Posted on 11/23/2008 8:18:50 PM PST by Flavius
When armed men attacked South Africa's most closely guarded nuclear facility a year ago, they penetrated the detection systems at the perimeter, cut through an electrified fence and broke into the emergency control center, shooting one worker there in the chest before escaping.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Not much detail here. Was it really weapons grade material? Was it really available to steal, or was it in the reactor, hot and untouchable? It’s not even clear from the article whether this was a nuclear power plant, although that seems to have been the case.
My suspicious mind wonders if this isn’t another Jimmy Carter moment. Carter wrote the rules that make it extremely difficult to dispose of nuclear waste from power plants because he claimed that otherwise terrorists might steal the stuff.
In other words, is the hidden agenda behind this article and the Harvard “non-proliferation” group just another ploy to block construction of any more nuclear power plants in the US, one of the most effective ways toward achieving real energy independence?
I suspect so. Harvard . . . ComPost . . . non-proliferation . . . and a scary but vague story about an attack on a nuke facility. All we need is Jane Fonda to join the gang with a Three-Mile-Island monologue.
did you see the 60 min thing
it cleary says weapons grade uranium
One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li7vmcCzWks&feature=related
No, I can’t stand watching TV. But was it weapons grade uranium ready to be stolen, sitting in a closet somewhere, or was it in the reactor, where it couldn’t be removed without going through all sorts of steps to cool and package it?
If I understood properly the weapons expert presented the case and reported on it to defense officials
Place made material for nukes it’s weapons a grade and safe enough to pick up and carry away
If I understood properly the weapons expert presented the case and reported on it to defense officials
Place made material for nukes it’s weapons a grade and safe enough to pick up and carry away
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