Venezuela wants Argentine nuclear reactor - paper

Venezuela wants Argentine nuclear reactor - paper

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Venezuela has asked to buy a nuclear reactor from Argentina in a request being handled like a "hot potato" in Buenos Aires because of leftist President Hugo Chavez's clashes with Washington, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Venezuela's state-owned oil firm PDVSA requested a medium-strength reactor in a meeting with Argentine officials in Buenos Aires in late August, saying it wanted to develop alternative energy sources in its Orinoco oil region, the Clarin newspaper said.

Officials were not immediately available to confirm the report on the request by Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and a key energy supplier to the United States.

Despite President Nestor Kirchner's close ties to Chavez, officials in his government were divided over the wisdom of selling nuclear technology to the firebrand Venezuelan, who Washington sees as a destabilizing force in the region, Clarin reported, citing unnamed Foreign Ministry sources.

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"Officials were not immediately available to confirm the report"
"citing unnamed Foreign Ministry sources"

Venezuela has already said it wants to develop nuclear power.
The rest of this is crap.

Yeah, pretty far fetched.

What does he need nuclear power for?

but the chimp does, in order to justify the invasion.

what he said

Bush's classism is the driving force in all this, his chronic inability to empathize with the underclasses and less privileged.

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