| Nuclear Transfer | | 2008-08-25 17:04:00 | | Nuclear Transfer is a form of cloning. The steps involve removing the DNA from an oocyte(unfertilized egg), and injecting the nucleus which contains the DNA to be cloned. In rare instances, the newly constructed cell will divide normally, replicating the new DNA while remaining in a pluripotent state. If the cloned cells are placed in the uterus of a female mammal, a cloned organism develops to term in rare instances. This is how Dolly the Sheep and many other species were cloned. Alternatively, if cells are extracted from the cloned cells during very early embryonic stages (blastocyst or morula), embryonic stem cells can be created. These cells can be grown in laboratories indefinitely and can theoretically be made into any of the 200+ cell types in the mammalian body, and thus are an extraordinary tool for biologists as well as a therapeutic agent with the potential to treat currently untreatable medical conditions.Tools & ReagentsNuclear transfer is a delicate process that is a | | By: Biosolution | | |
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| In Nuclear Net’s Undoing, a Web of Shadowy Deals | | 2008-08-24 23:18:05 | | By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER : The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement confirming rumors that had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had indeed destroyed a huge trove of computer files and other material documenting the business dealings [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
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| The Daily Buzz - Russia Threatens To Move Nuclear Missiles To The EU Border If Poland Hosts The U.S. Missile Shield | | 2008-08-07 12:18:00 | | -The tension over the U.S. "missile shield" is heating up. Russia is theatening to move nuclear rockets to the EU border if Poland hosts a U.S. missile shield.-Do you think your information is secure? A group of hackers recently obtained up to a hundred million credit card numbers using wireless internet systems.-Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, says that gay sexual relationships are "comparable to marriage".-Is the bird flu getting worse? 3 people have died and 13 have been admitted to the hospital with symptoms of the bird flu in Indonesia.-Lastly, the National Enquirer has posted a photograph of John Edwards and his alleged love child.
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| Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei says Iran won’t halt nuclear work | | 2008-07-30 16:07:13 | | TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that Iran would not retreat in the face of demands by world powers for Tehran to halt sensitive nuclear work.“Taking one step back against arrogant (powers) will lead to them to take one step forward,” Khamenei was quoted as saying by state television in a sermon. [...] | | By: Free Shared Mobile | | |
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| Iran’s Accelerating Nuclear Program Requires A Stringent Sanctions Response | | 2008-07-28 22:46:44 | | Iran has begun a new charm offensive to head off, or to mitigate, possible new international economic sanctions following its latest refusal to suspend, or even slow down its uranium enrichment program. Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an interview to NBC news anchor Brian Williams, which was broadcast tonight, denying that Iran had any nuclear weapons ambitions and stating that Iran is ready to meet the United States, gesture for gesture, in improving relations. Playing up on the...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| When We Use Nuclear Waste (DU Weapons) To Fight Our Wars This Is What We Do To Babies Born In Those Areas | | 2008-07-27 13:43:00 | | Most Americans do not know about depleted uranium weapons and most Americans could care less that we are using them.But Americans SHOULD care.The picture above is just one example of the massive deformities that newborn babies in Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing every day.According to doctors at maternity and children hospitals in Kabul, the rate of various congenital deformities have increased by many times since the US invasion.To see a lot more of these tragically deformed babies visit this site:http://www.afghanistanafterdemocracy.com/page10.htmlSince uranium used in these DU weapons have a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the U.S. military has ensured that countless generations of Afghans and Iraqis will suffer terribly from horrific cancers and deformities.To learn more about the horror of DU weapons please refer to this article which we published previously:http://shatteredparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/05/horrors-of-du-we-are-fighting-our-wars.html
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| Nuclear Blast Slideshow | | 2008-07-16 15:04:32 | | A reminder of the stakes in this upcoming election. Do we foster further animus, or cultivate amity?
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| Nuclear Deal & The Debate Goes On | | 2008-07-13 23:03:17 | | Cribb sent in by Mr. Ashutosh Kumar.
