Up And Atom, It's Johnny Howard

It was extremely caring and sharing of the Bush Administration to wait till PM John Howard left U.S. airspace before introducing U.S.-India nuclear power legislation.

While the PM's been away, members of his cabinet have been loose in their talking, enough speculation to make journalists and bloggers realise that a scheme was a foot. Within 48 hours of the story breaking Mr Howard had released a repudiation of the concept that Australia would import nuclear waste.

In the U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair has pre-empted the announcement of a government nuclear inquiry's findings by endorsing an increase in the UK's generating capabilites by upgrading existing atomic energy plants