Guess who's representing BP at the White House?

[gsvol]

I don't know much of anything about the nuclear industry. While I understand the concern about proliferation, I was a little surprised at how real the possibility must be of somebody "walking out" of a nuclear facility with material. How would somebody go about getting away with something like that?

What I don't understand is the Clinton administration assisting the North Korean regime in the nuclear energy field??

The last issue is largely political, and it is therefore one of the harder ones...it's the most important in my mind because it's the fuzziest and hardest to address. If at any point you have a weapons-usable stream of material emanating from your civilian nuclear power program, you open yourself up to criticism of that program. The US would have much weaker legs to stand on internationally to call for country xyz to not have a nuclear power program (for fear of diverting it to a weapons program) if it could be argued that we are very likely doing the same thing. We would be in a much stronger position if we could build in inherent proliferation resistance.

Fuzzy and hard to address rings a bell.

We are calling for Iran not to have such and there is evidently no way we can stop them.

Meanwhile we are denying ourselves relatvely cheap energy that is non-polutiing, which is always the front burner issue.

I should have chosen my words more carefully. I'm sure it would be no mean feat to get away safely with some plutonium, either at a plant or during transport.

I'm more confused than ever, I thought they said Plutonium wasn't a planet anymore!