Do we (India) really need this Nuclear Energy (123 n.deal) so badly and urgently that we need to accept , terms laid down by some external power, body or nation. All of us are quite aware about the shady past and selfish policies of the so called Guardian of [...] | | By: Social Cause India | | |
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| Bush and Indian PM Singh Back Nuclear Deal | | 2008-07-08 21:33:05 | | U.S. President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are backing a controversial deal to sell U.S. nuclear fuel to India. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports from Japan where the two men met on the sidelines of a meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations.President Bush says the nuclear deal is good for both nations as they work together to confront challenges including climate change and security.It allows India access to atomic fuel and U.S. civilian nuclear technology in exchange for India opening its facilities to inspection by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.But the accord, first announced in 2006, has yet to pass either nation's legislature with American critics saying it will lead to a nuclear arms race in Asia and Indian opponents saying it will give the United States too much influence over Indian nuclear activities.India has tested nuclear weapons but has not signed the international nonproliferation treatyIndia's com | | By: A Pakistan News | | |
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| Nuclear Iran: There are no 'good' options. | | 2008-07-08 10:00:00 | | The consensus would suggest a cautious approach about whether or not to attack Iran. Just days after visiting Israel and amid growing speculation about a possible Israeli strike, U.S. Navy Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged caution. Postglobal has posted an interesting panel discussion where it debates just how likely or otherwise a U.S. or Israeli attack is, before President Bush leaves office.Bush’s Farewell Includes Attack on Iran – “Americans appear bent on either launching a strike or steps of covert action to create dynamics that will make it impossible to avoid waging war against Iran” writes Lamis Andoni a Middle East consultant for Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news station. more >>For U.S., History May Repeat Itself – “The possibility of an Israeli attack against Iran is always “five,” no matter the circumstances. An existential fear about the fate of their nation seems to be embedded in the Israeli psyche. Our dear pr | | By: American Interests | | |
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| Vacancy Stipendiary trainees in Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited | | 2008-07-07 17:13:00 | | New Page 1
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| Netherlands bans Iranian students from nuclear studies | | 2008-07-05 05:40:00 | | Breitbart - "It is forbidden... to grant Iranian nationals access to special training or teaching that could contribute to nuclear proliferation activities in Iran and the development of systems for transmitting nuclear arms," the foreign ministry said in a statement.Friday's measure adds to a Dutch decree adopting international sanctions against Iran that were put in place last year.It bans Iranians notably from the nuclear reactor in Borssele in the southeastern Netherlands, and from a test reactor at the Delft University of Technology. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Nuclear Iran: Diplomatic endgame fast approaching ... | | 2008-07-02 09:10:00 | | Said Sun Tzu, “All warfare is based on deception, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away.” In a recent piece over at Commentary Emanuele Ottolenghi suggests that Iran is pulling the wool over the world’s foreign policy intellectuals heads through clever techniques that propagate uncertainty about its nuclear intentions:“And here we see why Iran’s behavior over the past six years has been neither irrational nor foolhardy but rather shrewd, calculated—and successful. Even while loudly repudiating allegations that it is pursuing a military program, the regime has used every technique at its disposal to sow confusion and encourage divisions among its adversaries.""If Iran is telling the truth and desires solely nuclear energy—which would be peculiar, to say the least, considering that under its sands rest the world’s second largest natural-gas reserves and the w | | By: American Interests | | |
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| Iran To Go Nuclear In Six Months? | | 2008-06-25 14:34:57 | | Its possible says IAEA chief Mohamed ElBarade in a recent interview...From the Middle East Media Research Institute:If It Wants To Produce Nuclear Weapons, Iran Would Have To "Leave The NPT, Expel The IAEA Inspectors, And... It Would Need At Least Six Months to One Year" Mohamed ElBaradei: "If Iran wants to turn to the production of nuclear weapons, it must leave the NPT, expel the IAEA inspectors, and then it would need at least... Considering the number of centrifuges and the quantity of uranium Iran has..." Interviewer: "How much time would it need?" ElBaradei: "It would need at least six months to one year. Therefore, Iran will not be able to reach the point where we would wake up one morning to an Iran with a nuclear weapon." Interviewer: "Excuse me, I would like to clarify this for our viewers. If Iran decides today to expel the IAEA from the country, it will need six months..." ElBaradei: "Or one year, at least..." Interviewer:"... to produce [nuclear] weapons?" ElBaradei: "It w | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
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| US military loses nuclear parts | | 2008-06-19 17:06:30 | | LONDON: The US military has lost hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, in the latest embarrassment for The Pentagon, a foreign newspaper reported Thursday.Citing US officials familiar with a Pentagon report, the British daily said the US Air Force could not account for many sensitive components previously in its nuclear inventory. One official put the [...] | | By: Free Shared Mobile | | |
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| Pakistan NewsN.Korean nuclear declaration coming soon: Rice | | 2008-06-18 23:34:08 | | WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said North Korea will soon produce its long-overdue declaration of its nuclear programs and activities.Rice defended Bush administration policy on the North Korea nuclear issue in an address to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington research organization.U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, 18 Jun 2008Rice did not cite reasons for her optimism, but said she expects the declaration to be handed over to the Chinese sponsors of the six-party talks soon, and that the United States will respond by moving to take North Korea off its list of state sponsors of terrorism and dropping related sanctions. | | By: A Pakistan News | | |
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| [INDIA] Nuclear power ventures may get overseas funding | | 2008-06-18 02:05:52 | | Indian companies planning to set up nuclear power or renewable energy ventures can now look forward to offshore financing. The US, along with other G8 countries, is poised to create a $10-billion corpus for promoting clean energy in developing countries like India and China. The US, UK and Japan...
