US think tank wants Oz not to supply uranium to India

[Pukhtoon]

Melbourne: Australia’s ruling Labour party government has come under fresh pressure to review its recent decision to lift a ban on uranium sale to India after a new report ranked the country poorly on nuclear material security.

The report by the US think tank the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) follows Labour’s proposal, ratified at its party conference late last year, to overturn its long-held stance against selling uranium to India, which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Greens party’s nuclear spokesman Scott Ludlam has been quoted by The Age as saying that the report highlighted how far India had to go in meeting the standards Australia should demand.

“I think this is going to force the government to put some teeth into this so-called safeguards agreement, which doesn’t address the kinds of issues that the NTI is putting down in their paper,” Senator Ludlam said. “I think it’s a massive wake-up call that, first of all, the change of policy at the end of last year was a mistake,” Senator Ludlam said.


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India placed at bottom of nuclear safety index compiled by US thinktank


NEW DELHI: Weeks ahead of the nuclear security summit in Seoul, India has been dealt a blow on its famed nuclear reputation. In the first-ever index of security of nuclear materials, India almost brings out the rear - just above Iran, Pakistan and North Korea.

The index, compiled by a US nuclear think-tank Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), "is the first Nuclear Materials Security Index, a rating and ranking of the security framework in 32 nations that possess one kilogram or more of weapons-usable nuclear materials."


India placed at bottom of nuclear safety index compiled by US thinktank - The Times of India

 

[amidamaru]

it all comes down to money.....

 

[Yeti]

Sour grapes from the liberal lefties.


US think tank the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) how suprising

 

[graphican]

it all comes down to money.....

Australia is not India .. I'm new here but I have learned money is not everything here. If you are breaking the rule, it should be broken for all or none. Does that make sense?

 

[OrionHunter]

Melbourne: Australia’s ruling Labour party government has come under fresh pressure to review its recent decision to lift a ban on uranium sale to India after a new report ranked the country poorly on nuclear material security.

Oh really? And how did they check this out when no one from this so called 'think tank' came anywhere near these nuclear installations? These arm chair analysts need to be packed off to the Moon. Or put on a canoe and dropped off in the middle of sh!t creek without a paddle! Jeeez!

 

[Yeti]

Australia is not India .. I'm new here but I have learned money is not everything here.

They did it for money pure and simple, Japan was stopping its nuclear program so the world demand of uranium fell down and it hurt australia

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The uranium industry welcomed Labor's decision as a sign of maturity, with Australian Uranium Association chief executive Michael Angwin saying it was a move beyond the automatic responses of the past.


Read more: Labor votes in favour of selling uranium to India

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The AUA says that, based on Australia's uranium exports and India's projected nuclear growth, Australia could be selling 2500 tonnes of uranium - or $300 million worth - annually to India by 2030.

 

[LEGENDARY WARRIOR]

lets see if the Aussies can deal with the pressure or not...

 

[Yeti]

lets see if the Aussies can deal with the pressure or not...

There is no pressure the ban was already been revoked this is a think tank not a goverment.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

couldn't get the document .

but found something that is good read

India | Country Profiles | NTI

 

[amidamaru]

Australia is not India .. I'm new here but I have learned money is not everything here. If you are breaking the rule, it should be broken for all or none. Does that make sense?

your missing the point.. we are all going through a global economic slide.... it comes down to money now, because australia will not risk its economic stability and prowress on unfounded threats........ india already has nukes.. it not going to make much difference if we sell them more uranium.. in fact australia should sell them uranium, at a higher cost, untill they sign non proliferation treaty, then we can sell it to them for a proper price

india is a big trading partner of australia, so we will garuntee ourselves more stability in the region, and also growth during these times regardless of fears of recession etc because we will trade, and become bigger and better trading partners with countries such as india and china etc..... australia is in a better position then all of the western world, in fact we are in a better position then most of the world... we can sell to india.. but not sell to say iran? or pakistan? because india is less of a threat then both of those countries to our interests.. does that make sense?

 

[Yeti]

couldn't get the document .

but found something that is good read

India | Country Profiles | NTI

NTI is aganist nuclear power full stop they will never support such a deal because India has not signed the treaty

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your missing the point.. we are all going through a global economic slide.... it comes down to money now, because australia will not risk its economic stability and prowress on unfounded threats........ india already has nukes.. it not going to make much difference if we sell them more uranium.. in fact australia should sell them uranium, at a higher cost, untill they sign non proliferation treaty, then we can sell it to them for a proper price

india is a big trading partner of australia, so we will garuntee ourselves more stability in the region, and also growth during these times regardless of fears of recession etc because we will trade, and become bigger and better trading partners with countries such as india and china etc..... australia is in a better position then all of the western world, in fact we are in a better position then most of the world... we can sell to india.. but not sell to say iran? or pakistan? because india is less of a threat then both of those countries to our interests.. does that make sense?

higher cost? do you understand how business works? you think we need to buy your uranium when we already have other sources

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We never going to sign the NPT keep dreaming

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NEW DELHI: Refusing to be scared away from nuclear energy as a viable source of power even after the Fukushima crisis, India on Saturday signed a civil nuclear agreement with Kazakhstan which gives Indian reactors access to uranium from the Central Asian country.

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

Hmmm...

This so called US Think-Tank should have told this to bush before NSG wavier!

 

[Yeti]

IF Oz wants to sell its uranium it will have to sell at market rate or we can buy from elsewhere the choice is yours

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Hmmm...

This so called US Think-Tank should have told this to bush before NSG wavier!

This think tanks is aganist nuclear power and uranium sales to anyone who has not signed the treaty what they say or think means nothing to India

 

[amidamaru]

NTI is aganist nuclear power full stop they will never support such a deal because India has not signed the treaty

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higher cost? do you understand how business works? you think we need to buy your uranium when we already have other sources

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We never going to sign the NPT keep dreaming

yea? who else is going to sell you more uranium?? you would think india be eyeing off buying off them since australia did have a ban on selling uranium to australia.. yet they still try to get us to sell them uranium.. australia is the biggest source of uranium in the world... supply and demand drives the prices.. and just like when you get loans off a bank, the bigger the risk, the more money you neeed to save to get a loan. same principle.... if india wants uranium.. it will buy it...

 

[rama]

every second guy in US claims to be a think tank who comes up with his "letters to penthouse" kind of analysis to tag a country or its actions as a threat to world but unfortunately the world they are talking about is too small i.e. USA only.