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...their desires for the future were carnal. Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell indicated a relaxed White House attitude with the crack that Carter "only lusts after Poles in his heart." Similarly, Carter's unwittingly public criticism of Desai for refusing to accept U.S. conditions on the purchase of uranium did not offend the Indian leader. Oddly enough, the episode proved a political plus for both men: it showed Desai's countrymen that he had not bowed to the U.S. President, and it also demonstrated to Americans that Carter means business in his efforts to control nuclear proliferation...
...nuclear materials the U.S. sells to other nations. Desai just as adamantly insisted that as a matter of "self-respect" India cannot accept such inspection-at least until the U.S. and U.S.S.R. start reducing their own nuclear stockpiles. Carter agreed to sell India the heavy water and uranium that it needs for its nuclear reactors. Whether a sharp letter from Secretary of State Vance will follow is now uncertain because of the overheard remark. Asked what he would do if he received such a letter, Desai said diplomatically, "I would not regard it as cold or blunt...
...long, needle-like rods encased in zircaloy metal sheaths. Once these rods have been used in a conventional reactor, the utilities normally keep them in large storage tanks that resemble swimming pools. But in reprocessing, the spent fuel is removed from the sheaths; usable quantities of plutonium and uranium are then separated from the waste and prepared as reactor fuel. Reprocessing thus not only allows utility companies to get more energy out of their nuclear fuel but also provides them with a way out of an increasingly difficult waste-storage problem...
Power companies are willing to pay a great deal for this service: the cost of the reprocessing of a single kilogram (2.25 lbs.) of uranium currently ranges between $350 and $450. Lately the French have signed cost-plus contracts with ten Japanese utilities to handle 1,600 tons of nuclear fuel over a ten-year period beginning in 1983; at current prices, that deal alone is worth at least $600 million...
After a two-year lecture campaign by Caldicott and her associates, the Council of Trade Unions, which comprises 75 per cent of the Australian work force, voted to stop all uranium mining unless a national referendum on the subject were held within a year...