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• Hot fuel could freeze U.S. nuclear trade with India

  India - No reactor deals without reprocessing U.S. vendors of nuclear reactors seeking to build at least 10 GWe of civilian facilities in India to generate electricity may be frozen out of the market over the issue of reprocessing of the spent fuel from the plants.  In an exclusive report in The Hindu March 6, Siddharth Varadarajan writes that India has formally requested the start of negotiations... Posted Mar 08 2009, 10:25 AM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear fuel reprocessing, India, trade

• Domenici - time to recycle spent fuel

  Burying spent fuel is "an outdated strategy" Nevada Senator Harry Reid must be dancing in the aisle under the Capitol dome this week because his colleague, New Mexico Senator Pete Dominici called the Yucca Mountain project "foolhardy." He said reprocessing spent nuclear fuel makes a lot more sense than burying it underground. Domenici went a lot further saying that the "strategy... Posted Apr 11 2008, 03:18 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear fuel reprocessing, Yucca Mountain, Pete Domenici

• India nuclear deal may be near

  IAEA supervision of a dedicated fuel facility may be the key There has been a lot of chatter in the news media in India all weekend that extended negotiations between the U.S. and India over exchange of nuclear technologies are drawing close to a deal. The latest is that the negotiators agreed to a text, but that political reality has to be tested before it is released. Several sources say that U.S... Posted Jul 22 2007, 10:37 PM by Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes Filed under: nuclear fuel reprocessing, India