US nuclear firms try to break liability logjam with India

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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSDEL37749020090116?sp=true

US nuclear firms try to break liability logjam with India
Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:17am EST
By Krittivas Mukherjee

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Top U.S. firms have lobbied hard in India this week for a share in the country's lucrative nuclear market, but there was little progress on key policy issues such as accident liability protection for suppliers.

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LIABILITY CONCERN

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But U.S. firms are keen that India immediately sign a global convention on liability and compensation that limits the onus on private nuclear operators and suppliers in the event of an industrial accident.

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The issue is sensitive in India where a gas leak in a Union Carbide factory killed about 8,000 people in 1984, one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Victims of that accident say many still have not been compensated.

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[NNadir]

1. They must be joking.

Two weeks ago India completed fabrication in India of the grid plate on its fast breeder reactor 35% under budget.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/11/29/stories/2008112951491000.htm

They need American help?

Give. Me. A. Break.

But this brings up an interesting point:

The number of anti-nukes calling for the banning of methyl-isocyanate because of Bhopal is how many?

I hear very little from anti-nukes – who carry on endlessly about Chernobyl – about banning industrial chemistry, or even urethanes, because of Bhopal, although Bhopal killed far more people than Chernobyl.

Why’s that?