http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/uranium/ en-us Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:38:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129774/posts (IsraelNN.com) United Nations investigators have found traces of uranium contamination at the site of an Israeli air strike in Syria, diplomats told Reuters and German media sources on Monday. The report is the first sign of a “smoking gun” proving that Syria was in fact building a secret nuclear reactor on the site, as Israel and the United States have insisted. The diplomats said the traces of uranium were first found in June. What has been found so far is not conclusive evidence of nuclear activity, but “raises questions,” they said. Officials in the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)... arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129774/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:38:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129563/posts IAEA finds uranium traces at Syrian site: diplomats Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:05pm GMT By Mark Heinrich VIENNA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators have found traces of uranium at a Syrian site Washington says was a secret nuclear reactor almost built before Israel bombed the target last year, diplomats said on Monday. They said the minute uranium particles turned up in some environmental swipe samples U.N. inspectors took at the site in a visit last June. They said the finding was not enough to draw conclusions but raised concerns requiring further clarification. The International Atomic Energy Agency and Syria had no... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129563/posts#comment Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:13:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127547/posts The state Coal and Energy Commission is expected to order a study of uranium mining in Virginia. Uranium mining has been banned in Virginia since the 1980s. A company that owns a massive uranium deposit in Pittsylvania estimated to be worth $10 billion has repeatedly asked for a study to see if the element could be mined safely. A legislative committee this winter rejected a scientific study of uranium mining by the National Academy of Sciences amid protests from environmentalists and some Southside residents who feared it would lead to ending the 25-year moratorium. The commission that meets Thursday to... WAVY- TV 10 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127547/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 03:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2122293/posts America seems to be asleep at the wheel once again: Brazil and Iran agree to take relationship to a new level. Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, "Iran affords South America major priority in its foreign policy and Brazil enjoys a special position in this respect.” While Brazil's counterpart, Mr. Amorim, said their meeting was a "turning point" that would lead to a new level of cooperation when the two President's meet in Tehran. Brazil's "special position" is in two areas: oil, and uranium. Brazil's decision to turn down an OPEC invitation in September was good. But with the price... Stealthy News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2122293/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 03:44:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122510/posts MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122510/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:23:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891839/posts Since the Saddam Hussein statues were torn down around Iraq, many Israelis have stopped carrying their gas masks despite almost daily exhortations by defense minister Shaul Mofaz to keep them close and not dismantle their sealed rooms since the danger is not over. His concern has draw sneers from some army veterans and pundits, making him the butt of jokes about “overreaction”. Some information about the sinister tools of death that are believed cached in remote al Qaim up against the Syrian border might lead to a better appreciation of the peril. However, Israeli officials are keeping what is known... DEBKA.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/891839/posts#comment Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:00:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114033/posts MAYBE BUSH IS NOT SUCH A BAD GUY AFTERALL. TOO BAD THE NEWS PEOPLE DON'T TELL THE TRUTH. This has been flying under the radar. Read the MSNBC article and check the truthorfiction.com site. The TorF version is shown below. This event is factual. I have an increased respect for President Bush. He has taken the heat of being called a liar and a war monger for 5 years while he kept his silence to protect the people of the world. This is truly a display of selfless honor. On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story... Truth or Fiction .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114033/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:48:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083223/posts Iran has substantially improved the efficiency of its centrifuges that produce enriched uranium, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday, indicating that the nation has overcome some of the technical challenges that had plagued its enrichment program. In a six-page report, the agency charged the Iranians with continuing to stonewall about what some Western governments suspected was Iran's past research on designing a nuclear weapon. The agency acknowledged that it had failed "to make any substantial progress" in its investigation. "We seem to be at a dead end," said a senior official with links to the agency. "We would describe... iht http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2083223/posts#comment Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:27:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063067/posts Report shows items misidentified, oven temperature too high - OAK RIDGE - A federal spokesman confirmed that Oak Ridge workers overcooked some nuclear warhead components during a drying process to such an extent that the parts could no longer be "used as intended." Beyond that, the government isn't saying much.The incident at the Y-12 National Security Complex was revealed in a June 20 report by staff of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.The timing was about a month after the Oak Ridge plant received approval to restart production work on W76 warheads, which had been delayed for more than a... Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063067/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:10:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051663/posts Amid the rolling hills and verdant pastures of south central Virginia an unlikely new front in the battle over nuclear energy is opening up. How it is decided will tell us a lot about whether this country is willing to get serious about addressing its energy needs. In Pittsylvania County, just north of the North Carolina border, the largest undeveloped uranium deposit in the United States -- and the seventh largest in the world, according to industry monitor UX Consulting -- sits on land owned by neighbors Henry Bowen and Walter Coles. Large uranium deposits close to the surface are... THE WALL STREET JOURNAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051663/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051629/posts via translation - ALERT - Nuclear: Iran has 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran had 5,000 to 6,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment activities, confirming that the Islamic Republic has expanded its controversial nuclear programme, reported state radio. AFP via translation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051629/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050425/posts Ayatollah Khomeini's heirs are breathing new life