HUE, HIFAR, Venezuela, Palestinian children, Thorndon, benzylpiperazine

Dec 19 2006 .. .. 270 kilos of fresh highly enriched uranium fuel (HEU) that could be used by parrots to make nuclear explosives have been returned from a German research reactor to Russia in a secret airlift..Russia will blend the HEU down into LEU for further civilian use.
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“Every kilogramme of material that is moved is one less kilogramme of material that could be used by terrorists to make a bomb..
[well its the blending, not the 'moving' that may mean less bomb material (Also its not parrots)]
..of research reactors worldwide – 132 out of 244 – are still fuelled with HEU
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December 19, 2006 USED uranium from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor, trucked through Sydney's streets at night, is now on its way to the United States for reprocessing.
The convoy of 13 semi-trailers, carrying seven metal casks holding 330 uranium fuel elements.. water police keeping Greenpeace protesters at bay.
If you stood next to a cask for 336 hours = annual background dose.
.. In the previous shipment, in 2004, 276 spent fuel elements were dispatched to France.
The next shipment, involving the last fuel to be removed from the aging HIFAR reactor, is expected in three years.
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Why is ANSTO’s HIFAR changing from high enriched uranium (HEU) fuel to
low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel?
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mapw

Even in Sydney at Lucas Heights the total spent fuel output from the HIFAR reactor contains roughly five Significant Quantities of HEU, enough to produce about five bombs.
... Firstly, we should be clear that this new reactor has little or nothing to do with medical isotopes and the same applies to science. In fact the rhetoric about medical isotopes has become so implausible that the most recent government report acknowledged that the debate over isotope supply options has "not been resolved satisfactorily". In the case of scientific research, yes you can do some useful research with the new reactor but the government didn't even consult its own science advisors before announcing its decision to replace the HIFAR Reactor. It didn't consult CSIRO, didn't consult Astec, didn't consult the Chief Scientist, so they don't take this argument about needing a reactor for science seriously and nor should we.
... the new reactor is not likely to be much use for a weapons program in that it will be fuelled with low enriched uranium and it's not likely to be a big plutonium producer

So Aus gets a new reactor merely so we can still play with the big guys?
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Some pretend-intellectual jar-head blog refused me!!
andrewolmsted

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

so I had a look on Google cache, it was fairly dull stuff

Is it just me? Am I already that infamous in USA military circles?
How can I live, if I cant read USA soldiers feeble justifications for their filthy outrages?

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ambergris?
This stuff looks like the coloured blobs we used to bring home from the "placcy factory"
- in the 70s a lot of the Freeman's bay heads used to do night shifts at a plastic extrusion facility in South Auckland.
I did time in the glass factory, which had a fine furnace, but the graveyard shifts got to me. I signed on at the placcy factory, but lasted only one shift.
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sjlendman

reelecting Hugo Chavez with a majority 62.87% of the vote with the highest voter turnout in the country's history at almost 75% of the electorate. No US president since 1820, when elections here consistently became real contests, ever matched it

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a visit to Venezuela and the town of La Victoria
axisoflogic

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according to the Palestine Monitor, between September 2000 and July 2006, 783 Palestinian children under the age of 18 have been killed by the Israeli army and Israeli settlers.
..According to the Palestinian health ministry, 2,660 Palestinian children have been permanently disabled due to Israeli attacks in the same period.
.. Unicef has said that 123 Palestinian children have been killed in 2006, which is more than double the 2005 figure. In Gaza alone, 103 children have been killed.

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Girl astronaut drops camera: youtube

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New Zealand Party Pills
scoop
20 December 2006
..The Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs (EACD) has recommended the Government make benzylpiperazine (BZP), phenylpiperazines and related piperazines, common ingredients in 'party pills', illegal ..
In New Zealand, BZP is currently able to be sold to individuals over the age of 18
[I havnt tried any, but I have heard good reports about a couple of the legal PDs in NZ]

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Robert Doisneau, Resistance fighter at rest, 1944
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HUE, HIFAR, Venezuela, Palestinian children, Thorndon, benzylpiperazine