U.S.-India nuke treaty hits snags (Reid - Yucca amendments)

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON -- Yucca Mountain amendments are complicating Senate debate on a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India.

A bill carrying out the agreement would allow U.S. companies to sell nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel to India for the first time in decades while requiring the South Asian nation to work with the United States on nonproliferation matters.

Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., supports the bill but is trying to add an amendment requiring an affirmative vote from Congress in the event that spent fuel from India might be shipped or stored in the United States.

The government has designated Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a repository site for U.S. nuclear waste. Bush administration officials have said the Nevada site may someday play a role in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, an international fuel reprocessing initiative.

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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Sep-28-Thu-2006/news/9920527.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. So India is wise enough to try to get rid of the waste toxins via the USA?

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So they created 100 metric tons of waste, but dispose of 300 metric tons - -

Do the math:

From the posted article:

According to the Nuclear Energy Institute, India has generated 5,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel in its reactors.
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They could conceivably "smuggle" their waste into the good ole U S of A!

nahhhhhh

dey'd never do that

PNACers are too smart to let that happen . . .