Russian Nuclear Fuel

Re: Russian Nuclear Fuel - 8 billion?by: steamshovel2002 (49/M/PO Box 161 Hinsdale,NH)
10/06/04 07:38 pmMsg: 4026 of 4122

So the question is –is the USA government, an American corporation and the current Putin regime, raping the vulnerable Russian people in their times of severe economic and political troubles in selling HEU from the nuclear bombs? So why aren’t the Russia’s building modern nuclear power plants –and fueling them without fuel expense for the life of the plant with the Russian fuel – maybe make a Russian economic development electric zones (cheap electricity)…

So why aren’t the Russian using the HEU for their own electricity and economic development? How come we aren’t helping them build nuclear power plants? How come we aren’t turning the HEU into the appropriate nuclear power plant concentrations –and leaving it in Russia for current and later nuclear power plant use. Wouldn’t the lowered Uranium oxide concentrations not be a bomb threat?

The DOE Highly Enriched Uranium Transparency Implementation Program is illusionally expressed as transparency –but it’s just the opposite. The USEC is an agent of the US government –we got a corporate legal non public shield over this –and there is nothing competitive about this, which makes this operation extremely vulnerable to large scale corruption.

This is set up by our government to be “not accountable” to the American public –and intentionally hidden within the shield of a private corporation.We have no idea if this is the best use of this material associated with the Russian’s long term interest. Would we sell our USA bomb HEU to foreigners in order gain outside currency? It may be transparent to a select group of USA and Russian elite bureaucratic people –but to the whole world it is extremely untransparent.

How come there is no transparency with the incomes streams and profits –on both sides of the Atlantic. Who is making money over this? Where is the money going on both side and are the amounts appropriate. Are their any special deals? Do we have confidence that the hard currency going to the Russian Federation is going towards the Russian public good –and not being diverted to gang and thugs?This has all the corrupt ingredients of the Iraqi United Nation’s food for oil program!Thanks,mike mulliganHinsdale, NH
Extreme foreign dependence “NUCLEAR”!
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“Neither candidate has an energy plan to lead America to energy independence.”

Of course nuclear has become one of the most unstable “foreign” sources of energy with 50% of our nuclear power energy coming from the Russian importation. I do believe we import uranium at about the same percentage as we import petroleum. It should be a concern, whereas we import oil from an assortment of different countries –where we are depending on 50% of the Uranium coming from one country that is becoming more unstable as we go -this is an extraordinarily brittle situation.

If you want energy independence –it’s not nuclear! I could make the case that our hard currency coming from this sale to the Russian is becoming a global security concern.

Thanks
Mike mulligan
Hinsdale, NH