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