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| The Nuclear Network | | 2008-06-16 17:34:49 | | There were several reports, led by the Washington Post, on the rogue international smuggling network that managed to acquire blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon. No one knows where those blueprints were sold, or to whom. My sources in the intelligence community have suspected for several years that the network of senior Russian officials operating the criminal enterprise that Viktor Bout was a part of, had gotten ahold of at least two copies of the plans. Given Bout's extensive contact lists...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| The Strategic Threat of Nuclear Terrorism | | 2008-06-16 14:05:24 | | This afternoon, the Washington Institute hosted Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, the chief of Intelligence at the Department of Energy, as part of our 2008 Speaker Series, featuring senior US government counterterrorism officials. The speaker series is available here . Mr. Mowatt-Larssen spent more than 2 decades in the CIA before assuming the DOE post, working on WMD-related issues, among many other assignments. At the Institute, he spoke about the threat of nuclear terrorism, focusing not only on al Qaeda,...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| Nuclear Ring Reportedly Had Advanced Weapon Design | | 2008-06-15 09:56:03 | | By DAVID E. SANGER
WASHINGTON — American and international investigators say that they have found the electronic blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to the nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist, but that they have not been able to determine whether they were sold to [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
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| Ahmadinejad's past explains the seriousness of the nuclear threat | | 2008-06-03 10:56:34 | | I just wrote an article for the Middle East Times on how Ahmadinejad's past history makes it even more relevant to believe his threats. For an extensive coverage on the situation in Iran, please visit The Croissant (subscriptions available for a small fee). To read the whole article, please click here . Here is an excerpt: In just three years Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's controversial president, has become a household name. It is worth noting that for a man whose name is mentioned so much, not much...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| First documentary evidence Iran is into nuclear explosives, missile warhead design | | 2008-05-29 10:11:00 | | The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna based its new and damning findings partly on 18 intelligence documents submitted by the United States, and now accuse Tehran of willful lack of cooperation. Iran dismissed the documents as forged or fabricated.DEBKAfile reports that the documents came from materials contained in a laptop stolen from one of the heads of Iran’s nuclear program in Tehran in late 2006 by Iranian dissidents. It was passed to the CIA. Despite this evidence of an ongoing nuclear weapons program, sixteen US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, combined last year to announce this program was suspended in 2003.Even the nuclear watchdog’s director Mohammed ElBaradei, who often meets the Iranians halfway, has concluded that Iran’s nuclear activities are of “serious concern” and require “substantial explanations.” which Tehran has refused to offer.His latest report describes Iran’s installation of new IR-2 and IR-3 centrifuges for enriching urani | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Jury convicts Iranian engineer of accessing computer to use software from US nuclear plant | | 2008-05-28 06:35:00 | | An engineer from Iran was convicted Tuesday of illegally accessing a protected computer in the United States to use training software he obtained at a former job at a nuclear power plant in Arizona.The jury deadlocked on two other counts against Mohammad Reza Alavi: stealing protected software and illegally exporting the software in violation of the U.S. trade embargo with Iran. A retrial was set for Aug. 1.Defense attorney David Laufman said he plans to file a motion asking U.S. District Judge Neil Wake to overturn the guilty verdict."The government failed to meet its burden of proof on the main charges in this case," Laufman said.Alavi, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Iran, ran afoul of the law in 2006, prosecutors said. That is when he quit his job at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix and brought a laptop to Iran containing training software with design schematics and other details of the plant. More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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for Renewable Solar Power? | | 2008-05-27 17:27:35 | | Nuclear Power vs Green Solar Power, originally uploaded by solarshingles.I thought it is a joke, when I heard it on TV, today.'It is going to cost new tens of $billions on the top of $150 billion for clearing up old nuclear waste in Britain.'Actually, nobody really knows how much?Nobody really knows how many tens of $billions more!What a Labour party's and PM Gordon Brown's incompetence!?!One top nuclear expert said today on TV: 'nobody really knows, how to decommission these fantastically well built structures, which had been built to last for ever. The level of radiation is so high and dangerous, that nobody could stay there for more than a few seconds, despite the protection!'I am speechless.They are spending peanuts for wider use of endless and free solar power and other renewable energy sources. Yet, they are bankrupting the country only by clearing up old nuclear rubbish!Still, the same government and the same Prime Minister have already given the green light for building even ne | | By: Solar Shingles | | |
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| Nuclear Terrorism: America must remain alert | | 2008-05-26 05:11:00 | | "Make no mistake, obtaining and smuggling a nuclear device into America remains extremely difficult, my hope is that homeland security experts and those charged with policy creation in this matter will ensure it stays that way."FrontPage magazine asserts that American Policymakers would be foolish to dismiss the more serious threats to homeland security including nuclear terrorism.“Where a nuclear attack once may have been beyond the capacities of stateless terrorists, that is no longer the case. One need only consider Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM), mastermind of 9/11 and chief operating officer of al-Qaeda, who revealed under intensive interrogation -- including the much-maligned tactic of waterboarding -- that a nuclear attack against the United States was a top priority for al-Qaeda.”“According to the New York Daily News and its sources, the captive KSM told his interrogators that Osama bin Laden was planning a “nuclear hell storm” in America. Normally such a lurid claim w | | By: American Interests | | |
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| [EUROPE] Detenido un hombre en una planta nuclear sueca tras una amenaza de bomba | | 2008-05-21 04:46:25 | | La empresa de energía sueca Vattenfall ha informado hoy de que recibió una amenaza de bomba en una de sus plantas nucleares, y una fuente en el sitio ha dicho que el edificio ha sido sellado después de que hallaran a un supuesto empleado con explosivos.
La policía ha informado de que estaban...
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| Russia willing to help Viet Nam build nuclear power plant | | 2008-05-18 10:21:00 | | Russia is willing to cooperate with Viet Nam in building its first nuclear power plant, said an executive of Russia’s Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation.
Valeri Rachkov, Director of Rosatom’s Scientific Policy Department, said during the International Nuclear Energy Exhibition which wrapped up in Hanoi on May 17 that Russian companies have good prospect of winning bids for building the | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| Viet Nam to build two nuclear power plants | | 2008-05-09 04:34:00 | | Viet Nam will build its first nuclear power plants, with a design capacity of 4,000 MW, at Phuoc Dinh and Vinh Hai in the southcentral province of Ninh Thuan from 2012-2014, said Vuong Huu Tan, Head of the Viet Nam Atomic Energy Commission.
