Bush, GOP Again Exempt Foreigners, US grants license to NM uranium Plant!

Now Bush and the GOP are giving the foreign companies URENCO and LES an exemption from the Foreign Ownership oversight as well as a license to enrich uranium in New Mexico. It's not enough to give foreigners like Dubai Ports World, owned by corrupt sheiks, all our main ports, where they might look the other way or be lax while terrorists smuggle in a nuclear device.

No, now Bush and the GOP want to have foreign companies own and operate a NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT PLANT on US soil! This means foreign-owned companies will be enriching uranium, making bomb-grade material, here in the US.

Here is the link to the DOE letter requesting exemption from the Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence security issues:

http://www.citizen.org/documents/doefociletter.pdf

What part of the words National Security does Bush and the GOP not understand? This letter circumvents the usual Congressional oversight.
Do you think Congress should have been involved?

The other big news from this license grant is that it signals the full-blown return of nuclear power in the US. The industry was standing by to see if this license would be issued.

You can now expect a Nuke Rush similar to the Oklahoma Land Rush as Bush and Cheney have a plan to exempt nukes from much of the previous licensing and siting delays.

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U.S. grants license to N.M. uranium plant

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its first license for a major commercial nuclear facility in 30 years Friday, allowing an international consortium to build what would be the nation's first private fuel source for commercial nuclear power plants.

Construction of the $1.5 billion National Enrichment Facility, under review for the past 2 1/2 years, could begin in August, and the plant could be ready to sell enriched uranium by early 2009, said Jim Ferland, president of the consortium of nuclear companies, Louisiana Energy Services.

Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., a longtime supporter of nuclear power, said the license was important not only for LES, "but for what this facility will mean for the renaissance of nuclear energy in this country."

Ferland said the nuclear power industry watched the plant's licensing process closely, viewing it as a bellwether for them to consider applying for licenses for new nuclear power plants.

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LES is made up of European-based Urenco, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. and minor U.S. partners. Ferland expects Urenco's board to give final approval to the project when it meets July 5.

http://www.wired.com/wireservice/story.php?nosubnav=true§ion=Breaking&storyId=1540115

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It's the repuke way. :puke:

snip: The southeastern New Mexico plant would be near the small community of Eunice, where support for the project is strong. Critics say it would pollute the environment, guzzle scarce water and leave the town with tons of radioactive waste and nowhere to put it. snip:

Take the scarce water out of the ground and leave these towns dry and polluted with radioactive waste, that's the repuke stewardship of the environment. :grr:

here on US soil.

And that makes sense how???

important. Worldwide corporations belong to the same "nation" and the rest of us poor chumps belong to different ones, even within our own borders. We're at each others' throats over social, ethnic and racial issues to keep up from seeing that we are all serfs.