[Marxism] Hyde Act and the NSG.

[David Walters <dave.walters@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sukla wrote: 
        "What Mr. Sibal misses here is that nor are the 44
        other members of the NSG would have anything to do
        with the Hyde Act."

This is very naive. The Hyde Act has everything to do with the 
NSG and they know it. Nuclear "supply" has on  one real important 
central element: nuclear power plants (NPP).

There are only 5 countries in the world that supply commercial 
NPPs: Russia, France, Japan, Canada and the US*. The first, Russia, 
only supplies older, although reliable, second generations "VV" plants. 
Russia's supply chain is totally independent of the US. But because 
it's VV NPPs are of older designs, there is less of a market for them. 
The other four countries supplied III Generation plants that are 
cheaper to build, modular in construction and safer to operate. 
Therefor Gen III plants are the future and Russia is slowly being 
pushed out of the market until it comes up with it's own Gen III plants.

Japan uses technology developed in conjunction with Westinghouse and GE, 
both of which have nuclear groups that are actually owned by the 
Japanese (Mitsubishi based in Nagasaki and Toshiba based in Tokyo). They 
cannot, but dint of US LAW, sell anything to anyone proscribed by the 
US because the US controls where US technology is sold. If any element 
in the nuclear supply chain is developed with licensed US technology, 
it falls under the Hyde Act.

This gives a huge weight to the US within the US suppliers group. Many 
of the overseas companies use US control technologies and therefore can 
be proscribed as well if the US dictates it. No one in the NSG is interested 
in pissing off the US. Ergo, the "44 other members of the NSG" have 
*everything* 
to do with the Hyde Act.

David

*China, India and S. Korea are developing their own, one-day-soon commercial 
plants for export. Even S. Africa is getting into the business, pushed by the 
ANC gov't to become a major player in a few years.


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