http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE5355NK20090406

 

This is awesome. Iran gets the fuel they need for their experimental nuclear reactors, and uranium enrichment remains under strict control.

 

It's win-win!

Well, if there's one thing I like it's a large, international body that regulates flow of trade.

 

 

 

NOT!

Well, if there's one thing I like it's a large, international body that regulates flow of trade.

 

 

 

NOT!

 

Well if there's any single element capable of passing hidden costs on to involuntary third party victims that would be difficult for free markets to correct on... it would be uranium.

Well, if there's one thing I like it's a large, international body that regulates flow of trade.

 

NOT!

 

Can you point out where you think regulation of international trade should begin for the following items, if anywhere. They are on a continuum from least dangerous to most dangerous, so just feel free to point out the first one you think should be regulated:

 

- Uranium ore

- Milled uranium

- Low enriched uranium

- Enriched uranium

- Weapons grade uranium

- Plutonium

- Weapons grade plutonium

- Nuclear implosion lens

- Nuclear warheads

- Uranium ore

- Milled uranium

- Low enriched uranium

- Enriched uranium

- Weapons grade uranium

- Plutonium

- Weapons grade plutonium

- Nuclear implosion lens

- Nuclear warheads

Let's expand that, shall we?

 

- Sale of highly inappropriate things to children.

- Organs without a paper trail

- Voting machine software accuracy, defense mechanisms, traceability

- Lab isolated/bioengineered viruses

- Contaminants of widespread harm potential

Well, if there's one thing I like it's a large, international body that regulates flow of trade.

 

 

 

NOT!

 

ROFL! Funniest post of the week. I agree with bascule and Obama on this one, but I enjoyed the humor.

 

I understand the argument TBK is making about the slippery slope here, and it's a valid concern, but intelligent people are perfectly capable of drawing distinctions and weighing benefits versus potential problems on a case by case basis.

 

This strikes me as a good idea.

whoa guys, I was [mostly] joking.

 

Who extracts uranium ore, anyway. Do private companies do it in the US?