Subscribe to RSSUranium sale ‘will weaken nuclear safeguards’
The Federal Government has paved the way for Australia to sell uranium to Russia. An agreement was signed in 2007 by the Howard government but it is yet to be ratified. In 2008 a Labor-dominated parliamentary inquiry recommended the deal be scrapped unless eight stringent conditions were met, including the resumption of inspections of Russian nuclear facilities by the global watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and that Russia separate its civilian and military nuclear programs. The Government has now decided the treaty contains “appropriate safeguards” for Australian uranium to be used in Russia's civil nuclear sector and says… Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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