At an international seminar in Hanoi on May 8, Mr Tan said that the investment reports for these projects will be completed in 2008 and then submitted to the | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
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| The Links: Clinton Goes Nuclear? | | 2008-05-05 21:48:41 | | Served fresh (almost) daily...Indiana Polling Average: Clinton +5.8North Carolina Polling Average: Obama +7.7More than 140,000 new voters have registered in Indiana.Mark Halperin looks at the media spin you'll hear over the next week.Obama gets two more MD supers and one at-large super. Clinton gets a half super.A gas tax holiday, supported by Clinton and McCain, is unlikely to pass the Senate.CQ Politics predicts a slim delegate victory for Obama in North Carolina.A cyclone in Myanmar has killed more than 15,000 people.The Rezko trial is nearing its conclusion in Chicago.When "socialized medicine" isn't...Barack Obama: Manchurian candidate?Thomas Edsall reports that Clinton is considering a nuclear option to seat FL and MI.Marc Ambinder isn't sure her campaign could pull it off even if it tried.John McCain en español.Oprah left Trinity in the mid-1990s in part because of Wright.Clinton will be on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight.Monday Tunes: House Of The Rising SunThis da | | By: Political Realm | | |
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| Nuclear Syria aided by North Korea | | 2008-05-02 09:30:00 | | "I want to dispense with the need for affirmations, the call for absolute certainties and/or, unmitigated intelligence accuracy. Is not the mere prospect of nuclear technology in the hands of a terror sponsoring state scary enough to warrant action? ... Let’s get something fundamentally clear, even if the reports are only half accurate ... " What we all suspected may have been confirmed last week. On September 6 2007, Israeli jets bombed a nuclear reactor being constructed by Syria with the aid of North Korea somewhere along the Euphrates river - a reactor possibly built for the production of Plutonium. Find below the official U.S. Government 11-minute video showing construction of the purported gas-cooled graphite-moderated reactor at al-Kibar in an isolated desert region in eastern Syria, "a video presentation that summarizes ... assessment of this Syrian covertreaction project and their efforts to cover up its existence".Online Videos by Veoh.comThose wanting to explore it further | | By: American Interests | | |
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| Iran demands Russian nuclear shipment | | 2008-04-28 11:34:00 | | Iran demanded Sunday that Azerbaijan deliver a Russian shipment of nuclear equipment blocked at its border with Iran for the past three weeks.Azerbaijan has said it was seeking more information about the shipment due to fears that it might violate any of the three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on Iran over its failure to halt uranium enrichment.On Monday, Russian state-run company Atomstroiexport said that one or two trucks carrying the equipment for Iran were stopped two weeks ago at the town of Astara, on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border.Company spokeswoman Irina Yesipova said officials were holding talks with both Azerbaijan and Iran about the incident. She said the shipment contained "heat-isolating equipment" essential to the plant's operation but that the holdup was not likely to delay the startup of the plant.Iran is paying Russia more than $1 billion to build the light-water reactor at Bushehr. More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Mullen: Nuclear Project Reaffirms Proliferation Dangers | | 2008-04-26 22:42:00 | | By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, April 25, 2008 – Syria’s building of a secret nuclear facility with North Korean help reinforces the need to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.“It should serve as a reminder to us all of the very real dangers of proliferation and need to rededicate ourselves to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, particularly into the hands of a state or a group with terrorist connections,” Navy Adm. Mike Mullen said during a Pentagon briefing.The reactor, destroyed by Israel in September before it became operational, was being built to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons, and “not intended for peaceful purposes,” White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said in a statement issued yesterday.The reactor was “carefully hidden from view,” in the eastern Syrian desert and not configured for peaceful uses, the statement noted. In addition, it was being | | By: Military Enthusiast | | |
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| U.N. Nuclear Agency to Study Claims of Secret Syrian Reactor | | 2008-04-25 20:48:38 | | By REUTERS : VIENNA (Reuters) — The United Nations nuclear watchdog pledged Friday to investigate whether Syria had secretly built an atomic reactor with North Korean help, but the agency also criticized the United States for delaying the release of intelligence. The United States disclosed its intelligence material on Thursday, saying the Syrian reactor was [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
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| Front Page: Not Guilty in Bell Case, al-Sadr Calls Truce, Syria Secret Nuclear Program | | 2008-04-25 12:04:00 | | Not Guilty in Bell Case: Three New York City police officers have just been found innocent of all charges in the shooting death of an unarmed black man, Sean Bell, who was killed by 50 bullets on his wedding day. Bell, 23, was shot along with two friends, after a bachelor party at a strip club in November 2006. The case has generated outrage in New York's black community. A New York State Supreme Court judge cleared two officers of manslaughter and other charges and a third of reckless end | | By: PhreQuency Ent. | | |
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| Delhi University - M.Tech. in Nuclear Science & Technology Admissions 2008 | | 2008-04-17 00:23:00 | | Department of Physics & Astrophysics of Delhi University announces admissions to M.Tech. in Nuclear Science & TechnologyA Candidate seeming admission to this course must qualify the Joint Admission test to M.Sc. (JAM)- 2008 for admission to M.Sc. and other post-B.C. Programmes conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). http://www.iitk.ac.in/jam/ Qualifications: Minimum educational qualifications for the course is same as in JAM – 2008: Bachelor’s degree with Physics as a subject for at least two years/four semesters and Mathematics for at least one year/ two semesters. (60% aggregate marks for General Category & 55% for all reserved categories).Final selection will be done on the basis of an Interview.Candidates selected for this course will be provided a scholarship of Rs.3000/- p.m. and are likely to be sent to reputed Universities/ Institutes in France & USA for dissertation/ course work.For more info visit: www.du.ac.in | | By: Career Options and Higher Studies | | |
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| NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: Areva Investing at Least $7 Billion in Atomic Fuel | | 2008-04-16 10:40:56 | | Areva SA., the world's biggest nuclear-reactor manufacturer, is investing more than $7 billion in uranium mines and an ore enrichment plant to satisfy rising demand for non-polluting atomic energy.
