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April 25, 2007: United States and Japan Sign Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan to Promote Nuclear Energy Cooperation


"This Action Plan establishes the necessary framework to coordinate activities designed to promote the expansion of safe and secure nuclear power, in our respective countries, and globally. It also formalizes an agreement between our two nations � leading nuclear technology countries � to collaborate in four main areas, and provides the additional foundation for the U.S. and Japan to align efforts in support of global expansion of nuclear energy.

Four main areas outlined in the Action Plan are:

1. Cooperation of nuclear energy research and development under GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Partnership);
2. Collaboration on policies and programs that support the construction of new nuclear power plants;
3. Establishment of a nuclear fuel supply assurance mechanism; and
4. Joint collaboration to support the safe and secure expansion of nuclear energy in interested countries while promoting non-proliferation, consistent with GNEP.

�By strengthening our joint cooperation in civil nuclear energy, the United States and Japan will also strengthen our strategic interests,� Secretary Bodman said. �This Action Plan is an historic agreement and provides the additional foundation for our two nations to align efforts to support the global expansion of nuclear energy, and ultimately a nuclear renaissance. Not only can nuclear energy serve as a cornerstone of sustainable economic development, but as a reliable, viable and emissions-free source of power, it offers enormous potential to help meet the world�s increasing demand for energy in a safe and proliferation-resistant manner.�

- United States Department of Energy Secretary, Samuel W. Bodman

Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)

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Article from November 2005 on investing in Uranium: http://www.moneyweek.com/file/7115/how-to-invest-in-uranium.html

James Lovelock, a founder of Greenpeace, has said: �Only nuclear power can halt global warming.�

Asia�s developing nations are going to build many more nuclear units, boosting demand for uranium

[pkang0202]

I guess I should start investing in Uranium.

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Should've done it 7 years ago buddy. Prices have jumped almost 500%, from just $7 a pound in 2000 to well over $40 today.

Here's a good source from 2 years ago on investing in nuclear ("Thorium, a close cousin of uranium, is cleaner and safer than current nuclear fuel, and more of it can be extracted from the ground. In fact, according to the World Nuclear Association, the mineral has more potential to create electric power than any on Earth!")

http://www.investmentu.com/research/uraniumstocks.pdf

[EFLtrainer]

I'm opposed to nuclear energy on the following grounds:

- The byproducts are just too dangerous. We have no way to contain them for the life of their potency.

- Chernobyl.

- Too expensive for many regions/countries.

IF they could isolate them within a bunker sort of contraption that would withstand any accident, then OK. If they can send the refuse off into the sun, then OK. Minus these advances, the slow poisoning of the environment is fairly likely. (I'm talking in terms of nuclear half-lifes...)

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