Archive for April 12th, 2009

Sowell's Law Blog: Nuclear Nuts

A few weeks ago I crossed the internet path of one Rod Adams, a self-proclaimed “knowledgeable nuke” and one who fervently believes that nuclear energy is “safe, reliable, and affordable, a huge boon to mankind.” Mr. Adams is an advocate for very small …. Also, the other, non-plutonium portion of spent nuclear fuel can be used to deadly effect in a dirty bomb, in which conventional explosives are wrapped in nuclear fuel and exploded. The resulting spread of toxic

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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Q&A: Iran and the nuclear issue..

On offer is recognition of Iran’s right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and the treatment of Iran in “the same manner” as other states under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran would get help with developing

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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

History from the Memory Hole

Ford signs a presidential directive giving the Iranian government the opportunity to purchase a US-built nuclear reprocessing facility for extracting plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. Iran, with support from the US, wants to develop

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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

The French Nuclear Industry Is Bad Enough in France; Let’s Not

However, fewer than 20 French reactors use MOX fuel, which in turn can handle only minimal proportions of plutonium, and the waste these reactors produce cannot be reprocessed. In fact, there is no French love affair with nuclear energy , but rather a deep mistrust of this most secretive of industries. Some of this suspicion dates to the Chernobyl accident in 1986, when a French government spokesman assured the population that the radioactive cloud from the Ukrainian

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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Uskowi on Iran: Iran Producing Fuel for Arak’s Heavy Water Reactor

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today inaugurated a new nuclear facility producing reactor fuel (pellets of uranium oxide ore or UO2) for the heavy-water and plutonium production reactor under construction in Arak.

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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Khaleej Times Online - Iran president says ready for nuclear talks

Ahmadinejad also said the country has inaugurated a new facility producing uranium fuel for a heavy-water nuclear reactor that is under construction in the town of Arak and is expected to be completed in 2009 or 2010. The West fears that Iran could eventually reprocess spent fuel from the heavy-water reactor to produce plutonium for a warhead. Iran has been building the 40-megawatt hard-water reactor in the central town of Arak for the past four years.

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Iran president says ready for nuclear talks

The West fears that Iran cold eventually reprocess spent fuel from the heavy-water reactor to produce plutonium for a warhead. Iran has been building the 40-megawatt hard-water reactor in the central town of Arak for the past four years

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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

[VOA标准英语] Iranian President Inaugurates New Nuclear Facility

Producing fuel for the heavy water reactor could lead Iran to the capability to make plutonium, which can be used in a nuclear warhead. Fears about Iran’s nuclear intentions have been heightened by its refusal to allow inspectors from

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Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Evil Conservative Radio: Head in the Sand: Washington Struggling

economic incentives for negotiations on uranium enrichment, he inaugurated a plant for producing fuel rods for Iran’s heavy water plant in Arak and its nuclear reactor in Bushehr, thereby reducing the Islamic Republic’s fuel dependence Russia which built the reactor. According to Israeli and Western intelligence sources, this would also put the Arak heavy plant on the fast track for the manufacture of plutonium, alongside the weapons-grade enrichment of uranium.

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