A small but dangerous clause (Nuclear Materials / NYT)

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The New York Times
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2005

.. <When> world leaders are struggling to keep dangerous nuclear materials from terrorists .., a devious provision in the energy bill now in .. Congress .. would weaken controls on exporting bomb-grade uranium to plants abroad ... The measure is described as vital to keep the isotopes flowing, but its real purpose is to exempt isotope producers from pressure to work toward using safer forms of uranium ...

Each year, the major isotope producers use or stockpile a quantity of target material that would be enough to make a small number of bombs ...

The United States has .. leverage because it provides .. enriched uranium to .. MDS Nordion in Canada, and can impose conditions on its use. Under a 1992 law, the U.S. government can export bomb-grade uranium only if the recipient agrees to switch to low-enriched uranium as soon as feasible ... Nordion, to its credit, .. converted to low-enriched fuel for two reactors. But critics say it has deliberately dragged its feet on converting its targets ...

Lobbyists for the isotope makers .. have pressed to ease the rules for producers in Canada and four European nations. The energy bills eliminate any requirement that the companies work toward conversion by .. dropping .. "target" from a clause that now refers only to "fuel."

All this seems .. reckless given that medical isotopes can continue to flow under the current law provided .. companies work diligently toward conversion. Instead of easing that pressure, Congress needs to step it up ... At a minimum, senators concerned about nuclear proliferation need to insist that the word "target" be reinserted in any crucial clauses from which it is missing ...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/06/opinion/ednuke.php

[dArKeR]

1. If a "protected" undercover 60 Minutes "agent" went overseas and tried

to buy radioactive waste, or some biological virus/poison... I GUARANTEE YOU the mission would be accomplished very quickly. I think 60 Minutes doesn't do this (or has and won't air it) to avoid being shut down by the GOP/Bush Crime Family. I GURANTEE this stuff could easily be purchased in Africa, South/Central America, and Asia.

It gets back to something I've been posting for years. Any person traveling to these countries can easily see thousands of places of children prostitutes working for adults organizations under the protection which leads directly to Bush's "great Democracies." All you see the world do is a few reports from moral journalist once a year. Then you get the UN report once a year. "There's terrible traffiicing of child and women slave/prostitutes around the world." Names a few countries and it's over until next year's report. There must complete and utter corruption in the USA because we could stop this all in seconds by airing live broadcasts of children being paid and the beginnings of sexual acts.

Whoreland Security goes after adults making onsensual. agreements but forget about the children being enslaved into sex over the last 50 years.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1526211