Article in todays AGE talks about uranium export to China. Seems clear that it is/will be conditional on the enrichment being handled outside of China as a guard against Nuclear weapons prolfertion. Go go go Silex.
Extract ....
Australia could begin uranium exports to China within months, a Senate inquiry has been told.
Much depended on how soon bilateral documents were signed and on commercial arrangements, but early next year was the best estimate, Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office (ASNO) director-general John Carlson told the inquiry.
The Senate committee is looking into treaties relating to the transfer of nuclear material between the two countries.
Mr Carlson said contracts could be entered into at any time but, to his knowledge, this had not yet occurred.
"But no material can actually be transferred into China until the agreements are in place," he said.
"We hope that will all be in place by the end of the year.
"How quickly uranium then transfers into China really depends on commercial arrangements and whether the uranium bought will be processed in other countries before going into China.
"In principle, we could have uranium going into China in the first half of next year, but that's speculative."
Mr Carlson said it would be a 30-year agreement and, by 2020 when China has projected energy supply through nuclear production at 40 gigawatts, the annual uranium requirement would be about 8,000 tonnes a year, almost as big as Australia's current uranium output.
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