Posted on 02/21/2010 3:24:50 PM PST by hennie pennie
TORONTO - There are still no leads in the case of an eastern Ontario scientist who disappeared without a trace last month, leaving his colleagues mystified. Lachlan Cranswick hasn't been seen since Jan. 18, when he left work at the National Research Council's Canadian Neutron Beam Centre in Chalk River, northwest of Ottawa.
His nearby Deep River house was reportedly left unlocked and his car was in the garage. His wallet, keys and passport have all been accounted for......
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.canadaeast.com ...
Iran said Saturday it has dismantled several U.S.-backed opposition networks that were gathering information on nuclear scientists and finding ways to circumvent controls on the Internet meant to deprive the opposition of its most.......
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Additional attempted espionage charge filed for Md. scientist - 03/18/2010
A Maryland rocket scientist has been charged with a third count of attempted espionage ...... Nozette was taken into custody in October after federal authorities say he accepted $11,000 from an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer in return for classified information on U.S. satellite systems and nuclear weaponry.......
Body found in Bluffers Park
2010/03/16 21:08:00
Madeleine White Staff Reporter
Police are investigating after the body of a 42-year-old man was found in Bluffers Park Tuesday afternoon... the body had been on the bluffs for longer than a day.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/780955--body-found-in-bluffers-park
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The body was discovered 3 days ago on Tuesday, with an autopsy scheduled the following day; meantime, there has been NO mention anywhere else about this. They apparently do know the identity of the body, or elsewise they could not ever state that he is 42 years old.
I am curious as to whether LC may have belonged to the Bluffers Park Yacht Club, or if he had his sailboat stored in the Bluffers Park Marina for the winter?
I've not been able to locate an online list of the members of the club, and don't even know if LC owned his own boat. And I have no idea what is the birthdate of LC, so I don't know if he is now 42, as opposed to in January when he went missing and was always described in the MSM as 41 years old.
http://www.missing-u.ca/MPDetail.aspx?PersonID=847
Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1968
September 29, 1968 means that he is currently 41 years and approximately 5.5 months of age.
I wonder if it is HE, whose body was recovered from the bluffs of Bluffers Park and who LEOs have not named but state is a 42 year old man?
Police are investigating after a man's body was found at Bluffers Park Tuesday, March 16, afternoon.Emergency crews were called to the foot of Brimley Road at 1:50 p.m."A body was apparently in the water," said Capt. David Eckerman of Toronto Fire Services. "It's been removed from the water."Detectives from 43 Division are investigating.
http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/651617--man-s-body-found-in-water-off-bluffers-park
Canada's nuclear regulator is changing the way it tracks lost, stolen and missing nuclear devices following a pointed inquiry about inconsistent reporting from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Newly disclosed internal e-mails show the Vienna-based agency contacted officials in Ottawa after a Canadian Press investigation raised serious questions in July about how closely the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission monitors devices that could be used in a crude "dirty bomb."
Commission records revealed that dozens of radioactive tools - from an industrial gauge in Red Deer, Alta., to a device used for molecular separation in Montreal - had gone missing in the last five years.
Reports of losses or thefts of radioactive tools are supposed to be reported to the commission's nuclear security division which, in turn, sends case information to the international agency's Illicit Trafficking Database, an inventory compiled with input from dozens of participating countries.
Established in 1995, the database is intended to be an authoritative global source of information on the unauthorized acquisition, use and disposal of nuclear and other radioactive material, including accidental losses.
Experts warn that terrorists could detonate a radioactive tool used in research or industry with conventional explosives, spreading contamination and sowing panic in city streets. Or an unshielded device could simply be left in a public area, such as a park or airport, subjecting passersby to harmful radiation.
After reading a media account of the wayward devices flagged by The Canadian Press, an official with the International Atomic Energy Agency sent an e-mail July 4 to John O'Dacre, a senior security adviser at the Canadian commission, wondering why the IAEA database contained no details of six incidents mentioned in the article.
