Archive for June 16th, 2008

US Lawmakers Criticize Bush Administration Over Intelligence on Syria

US legislators of both political parties are criticizing the Bush administration for only recently disclosing intelligence it possessed about an alleged secret Syrian nuclear reactor that Israel bombed last year.

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Monday, June 16th, 2008

1115: For the 50000th time JUST RECYCLE THE STUFF!

I’ve dealt before with the problems faced by someone who wants to steal plutonium from a processing facility. Plutonium, by itself, isn’t a problem in the right kind of nuclear reactor; it could be left in the fuel rods.

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Monday, June 16th, 2008

Yucca Mountain: A Brief History in Layman’s Terms

At its simplest, a nuclear reactor is nothing more than a mass of Uranium 235 (U235) or Plutonium 239 (PU239) atoms held in a controlled environment. As the atoms are gradually split, energy is released. That energy, in the form of heat

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Monday, June 16th, 2008

Sometimes Ignorance Is Bliss

The plutonium or implosion bomb is harder to make. First one needs plutonium. The nice thing about plutonium is that it is made automatically in any nuclear reactor which contains slugs of the common uranium isotope, U-238.

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Monday, June 16th, 2008