The Paris-based company is deepening its investment in atomic fuel as it expects more than 300...
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| Un submarino nuclear aparece en medio de la playa | | 2008-04-16 03:27:19 | | Este Typhoon, también conocido como Proyecto 941 “Akula”, es un submarino de misiles balísticos desplegados por la URSS en los años 80 y son los más grandes jamás construidos.
Actualmente parece que solo quedan medianamente operativos dos y este debe ser uno de ellos.
Apareció en la playa de Severodvinsk, Rusia, ante el asombro de los numerosos [...] | | By: Mare Magnum | | |
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| Solar Power means Freedom of Mind, while Nuclear is a Life-threat | | 2008-04-12 05:45:00 | | It is happening on a regular basis, that security officers, who are guarding the most important parts of nuclear power plants are caught sleeping, while on duty.Turkey Point nuclear power plant located on Biscayne Bay, about 30 miles of Miami is just another case of sleeping, while on nuclear duty, which leaked to the media.Such cases of amazing incompetence clearly show, how wrong is the attitude of the staff, dealing with Highly Radioactive Material, which is deadly dangerous for any form of life, even after 100.000 years. The last case is not precedence, because sleeping while on duty was happening many times in mentioned nuclear power plant.Solar Power is free of charge and it doesn't represent a direct threat to human race and to all other forms of life on the planet Earth, such as nuclear power.Why, than, we are still preffering deadly dangerous highly radioactive material and nuclear power plants to serve our ever growing energy needs? Why not to switch to endless solar power, w | | By: Solar Shingles | | |
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| The Candidates Positions Re Iran's Nuclear Ambitions: Time for Some Clarification | | 2008-04-07 18:05:40 | | Iran’s leaders are once again displaying their usual intransigence concerning Iran’s nuclear and uranium enrichment programs. They have refused Security Council and European attempts to engage them in a new round of negotiations despite the new round of sanctions and offers of sweetened incentives. And they continue to play the IAEA card without providing any real insights into their accelerating nuclear programs. This refusal to engage in any meaningful dialogue on their nuclear program,...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| Iran to observe Nuclear Technology Day April 8 | | 2008-04-06 20:13:50 | | Tehran, April 6 (RIA Novosti) Iran will hold its second Nuclear Technology Day April 8 during which the government would tout the country’s achievements in the nuclear sector.
Iran has so far defied three rounds of UN sanctions in its insistence on developing nuclear power generation capability which several Western powers suspect is a cover for [...] | | By: Indonesia First | | |
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| India's BHEL to form JV for nuclear projects | | 2008-04-04 11:28:00 | | India's Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd on Friday it would form a joint-venture company with Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) for engineering contracts for nuclear power plants. BHEL and NPCIL, both run by the government, are in talks with companies from France, Germany and the United States for a technology partner, BHEL Chairman K. Ravi Kumar told a news conference. He declined to give names, but said the joint venture would be formed within a year. Equity structure of the joint venture is yet to be decided and will depend on whether the technology partner is willing to buy a stake, Kumar said. BHEL would use its existing facility at Bhopal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh for the venture's operations and the initial investment would be between 2 and 2.5 billion rupees ($50-$63 million), he said. The tie-up will take up projects both locally and overseas, the power equipment maker said in a statement. Ahead of the announceme | | By: Quick Scrip | | |
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| Youth protest against Indo-US Nuclear deal | | 2008-03-28 13:34:11 | | “We’re on our 8th day of fasting,” said one of the students from Calicut University, Kerela. “We don’t want nuclear to be a part of our future.” Several students including Abdul Rehman, Saji Mathew, Ramziya Rehmat, Tomy Jecob, Krupa and Divya, inspired by one of their Professors came all the way from Kerela up to [...] | | By: Delhi Greens | | |
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| Nuclear Oops | | 2008-03-27 03:19:52 | | China upset over errant U.S. missile part shipment - CNN.com Four nose cone fuses for intercontinental ballistic missiles were shipped to Taiwan instead of the the helicopter batteries it had ordered, Wynne said. He said the fuses, intended for a Minuteman strategic nuclear missile, were returned to the United States after the mistake was discovered.Oops. We're terribly sorry we sent nuclear missile components to Taiwan. This sort of thing scares the hell out of me. It's the same kind of problem that has terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting with our guns. How the hell do these kinds of mistakes happen? Exactly how do we accidentally ship nuclear missile components to Taiwan?I don't care how big the DOD is, or how complex it is to keep track of deadly weapons, I'm certain this should be a no excuses kind of moment. Maybe it's just me, but I would start by not storing my nuclear missile parts with helicopter batteries. Or maybe someone, somewhere should have looked in the | | By: Markism Explored | | |
