Nuclear proliferation. It's not just for the big guys anymore. More on the Rokkasho anti-nuke event.
Japanese Anti-Nuke Activists Protest French PM - World War 4 Report - 13 Apr 08
"Undaunted, Fillon turned the occasion into a booster session for the Franco-Japanese nuclear partnership, and the nuclear industry in general. 'It is important France and Japan are the spokesnations of the reasonable use of nuclear on a global scale,' he told reporters.
He said it would be would be 'a political mistake' to refuse emerging economies access to what the French news agency AFP perversely termed (not making clear if its was directly quoting Fillon) 'civil nuclear rights.' (As we have stated before: Nuclear development should appropriately be viewed not as a 'right', but as a bad idea—in fact, a violation of the human right to freedom from radiation, and the anti-democratic measures which are the inevitable concomitant of nuclear power.)"
'Step by step, by respecting all the security rules, we would like to bring developing nations toward mastery of these technologies,' Fillon added. 'It is a very important political trend.'"
Japanese Anti-Nuke Activists Protest French PM - World War 4 Report - 13 Apr 08
"Undaunted, Fillon turned the occasion into a booster session for the Franco-Japanese nuclear partnership, and the nuclear industry in general. 'It is important France and Japan are the spokesnations of the reasonable use of nuclear on a global scale,' he told reporters.
He said it would be would be 'a political mistake' to refuse emerging economies access to what the French news agency AFP perversely termed (not making clear if its was directly quoting Fillon) 'civil nuclear rights.' (As we have stated before: Nuclear development should appropriately be viewed not as a 'right', but as a bad idea—in fact, a violation of the human right to freedom from radiation, and the anti-democratic measures which are the inevitable concomitant of nuclear power.)"
'Step by step, by respecting all the security rules, we would like to bring developing nations toward mastery of these technologies,' Fillon added. 'It is a very important political trend.'"