Deal opens door for Saskatchewan uranium to go to India

My guess would be that India is just a stopover for the uranium on it's way to it's real destination.

Islamabad Pakistan.

I'm not quite sure how this all works out but I suspect that there are safeguards to ensure the stuff never sees Pakistan.

Why not, we sold them reactors and gave them nuke capability in the first place, why not make some more money off of them...

/sarcasm off

Personally, I don't like the idea of selling nuclear material to a nation that will almost certainly use it for weapons.

I doubt India is ever going to allow any company or nation to transport fissionable material through its borders to its biggest enemy.

You mean about 550 meters above Islamabad? Just like this:

I doubt India is ever going to allow any company or nation to transport fissionable material through its borders to its biggest enemy.

Don't think the verb he alluded to was transporting....more like dropping, launching or detonating

Would they use it for weapons, though? They have a pretty significant stockpile of nuclear weapons already. That being said, I have absolutely no idea how large India's civilian nuclear power infrastructure is.

I doubt India is ever going to allow any company or nation to transport fissionable material through its borders to its biggest enemy.

Don't think the verb he alluded to was transporting....more like dropping, launching or detonating





That's why I try to use emoticons to convey meaning - sometimes it's hard to tell context online.

Would they use it for weapons, though? They have a pretty significant stockpile of nuclear weapons already. That being said, I have absolutely no idea how large India's civilian nuclear power infrastructure is.

I guess it's possible they might use it for civilian purposes, but given that India and Pakistan are basically in an arms race, I don't see any good reason to toss gasoline on that fire.

The material we sell them isn't suitable for weapons, only for power. The advantage of CANDU design is it can use 'poor' quality uranium for power.

India used the CIRUS reactors we sold them to extract plutonium for their weapons (suspected, anyhow) and possibly tritium from the CANDU reactor for a hydrogen bomb. But the plutonium didn't come from us, or the CANDU reactors.

Yea, what the Dr. said.

The rest of you guys just want to keep Saskatchewan down.

We sold it to America for weapons use.

Why not? We should be doing everything we can to cozy up with India and establish a mutually benificial relationship. Ignoring the fact that Pakistan is no true friend of ours (so no tears over the arms race here), it maintains a balance of power. We can't put all our eggs in one basket, be it the USA or China. I have no trust for China, and befriending a country who could have our back if China goes loko, or vic-versa, isn't such a bad idea. In 20 years the reality will that if the world goes to hell, the only country who could muscle China around without resorting to nukes is India.

We sold it to America for weapons use.

It's one thing to sell uranium to your closest ally in the fight against Hitler and then Stalin, it's a whole other ballgame when you start interfering in a dispute on the other side of the world in which you really have no vested interest.

However, as DrC noted, apparently what we would sell isn't capable of being turned into weapons, so I say go for it. We can use all the diversification in our foreign trade we can get.