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| Dirty Nuclear cost more than $150 billion just for the old waste | | 2008-03-22 13:19:00 | | Clearing up old nuclear waste from old nuclear plants in Britain is going to cost more than $150 billion (£75 billion) !!!That is an insane huge number. All that huge money is going to be wasted just to cover up old nuclear rubbish and to hide it to new location, where is going to stay deadly harmful and highly radioactive for next thousands of years!!!$150 billion is $150.000 millions. And absolutely no real intention about totally sustainable and harmless solar power.One could imagine $1 million.One could hardly imagine $1000 million(s).But, it is almost impossible to imagine 150.000 million(s).$150.000 million is going to be just thrown away for cleaning up old nuclear power plants in Britain (UK). Solar power is endless and absolutely free of charge. There are millions of roofs out there which are waiting to be covered by solar power shingles.Still, Britain's PM and government are planning new deadly nuclear power plants??? Before, old dirty and deadly dangerous sins have been eve | | By: Solar Shingles | | |
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| RI to build four nuclear power plants until 2025 | | 2008-03-16 20:54:38 | | RI to build four nuclear power plants until 2025
Solo, Central Java - The Indonesian government is planning to build four nuclear power plants (PLTNs) until 2025 to meet domestic demand for electricity, Research and Technology Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman said here Wednesday.
“If one PLTN has a capacity to produce 1,200 MW, we will be needing four [...] | | By: Indonesia First | | |
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| Turkey’s army chief warns Pakistan’s nuclear arms could fall into Taliban hands | | 2008-03-10 14:42:00 | | DEBKA - Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, the Turkish chief of staff, said if President Pervez Musharraf lost his grip, Pakistan could fall into Taliban hands and a terrorist organization gain control of nuclear arms for the first time. The general was addressing an international terrorism conference in Ankara Monday, March 10. Sunday, the two parties in opposition to Musharraf forged a power-sharing alliance to govern Pakistan, vowing to evict him from the presidency. Islamist groups have also stepped up their attacks since the Feb. 18 general election. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Reformers decry Iran president's nuclear rhetoric | | 2008-03-10 02:21:00 | | TEHRAN (Reuters) - A leading Iranian reformist said on Sunday that "provocative" speeches had damaged Iran's nuclear cause and its diplomatic standing in a veiled attack on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.ADVERTISEMENT"Our policy is one of detente. We want to have interaction with the whole world except Israel," former parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karoubi told a news conference ahead of Friday's parliamentary election.He urged voters to turn out for the poll, even though reformists are contesting little more than half the 290 seats. A vetting council has disqualified many of their candidates.yahoo | | By: President World | | |
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| Iran To Go Nuclear In One Year? | | 2008-02-24 14:06:29 | | According to the European Commission Joint Research Center it is possible although not probable:From Der SpiegelAs part of a project to improve control of nuclear materials, the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy set up a detailed simulation of the centrifuges currently used by Iran in the Natanz nuclear facility to enrich uranium. The results look nothing like those reached by the US intelligence community. For one scenario, the JRC scientists assumed the centrifuges in Natanz were operating at 100 percent efficiency. Were that the case, Iran could already have the 25 kilograms of highly enriched uranium necessary for an atomic device by the end of this year. Another scenario assumed a much lower efficiency -- just 25 percent. But even then, Iran would have produced enough uranium by the end of 2010. For the purposes of the simulation, the JRC modelled each of the centrifuges individually and then hooked them together to form the kind of cascade necessar | | By: Dyre Portents | | |
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| Just sick destruction - nuclear testing not very safe | | 2008-02-09 10:24:04 | | In 1954 the US government pulled some really sick shit, they needed a place to test the hydrogen bomb and found a central pacific island to do it at. Showing very little regard for the inhabitants, they turned the island and the surrounding islands into a radioactive wasteland. Having grossly underestimated the size of the [...] | | By: Just Sick Shit | | |
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| The Indo-Us Nuclear Deal | | 2008-02-07 01:14:27 | | IIPM Mumbai Parables - Stories that change life Indo-US 123 Agreement. It solves the enriched uranium shortage that has hampered India’s nuclear programme for decades, pushing India down to 27 among the 30 countries using nuclear power.123 also preserves India’s right to reprocess the spent fuel from civilian reactors producing commercial power.While the agreement claims not to impinge upon India’s military strategic programme, it has been accorded the status of non-nuclear weapons state and if India chooses to conduct tests that are found to violate IAEA norms, the US has a right to terminate the agreement. But even this termination will have to be followed by a year’s notice.If the US goes ahead with the termination, it has a right of return over materials transferred under the 123 Agreement. The right to return is not automatic. Instead, the US will first consider the circumstances in which India has conducted the test.Even after the numerous barriers before the right to ret | | By: IIPM BEST MBA INSTITUTE | | |
