accelerated roll-out of second-generation nuclear plants, built to standardised designs following rushed or non-existent consultation with the plants’ future neighbours. Continue reading
Australia firm on no uranium sales to India
Australia not to supply uranium to India , Hindustan Times, Indo-Asian News Service Melbourne, April 06, 2010 Australia on Tuesday ruled out changing its policy and said it would not supply uranium to India, ……. Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean told reporters in Canberra: “There is no prospect for a change. Continue reading
Rudd urged to attend nuclear security summit
Mr Obama has made safeguarding nuclear material a major issue as countries increasingly look to atomic power.
Push for PM to attend nuclear security summit, DANIEL FLITTON April 3, 2010 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is being urged to join a growing global push to safeguard the world’s nuclear supplies and stop nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists……The US embassy in Canberra confirmed yesterday the invitation for Mr Rudd to attend the summit was still open, despite the Prime Minister’s office saying last month Mr Rudd could not attend as the timing clashed with plans to discuss health reforms with state premiers……..It is believed Mr Rudd had been specially asked to speak at the meeting, expected to draw about 40 world leaders – including from Russia, France, Indonesia, Israel, India and Pakistan – for two days of talks beginning on April 12…………….Mr Obama has made safeguarding nuclear material a major issue as countries increasingly look to atomic power.
Australia says will not sell uranium to India (but can we believe this government?)
Australia remains firm against sale of uranium to India, The Hindu, AP March 19, 2010
Any Australian uranium sales to Russia would meet non-proliferation requirements, but the government remains firmly against sales to India, Trade Minister Simon Crean said on Friday. Continue reading
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