But they look scary enough for the MSM not to correct that assumption for their anti-nuke agenda…

James Greenidge
Queens, NY

ahhh in the land of the free i can’t even mention what i’m thinking of.

If this plan goes through we might as well apologize to Libya, remnants of Saddam’s regime, and the other Axis of Evil countries..and just pull out of Iraq!

Such a plan spits in the face of the sacrifices of our troops dead or alive…

My head is shaking big time.

Let me see if I’ve got this right.

While not doing anything to promote domestic energy production we are using tax dollars to help Saudi Arabia build nuclear power plants?

I’m too flabbergasted by this idiocy to frame a cogent comment right now.

 
The US is helping the Saudis with their nuclear program?
And these ragheads aren’t getting enough money from us already that our own government is FUNDING THIS?
Have we lost our collective minds? This is like given your enemy the rope to…

I can’t wait for the day President Obama goes to Burayda, Saudi Arabia to dedicate the opening of the Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab “Death to America” Nuclear Reactor. Maybe we can hand the Wahhabis maps of the most vulnerable places to strike in America.

This makes about as much sense ( probably less) than the U.S. paying for Mexico’s border fence (on their Southern border.)

To those I say whoever supplies them with nuclear fuel does so on the basis they will manage the spent fuel elements and take them out of S.A. when they’ve cooled down enough to do so safely and that S.A. will agree not to engage in enrichment or reprocessing.

Note during the Soviet era the former USSR supplied its satellites nuclear fuel on an ‘exchange’ basis, that is they had to return the spent fuel in order to get fresh fuel.

The level of enrichment used to fuel a commercial reactor isn’t enough for a fission bomb. I’m not too worried about anyone intercepting a shipment and converting it into a bomb.

OTOH, it makes a wonderful payload for a dirty bomb.

Even better, let the reactor run for awhile and use the “spent” rods and sister/daughter elements. It’s amazing what a good nuclear chemist can do with a working reactor in terms of making really nasty stuff.

This isn’t a state secret. There are Ph.D’s all over China, India, Pakistan, Russia, etc. who can (and have) gotten their degrees in this subject.

But if fission is really what worries you, there’s no denying that fuel rods are “halfway there” in terms of enrichment. If you use them as a starting point, you’re already well on your way to having weapons grade stuff.

So, you see, there is nothing but upside in the USA giving nuclear technology and fuel to the Saudi’s. Brilliant.

Did Dubya learn this at Yale, or was it Harvard?

Man, Israel must really be feeling it, now. They must be digging shelters like you wouldn’t believe, because we (the West, including our Fearless Leaders here in the USA) are backing them into a corner.

We like to think about all of the bad things that can happen if the USA is attacked, and that’s a valid point, but…

What if a large percentage of the Mid East’s oil production capacity is destroyed or rendered unusable in a nuclear exchange between Israel and their neighbors? Even if the interruption were only for a year or two, the economic effects would be enormous.

There are *excellent* reasons for us to be pushing hard for technologies that get us off of foreign (and even domestic) oil. The sooner we don’t need our “friends” in the MidEast, the better…