into the Islamic revolution in the hope of transforming Iran into a regional power. The Iranian revolution can only point to a single achievement in the Arab world: Hizbullah and its leader Hassan Nasrallah are keeping revolutionary fervor alive in Lebanon. This base of exported revolution is central to Iran's political-diplomatic efforts to achieve a higher status in the region and in the world. Two additional foundations of Iranian power must be added: * The Iranian nuclear program, complete with delivery systems capable of reaching targets in the Middle East and Europe. *... Jerusalem Center for Public affairs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050425/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:30:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048899/posts DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Operational Brimstone, starting Monday, July 21, aimed at giving military teeth to the two-week ultimatum the six world powers gave Iran in Geneva Saturday to accept the suspension of uranium enrichment or face harsh sanctions and isolation. The penalty of withholding refined oil products from Iran would be exercised by means of a partial international naval blockade of its Gulf ports. Taking part in the 10-day exercise in the Atlantic Ocean are more than a dozen ships, including the US carrier strike group Theodore Roosevelt and expeditionary strike group Iwo Jima; the French submarine Amethyste,... Debka.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048899/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:11:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048203/posts Iran was given a fortnight to agree to freeze its uranium enrichment programme yesterday or face further international isolation. After a day of inconclusive talks in Geneva, a six-nation negotiating team warned the Iranian delegation that it had run out of patience and demanded a 'yes or no' answer to a proposal it put forward five weeks ago. Gaurdian UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048203/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:21:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046098/posts Does anyone have any information of 500 tons of yellowcake being sent to Canada from Iraq? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046098/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:39:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042154/posts Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn't fit the media's neat story line that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042154/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:04:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042113/posts WASHINGTON, July 7, 2008 – Defense personnel have completed the transfer of 550 metric tons of Iraqi uranium ore to Canada, Defense officials said here today. The Iraqi government asked the United States to help transfer the yellowcake -- as the ore is known -- from Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center near Baghdad to its buyer in Canada, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said today. The military dubbed the movement Operation McCall, and it ended July 5. DoD’s portion of the operation involved the transfer of the ore. Yellowcake is a uranium ore that can be processed to become nuclear fuel. State... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042113/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:54:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041749/posts 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium worth millions of dollars were shipped out of Iraq to Canada. The uranium was transported in 37 military flights in 3,500 secure barrels. Though the yellowcake had been in Iraq for some time and had been discovered by the United Nations inspectors after the first Gulf War in during the Senior President Bush’s presidency the material has finally been removed. This is a fact the Democrats don’t want publicized and the MSM will oblige. Stuck On Stupid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041749/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:43:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S.... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041598/posts <p>The media have been telling us for years that Saddam had no WMD, so "Bush's War": was based on a "lie." And those who believed Saddam did have WMD or WMD programs were delusional or worse.</p> <p>And multiple devices that could be used in a nuclear weapon.</p> American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041598/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:59:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041287/posts Link only http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041287/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 01:00:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089798/posts Large amounts of uranium may have gone missing from a nuclear technology company in Sweden. The American Central Intelligence Agency fears a worst-case scenario where the material has already fallen into terrorist hands, newspaper Expressen reports. "The company (Ranstad Mineral) is a security risk and we have taken the matter to top level to get the Swedes to stop them," a CIA spokesman told the Swedish newspaper. The CIA operative claims to know that the little Swedish company has educated Syrian nuclear physicists in the treatment of uranium. He also has information that a Swedish consultancy has sold nuclear equipment... Aftenposten http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1089798/posts#comment Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021014/posts NEW DELHI: Reiterating their total opposition to the India-U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation, the Left parties on Friday said their discussions with the government were still going on. “At the last meeting of the UPA-Left joint committee on the nuclear deal, we were told that there is a shortage of uranium and reactors were working at 50 per cent of their level of production,” Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters here. The next meeting of the committee on the nuclear deal is scheduled for May 28. “We have not yet completed our discussions with the government... The Hindu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021014/posts#comment Sun, 25 May 2008 14:18:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016970/posts RIYADH (AFP) - The White House announced major new cooperation agreements with Saudi Arabia on Friday as US President George W. Bush made his second visit to the oil superpower this year. The agreements cover cooperation on civil nuclear power and protecting the kingdom's oil infrastructure which has come under attack by Islamist militants. "The Saudis bear a special responsibility for protecting key energy facilities of global importance and the world benefits from their abundant energy supplies," a White House statement said. "Our global economy depends greatly on Saudi Arabian energy. The United States has a keen interest in helping... AFP / Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016970/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 18:02:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012490/posts AREVA, a French-based company, has chosen Bonneville County, Idaho, as the site for its first U.S. uranium enrichment facility. "While we had several attractive sites to choose from, we opted for Idaho Falls, which has strong ties to nuclear energy, and which welcomed AREVA and its proposed enrichment facility to become a new member of its community," said Michael McMurphy, President of Areva Inc. "We look forward to a productive and long-term partnership that will deliver diversity and strength to the regional economy." The $2 billion plant will be built 18 miles west of Idaho Falls, close to the Idaho... localnews8.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012490/posts#comment Wed, 7 May 2008 15:22:06 GMT