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| Nuclear Iran: Reality Check (ii) | | 2008-02-06 23:57:00 | | "2008 may yet provide Iran with an opportunity to relentless pursue its enrichment program while the world focuses on the U.S. Presidential race. As important as the next U.S. President may be, we cannot afford to allow the race to dim our view ... obscure our judgment. "Before we consider the opinions of the many who have drawn the same conclusion, know this first:Iran has no need for nuclear energy because of its immense oil and natural gas reserves which are equivalent to 9.3 percent of the world's reserves. In fact, Iran has 73,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas, an amount second only to the natural gas reserves of Russia.Iran remains the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism and is on the Department of State's list of countries that provide support for acts of international terrorism.Iran has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel. Iran supports organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestine Islamic Jihad, which are responsible for terrorist at | | By: American Interests | | |
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| Malaysia ratifies the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty | | 2008-01-21 23:24:00 | | Vienna, Austria, 18 January 2008 -Malaysia ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) on 17 January 2008, bringing the total number of ratifications to 143.“We welcome the decision by Malaysia to ratify the CTBT”, said Tibor Tóth, the Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) in a statement: “This is very important internationally, but also regionally: Malaysia’s ratification tips the balance in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) where 6 out of 10 countries now have ratified the Treaty.”In ASEAN, Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam have now ratified the CTBT, whereas Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand have yet to ratify it.Malaysia is very active on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation issues. It chaired the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in 2004-2006, and coordinates the NAM on CTBT issues i | | By: Military Enthusiast | | |
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| Edelman's Moral Quandaries (Pt. 4)--Dropping Nuclear Options | | 2008-01-21 23:02:00 | | The concern over nuclear weaponry and nuclear power plants (or nuclear anything really) has been strong ever since we bombed Japan in WW2. As Edelman says:Once upon a time, two countries were idiotic enough to play a high-stakes game of chess where the stakes were the survival of the human race. You don’t like my way of governing? Fine, then let’s blow the whole place to hell and you can’t govern any of it. Figuring out how to get rid of these weapons so that nobody has the power to scour the planet clean is one heck of a challenge. There’s no Cold War anymore, but the odds of a nuclear war breaking out in either the Middle East or the Indian subcontinent are still much too high for us to ignore. (Personally, I don’t think the threat is going anywhere until some theoretical point in the future when we’re living so much of our lives virtually that physical threats just don’t make sense anymore.)Let's face it, nuclear 'anything' has been a source of concern not only in our | | By: The World in the Satin Bag | | |
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| The successful test-firing of an Israeli long-range nuclear-capable missile Thursday timed for Russian naval exercise | | 2008-01-19 14:49:00 | | DEBKAFile - It was coordinated with the US Missile Defense Program.Israeli and US defense officials tied up the last ends during President George. W. Bush’s visit last week. The successful test of a propulsion system for the dual-stage missile from the Palmahim base Thursday, Jan. 17The new system can propel the missile to any point on earth – an intercontinental capability owned only by the US, Russia, China and FranceThe test’s context was as much the huge Russian naval maneuver launched in the Mediterranean Tuesday, Jan. 16, as missile and potential nuclear threats from Iran. Eleven vessels were drawn for the war game from two Russian fleets, Atlantic Northwest and Black Sea. It is led by the Admiral Kuznetsov air carrier with 47 warplanes and 10 helicopters on board and the Moskva missile cruiser.The Israeli propulsion test coincided with a tactical Russian missile launch and landed in the same part of the sea. It sent out a signal that the entire Mediterranean, including the permanent bases Moscow is in the course of establishing in the Syrian naval ports of Tartous and Latakia, are within range. Our military sources report that US Sixth Fleet vessels cordoned off the landing area of the Israeli missile and prevented Russian ships from closely tracking its course.Western military sources sum up the test as demonstrating that while Iran was still in the development stage of its ballistic missiles, Israel had raced ahead and left the Islamic Republic standing. | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Head of nuclear commission gets the axe | | 2008-01-16 08:27:00 | | Fireworks are expected at a Commons committee Wednesday following the government's firing of the president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. Opposition MPs on the natural resources committee will likely demand to know from Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn why he fired Linda Keen, president of the arms-length commission, who was blamed by the government for the shutdown of the Chalk | | By: News Alert | | |
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| Prosper Approaching Nuclear War | | 2007-12-30 22:02:00 | | Lawsuits are like nuclear weapons, it's the option of last resort and pretty much assures either destruction of MASSIVE damage to all sides involved. When lawsuits fly the only winners will be the lawyers. ("Churla", Slashdot member).
