I spoke out against this policy at this hearing. The year is 1988, Dallas, Texas, United States of America. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hearing, public comment on a new policy called BRC(below regulatory concern.) They had to come up with a creative way to dismantle and dispose of low level waste. So they came up with the BRC. Which basically said that if they spread the low level waste back into the consumer stream(they recycled it) it would raise our background level of radiation only another 500millirads which was an acceptable risk. This is the mentality of the people in charge of U.S. Energy policy. How long will it take before our government decides it's killed enough of it's citizens through these policies that have no regard for life and protect the pockets of the energy industry? How many Chinese will die?

Johnny, Johnny, Johnny.
What have you done mate?
First the Iraq war, to "help" the Iraqi people. Yeah, that worked, right?
Now this.
Selling uranium to China, is like Giving a gun to Saddam. Im not saying that China is going to misuse the uranium, im just saying that it is unnessesary, and it could bounce back on us.

Maximus

The respect is mutual. Your thinking is obviously deeper than I gave you credit for, not the ususal 'the world is gonna blow up anyway so lets all make a buck whichever we can'.

Yeah, they'd stab me, without an ounce of remorse.

And if the greens magically gained the parliament, they'd take Rio Tinto donations and stab me too.

But at this point in time the greens are the only ones who are talking about a world where multinatioal corps. dont hold govts. in their pockets at the expense of the environment and democracy.

So in this instance Senator Milne has my support.

A very interesting array of Posts, and it seems many are against the selling of our uranium to China.

1. As Gusi points out, we are not really in need of the income right now.

2. If it is true that Australia has the bulk of the world’s available uranium, methinks we are in a critical position as far as China’s future political ambitions are concerned.

3. Looking at China historically, there is no reason at all why China should have much love for the West. It is really not far back in time to the Boxer Rebellion, when China in anger over the way she was being exploited mostly by Britain, revolted in the Shanghai district. Anger was returned from Western nations with the invasion of China with Tientsin captured and the capital Peking sacked, China going close to being declared perpetually under Western hostage, but was finally let off to pay costly reparations over many many years.

Why shouldn't we sell uranium to China, nuclear program or not? China is exempt from the Non Proliferation Treaty, as it should be. It has every right to develop them.

Do some here feel uneasy that a non-Western country is developing nuclear weapons? That is a mighty quaint notion.

Sorry folk, elida has a flash coming on, many of you will bejoinin'Homar Simpson' in his job at 'the plant' working for 'the old miser himself' and you thought coal was stuffin' up the earth, bigger things to come.