"Is this report accurate?" says the message, one of several recently obtained under the Access to Information Act.
"Please advise."
Later that day, O'Dacre sent a note to Gerry Frappier of the commission's directorate of security and safeguards, asking whether an updated list of missing devices could be forwarded to the IAEA "in case some of these incidents were not previously reported."
Frappier replied that he first wanted to see any discrepancies.
"We will then want to review what we are going to say to the IAEA," Frappier wrote. "Also I would like to better understand the criteria for sending an event to the IAEA and what the agreement with them actually says."
Eight days later, the international agency wrote O'Dacre again to see if he was having "any luck" uncovering details.
"We are carrying out an in-depth review," O'Dacre replied, adding the commission "missed filing some incident reports. We are now assuring ourselves that when we provide you the additional information that it is accurate."
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Pundita
US foreign policy for the 21st Century
Tuesday, October 6
http://pundita.blogspot.com/2009/10/high-intrigue-and-irans-nuclear-weapons.html
High intrigue and Iran's nuclear weapons program: The case of the semi-missing nuke technicians ..... "Torn Curtain" was the Cold War in startling Hitchcock style, and now we have the New Cold War in high tension drama in the case of 'missing' ex-Soviet nuke techs.....
.....Bibi Netanyahu traveled quietly to Moscow recently in order to confront the Russians with the names of four ex-Soviet nuke technicians that Israeli intelligence asserts are working with Tehran to engineer their centrifuges and produce highly enriched uranium in mass production for bomb-making.....
posted by Pundita : 10/06/2009 12:44:00 PM
CBC.ca News - Chalk River physicist gone without a trace http://www.cbc.ca/m/rich/news/story/2010/03/19/f-cranswick-chalk-river-missing.html
.......The feeling among fellow curlers is that the Ottawa River, on which the town of Deep River is located, will offer some clues once spring arrives.
"If he's in the river, it will be May or June before he's found, but he will be found, because there's heavy boating use in the Ottawa River around here," said Harrison. "The river is a mile wide here, and there isn't much current, so I don't think he will go too far."
While there is no explanation for Cranswick's disappearance, friends say the outcome is certain.
"If he was alive, he would have never disappeared in the first place," said Harrison. "I expect to see his body, but I don't expect to see him alive."
There was also a very small story in the Canadian MSM about a missing male's remains being identified, I don't remember his name, but his family asked for total privacy. I'm unsure where his body was located, and can't find the small article.
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MARCH 23, 2010
Gatineau police find body in Ottawa River
MARCH 23, 2010
OTTAWA - Gatineau police are investigating after a body was found floating in the Ottawa River Monday afternoon. The body was found close to where the Ottawa meets the Gatineau River, at about 5 p.m. Police said the body had no identification on it and it will take time to identify. They were able to say only that the person was male. An autopsy will be performed in Montreal and police will work their way through missing persons reports.
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MARCH 20, 2010
OPP probe body in water
http://www.windsorstar.com/news/probe+body+water/2706970/story.html
BY STAR STAFF, THE WINDSOR STAR
MARCH 20, 2010 12:02 PM
Ontario Provincial Police are investigating Saturday morning after a body was found in the water.
Officers are launching a search with assistance from the Coast Guard's Trenton Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, who've dispatched a boat to the scene.
It's unclear where in the water the body was found.
The investigation continues. More to come.
"You expect me to talk, Goldfinger?"
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
From Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage
The Canadian towns of Chalk River and Deep River are in the northern region of the Ottawa Valley, nestled between Algonquin Park to the west, and the Ottawa River to the east.
Deep River is a small community that boasts an network of hiking, biking, and skiing trails. Chalk River is the location of the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited laboratories.
Lachlan Cranswick, 41, was a physicist who worked at the laboratories. On Jan. 18, he finished work and went to his home in Deep River. At some point that evening or the next day, he took the garbage out, and vanished. His car was left in the garage along with his skis and snowshoes, the door to his house was.....