Even though I've grown tired of covering Prosper's continual information warfare with its community, the war is spilling onto my blog. If you're unaware (and don't
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| Tehran's Most Valuable Partner: The Role of Germany in the Iranian "Nuclear Crisis" | | 2007-12-14 13:56:00 | | As one of Iran’s most important trading and negotiating partners, Germany plays a significant role in shaping European and international public opinion. Given Berlin’s growing influence in international relations, and its ties with the various stages of negotiations regarding the Iranian nuclear crisis, the world has become accustomed to adding Germany to the five permanent members of the Security Council in determining the process and fate of the Iranian nuclear case.Germany, under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel, is in alliance with the United States to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But it differs on the methods. While Washington places “all options on the table,” Berlin excludes a military solution to protect its interests in Iran.The Iranian-German relations are some of the oldest bilateral relations in modern history. Riza Pahlavi leaned toward Nazi Germany in WW II, and even the name change of his country from Persia to Iran (meaning the country | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| Ahmadineyad: informe estadounidense es un golpe para quienes mienten sobre el programa nuclear iraní | | 2007-12-06 22:47:00 | | El mandatario de Irán señaló que el informe publicado el lunes por los servicios de inteligencia estadounidenses, que revela que Irán no produce energía nuclear con fines militares desde 2003, acaba con las esperanzas de las grandes potencias para continuar acusando a Teherán de querer producir armamento nuclear, con el objetivo de imponer nuevas sanciones contra el país persa y obligarlo así a que abandone su programa civil de enriquecimiento de uranio.El presidente iraní Mahmud Ahmadineyad, aseguró este miércoles que el reciente informe de los servicios de inteligencia estadounidenses, que asegura que Irán abandonó en 2003 su programa nuclear militar, ha sido un golpe para quienes han difundido "mentiras" sobre la naturaleza del programa nuclear de su país.En un discurso público en la provincia de Ilam (noroeste), Ahmadineyad consideró que el documento de la inteligencia de EEUU, difundido el lunes, confirma que Irán no utiliza su programa de enriquecimiento de uranio con fines bélicos, ni mucho menos pretende elaborar una bomba atómica."Los servicios secretos de EEUU han anunciado sin rodeos que el pueblo iraní transita por el camino correcto en lo que al tema nuclear se refiere", expresó el mandatario iraní al tiempo que aseguró que el texto acaba con las esperanzas de las grandes potencias como EEUU, la Unión Europea, Reino Unido e Israel, a quienes considera sus enemigos, para continuar acusando a Teherán de querer producir armamento nuclear con el objetivo de que el país persa abandone su programa civil de enriquecimiento de uranio."Este informe ha sido la bala que ha rematado todos los anhelos de los enemigos", destacó. "Ha sido este informe el tiro de gracia contra aquellos que durante varios años han viciado el clima con sus amenazas y embustes sobre una pretendida búsqueda de la bomba atómica por parte de Teherán", añadió.Un documento publicado el lunes y aprobado por las 16 agencias estadounidenses de inteligencia estima | | By: Here is Nutopia | | |
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| Contending with Iran's Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities | | 2007-12-05 09:14:13 | | My thoughts on the new Iran NIE, as they appear in today's San Francisco Chronicle: This week, the U.S. intelligence community released to Capitol Hill the unclassified key judgments of its latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear intentions and capabilities. The new estimate opens with the startling judgment that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program in the fall of 2003, which is sure to dominate the discourse to follow. It shouldn't. The estimate's more significant conclusion...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| Iran's Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities | | 2007-12-03 15:31:14 | | Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released the unclassified key judgments of a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran’s nuclear intentions and capabilities . The new NIE updates the intelligence community’s understanding of Iran’s capabilities since its 2005 assessment on Iran, and begins with the startling judgment that “we judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.” The NIE acknowledges...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| MIDDLE EAST: Nuclear energy threat to safety | | 2007-11-22 10:39:42 | | The development of nuclear technology in the Middle East could pose a risk to public safety, an international energy expert said yesterday. UK-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for...
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| EUROASIA: First Turkish nuclear power plant to be constructed | | 2007-11-18 09:22:40 | | The Turkish Parliament unanimously approved a bill intended to set up the legal framework for the country’s first nuclear power plant, despite opposition from environmental groups, TurkishPress.com...
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| Nuclear Iran: Israel And The World Awaits | | 2007-11-10 06:09:00 | | It's not really a difficult decision to make, when faced with the prospect of a nuclear armed Iran. Israel, who stands at the forefront of 'concerned countries' would be the first to go, followed closely by European nations, such as France, England, The Dutch and perhaps Spain. All of which either currently support, or were supporting America's War on Terror. Ahmadinejad has openly called for the destruction of Israel, and according to a report by Maj. Gen. Yossi Baidatz, head of research for military intelligence in Israel, that could become a reality by the end of 2009.Add to the possibility, that Ahmadinejad has recently released an official statement that not only have the built the 3,000 centrifuges needed for enriching uranium, but they are now "operational." An international coalition is necessary, before large sections of the planet start becoming glassy parking lots. Thank you Russia/Putin for helping them to build those in the first place.Believe it or not, FRANCE has fin | | By: Hoopy Frood Dude | | |
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| Additional nuclear sites in Syria? | | 2007-10-25 16:44:08 | | While proof of a Syrian nuclear site is trickling down, including in this Washington Post article , the question now remains: what exactly do we know about the Syrian nuclear program? Last night, The Croissant ran a story from the Kuwaiti Al Seyassah about potential new secret nuclear sites in Syria. Here is an excerpt: Western sources think that Syrian intelligence provided some information on the facility bombed on September 6 by the Israeli air force in order to focus the attention just on this...(read more) | | By: An American Warning | | |
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| On Nuclear Power Plant | | 2007-10-21 09:24:49 | | There are heated debates again on the revival of the government plan to build the first nuclear power plant ever in Indonesia, which will reside in the northern part of Jepara Regency, Central Java.
I might be wrong, but to me it's more of a debate between those who dare to embrace the technology...
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