{"id":188854,"date":"2010-07-18T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/18\/a-foreseeable-result-of-pandering-to-the-us-nuclear-industry\/"},"modified":"2010-07-18T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T02:23:00","slug":"a-foreseeable-result-of-pandering-to-the-us-nuclear-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/18\/a-foreseeable-result-of-pandering-to-the-us-nuclear-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Foreseeable Result of Pandering to the US Nuclear Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the US deal to sell nuclear technology to India is pretty much a done deal, the Chinese are selling nuclear power plants to Pakistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

China is expected to formally announce the plans to build the 650-megawatt reactors in Punjab province at a meeting in New Zealand of the Nuclear Suppliers Group – the 46 countries that dominate and try to control the world’s atomic trade.<\/p>\n

The US has already voiced its disapproval before the meeting, which starts today, and will try to forge a consensus on updating the rules designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

US officials say that the plan requires special exemption from the NSG, [Nuclear Suppliers Group]<\/span> which China joined in 2004, as Pakistan has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and could, therefore, divert some technology to its nuclear weapons program or to another country.<\/p>\n

China and Pakistan disagree, pointing out that the US set a precedent by sealing a deal to sell civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India in 2006, even though Delhi had yet to sign the treaty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That someone would sell nuclear reactors to the Pakistanis in response to the US making a joke of the NNPT was pretty much a done deal, and a predictable consequence of this decision.<\/p>\n

I made note of this some time ago<\/a>, and when my predictions prove true, it implies a level of blatantly obvious that buggers the mind.<\/p>\n

The original deal with India was all about Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup> wanting to reward their friends in the US domestic nuclear power industry, US interests be damned, and the consequences are potentially disastrous.<\/p>\n

We’ll probably see a few more blips on Isao Hashimoto’s animations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the US deal to sell nuclear technology to India is pretty much a done deal, the Chinese are selling nuclear power plants to Pakistan: China is expected to formally announce the plans to build the 650-megawatt reactors in Punjab province at a meeting in New Zealand of the Nuclear Suppliers Group – the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1163,1044,1151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-nuclear-power","category-nuclear-weapons","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}