"You expect me to talk, Goldfinger?"
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."
From Lachlan Cranswick's Personal Homepage
The Canadian towns of Chalk River and Deep River are in the northern region of the Ottawa Valley, nestled between Algonquin Park to the west, and the Ottawa River to the east.
Deep River is a small community that boasts an network of hiking, biking, and skiing trails. Chalk River is the location of the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited laboratories.
Lachlan Cranswick, 41, was a physicist who worked at the laboratories. On Jan. 18, he finished work and went to his home in Deep River. At some point that evening or the next day, he took the garbage out, and vanished. His car was left in the garage along with his skis and snowshoes, the door to his house was.....
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics [Requires Real Player].
As the son of a physicist, Auden had an enduring interest in science and the moral issues surrounding it. This recording comes from the 1965 Edinburgh International Festival.
So the shared interest of an "feeling" intellectual in a cold scientific shell
http://archives.cbc.ca/science_technology/energy_production/clips/909/
But writers often confuse their fears with facts. However financial misdeeds were even pointed at back then. Again Government/politics and science; not a good mix as Lachlan pointed out under his writings on "nanotechnology" in particular and the danger it could pose in the future.
Or in a cave with Osama...
Thanks for sharing - Auden’s a favorite poet of mine.
The above was Lachlan Cranswick's curling schedule at the club.
18 January 2010 reported "thought to be the 'Missing' date". Source.
CRANSWICK, a curling enthusiast, was scheduled to take the next few days off work. When he failed to show up for a game with the local curling club and did not return to work, his friends notified authorities of his disappearance on January 24.
Jan 21, Jan 28 - etc was the B1 team Play per the schedule at the club.
Probably someone has figured out the dates better than I but confusing when you really check the schedule. I believe the brother of the missing man was concerned over dates in regard to police notification of "when friends noticed" the brother was missing.
I still believe he was too sensitive to his literary side (via his interests per website) not to leave a note to a grieving family member for closure.
Wikipedia Entry for W.H. Auden:
".....In 1951, shortly before the two British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean fled to the USSR, Burgess attempted to phone Auden to arrange a vacation visit to Ischia that he had earlier discussed with Auden; Auden never returned the call and had no further contact with either spy, but a media frenzy ensued in which his name was mistakenly associated with their escape. The frenzy was repeated when the MI5 documents on the incident were released in 2007.....
Would their involvement necessarily be announced in the MSM?? Particularly when OBVIOUSLY so little attention has been paid to this disappearance?
"Why haven't the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) been brought in to the investigation?"
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Has the FBI Infiltrated the Tea Parties?
http://www.infowars.com/has-the-fbi-infiltrated-the-tea-parties/
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Katz Says:
March 26th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
"If somebody disappears without a trace could the alphabet police have something to do with it?
"A nuclear physicist named Lachlan Cranswick disappeared in Canada in January 2010 and left no clues.
"Why haven't the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) been brought in to the investigation? Do you also wonder if there's foul play?
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/2492/a-primer-on-irans-medical-reactor
A Primer on Iran's Medical Reactor Plans
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/2492/a-primer-on-irans-medical-reactor
posted Sunday October 4, 2009 under iran, nuclear-fuel-cycle
A swimming pool-type reactor similar to the TRR in Iran whose fuel is apparently the subject of a deal between Iran and the P5+1. The eerie blue light is Cherenkov radiation given off as subatomic particles streak through the surrounding water. ( Techno-Wonk Alert: There are a lot of numbers in this post so if you are not into that, skip to the Summary and Discussion section.)
