This is the way it spreads, like a cancer

[robdogbucky]

This story was in the batch of Fukushima updates from the Japanese media today. I thought it deserved a thread of its own to give DUers a chance to chime in, at least to stay informed as to how things happen. Things don't just pop up one day out of the ground, fully developed. The groundwork is done beforehand with careful planning, putting things in place so they cannot be dislodged easily. Look how the nuke industry, the US government, the think tanks (whose? why?) et al, manipulate behind the scenes for years setting stuff like this up, just like they did when they shoved nuclear power down the Japanese peoples' throat.



U.S. pressing for deal with other countries to build nuclear fuel repository in Mongolia

Momentum has been quickly building behind the scenes for an ambitious and controversial project led by the United States and Japan to build a nuclear fuel repository in Mongolia as Washington is trying to secure a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with other countries concerned by the end of this year.

After the Mainichi reported on the proposal in May, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which wants to be able to buy nuclear fuel from Mongolia, joined the list of countries pursuing the project, and earlier this month the U.S. Department of Energy sounded out other countries concerned about signing a memorandum of understanding on the program by the end of this year. The project itself is to build a mechanism in which advanced countries force the maintenance of nuclear waste, which takes at least 100,000 years to break down to become harmless, onto developing countries.

On May 6, 2009, three men landed at Chinggis Khaan International Airport in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator. Two men from an American think-tank and a bureaucrat from the Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry held talks with then-Mongolian Foreign Minister Sukhbaataryn Batbold (currently the prime minister) and Defense Minister Luvsanvandan Bold, telling them, "Mongolia should become the Switzerland of the East." They then presented a proposal written in English on a spent nuclear fuel repository.

Mongolia, sandwiched between China in the south and Russia in the north, has long suffered from repeated interference by the two giants. Drawing on Switzerland, which declared itself a permanent neutral country and boosted its security by hosting United Nations organizations, the three men tried to persuade the Mongolian officials by saying, "If your country builds a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and has it managed by an international organization, China and Russia will no longer be able to meddle carelessly in your affairs. In doing so, your country will be able to contribute to the strengthening of security in Northeast Asia..."

(Mainichi Japan) August 1, 2011

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110801p2a00m0na02...




Nice, huh?

[dana_b]

1. disgusting

I guess we think that Mongolians don't matter?

[alsame]

2. Wow. k&r

[damntexdem]

3. Ooh, gaining true independence by accepting something that will kill off your population.

What a wonderful deal!

Well, at least it's not close to the ocean.