It's hugely confronting and embarrassing for invited speakers, paper authors to arrive and then get excluded and escorted off campus.
Out of curiosity what's the latest terrorist attack sponsored by the Cuban state?
(Proposed false flag operation where the US joint chiefs of staff wanted to commit terrorist acts in the US and blame them on Cuba as a pretext for invading the island; it got up to the bloody president who shot it down, so it was a very serious plan)
Or maybe just providing free high quality heath care to all its citizens?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba ; The World Bank acknowledges that Cuba's life expectancy at birth exceeds that of the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Sponsors_of_Terrorism_(U...
That's hilarious. It's after the CIA sponsored coups against democratically elected leftists, like infamously in Chile. So it's a problem when Cuba supports movements, but not when the US does it? Or was it just "fascism is better than anything even remotely to the left"?
Also, "when was the last time" being answered with the 1980s, when we're in 2023 is downright embarrassing.
Whataboutism can work both ways
I've never been there, but my friend who's from Cuba says that hospitals, like all institutions in Cuba, more often than not lack the absolute basics.
This is not a federal rule. No one was required to be any distance away from the reactor based on their nationality. No one checked passports at the entrance to our building. The doors were just open.
That's why you can't find this rule online anywhere. It's not a thing.
Sounds like your campus security went on a power trip? Or more likely you misunderstood the situation.
Just because nobody enforces the rule doesn't mean it doesn't exist? It could be that the people who were supposed to enforce it correctly determined that the whole idea is BS and decided to save time.
It doesn't mean the rule doesn't exist and it can come back at anytime someone uninformed of this informal arrangement comes into the picture or goes on a power trip.
Unfortunately this kind of rule does sound absolutely plausible for politicians and administrative busybodies as a way to show that they’re “doing something” without actually evaluating the real risk or whether the proposed solution actually reduces said risk.
Our reactor had plenty of rules. The NRC visits regularly and inspects your security among many other things.
I know graduate students from Iran in nuclear engineering on grants by the federal government who worked with the reactor. This is not a rule.
There are enough problems out there, we don't need to invent more.
These are the basic rules in case you're curious.
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part073/p...
Of the entire university?
What universities have this policy?
The most likely situation is an over cautious interpretation of https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-inf...
US Universities often have many international students. Public universities often are large open public spaces. It seems highly unlikely it would happen just because of the person’s country of origin… all by itself.
But I'm curious, what is the distance?
The most likely situation is an over cautious interpretation of https://ofac.treasury.gov/sanctions-programs-and-country-inf...