Friday's apparent agreement to send Iranian LEU out of the country for further enrichment, so that it can be used to produce medical isotopes in the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR), will undoubtedly cause a lot of people to want to know more about the production of medical isotopes. It certainly made me want to know more. Fortunately, a great deal of information about Iran's plans for isotope production can be gleaned from a paper in Annals of Nuclear Energy (vol. 30, pp. 883-895, 2003) but Sayareh, Ghannadi Maragheh, and Shamsaie; three researchers at Amir Kabir Technical University and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Most importantly, they are planning on producing 20 Curies (Ci) of Molybdenum 99 (99Mo) every other week. This is about half their diagnostic requirements for 99Mo, which they currently import. Currently, 95% of the world's 99Mo supply is produced in six reactors around the world. As of 2006, the reactors in Canada (which produces 40% of the world's needs), the Netherlands, Brussels, France, Germany, and South Africa used weapons grade uranium as the target . That means that sheets of 90+% Uranium 235 are inserted into the high neutron densities found inside these reactors for very brief periods of time. The US supplies about 25 kg of weapons grade uranium each year to Canada's NRU reactor alone. This HEU is inserted into the reactor for a short time, just long enough to "burn up" about 5% of the uranium 235. The irradiated fuel is removed and the molybdenum is extracted.........
Here is a quote from one of the Ebay-Canada forums:
Harper's Humiliating Muzzle on Scientists in Community General and Help Boards in eBay Canada Discussion Boards
http://forums.ebay.ca/thread.jspa?threadID=600035463&rw=true&print=true
"So do you think Harper was behind the disappearance of Lachlan Cranswick?
"He was apparently a brilliant scientist at the Chalk River nuclear reactor. His sudden and mysterious disappearance is very puzzling. Do you think he knew something Toby and met with foul play?
UN Sanctions Hit HospitalsIran Running Out of Life-Saving Isotopes
By Thomas Erdbrink in Tehran
The research reactor in Tehran is now used exclusively for isotope production. Trade sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are affecting treatment of people suffering from heart and kidney disease and various cancers. Some 850,000 patients are at risk because the country is running out of radioactive isotopes essential to radiotherapy.Ruhollah Solook, 78, was dying before a donated kidney and complex radiotherapy saved his life.
Recovering in an isolation room in Tehran's oldest hospital, he expressed his joy in a telephone interview. "They saved my life already. I hope they will be able to cure me entirely now." But Solook's treatment has become a race against time, as has that of 850,000 other Iranians suffering from heart and kidney disease and various cancers. Sometime after March 2010, the country will run out of technetium-99, a radioisotope crucial to the treatment of these diseases.
Technetium-99 is currently produced locally in Iran."We recommend treatment with these products to hundreds of patients every month in our hospital alone," said Dr. Gholamreza Pourmand, Solook's physician. Technetium-99 is essential to radiotherapy, Pourmand said: "If we cannot help these people, some will die. It's as simple as that."
Rare and Precious
The impending shortage of technetium-99 is caused by the controversy surrounding the Iranian nuclear program. The sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, aimed at moving Iran to halt its uranium enrichment program, are supposed to leave medical practice unaffected. In reality, however, Iran has become unable to procure a wide range of medical products. Body scanners cannot be imported from the US or the EU, since parts in these machines could also be useful to Iran's nuclear program.
An embargo on medical isotopes was introduced in 2007, in defiance of the medical exception clause touted as part of the trade sanctions, Iranian leaders said. Isotopes are a rare commodity produced at only five sites worldwide. One of these, the High Flux Reactor in the Dutch town of Petten, currently accounts for 30 to 40 percent of worldwide production, but it is scheduled for retirement soon. Apart from the UN sanctions, so many restrictions -- particularly American -- on trade with Iran exist, that in practice nobody is willing to supply Iran with medical isotopes any longer. Out of dire necessity, Iran now uses its 41-year-old research reactor in Tehran -- originally constructed by the US -- exclusively for isotope production, a job which used to take only a day a week. However, the reactor's fuel, provided by Argentina in 1993, is quickly running out, the scientists said.
'We Will Make Our Own'
Iranian leaders, including President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, say that Iran might produce new fuel itself, which would prove a sensitive issue. Iran would need to enrich uranium......
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