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Australia Opts to Sell Uranium to India
Australia’s federal Cabinet yesterday approved plans to sell Australian uranium to India, altering the nation’s previous policy of refusing to conduct nuclear trade with nations outside the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, The Australian reported today (see GSN, Aug. 1). The decision follows the completion of a U.S.-Indian nuclear deal under which Some critics suggested the new policy would undermine decades of nonproliferation practices by allowing trade with treaty nonadherents, but Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said he believed otherwise. “I think the reverse in fact is the case — that the more you can get the India civil nuclear program under U.N. inspections and under the U.N. protocols of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the better,” he said. “I think that creates a safer and more secure environment for those power stations.” Political opposition leaders, however, criticized the decision that was promoted by Prime Minister John Howard. “We see that the government is prepared to further undermine the NPT by selling uranium to
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