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Canadian Nuke Scientist Vanishes With 'Absolutely No Trace'
FOX NEWS ^ | updated 02/23/10 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 02/23/2010 4:33:49 AM PST by Doogle

A Canadian nuclear scientist who has not been seen for more than a month has simply vanished, leaving "absolutely no trace at all," police say.

Lachlan Cranswick, 41, a physicist from the Chalk River Laboratories nuclear facility in Ottawa, was last seen on Jan. 18, when he left his job and boarded a bus to Deep River, his hometown along the Ottawa River with a population of roughly 4,300.

Later that day, or possibly the next morning, Cranswick took out the garbage -- and the single man described as a meticulous loner has not been seen since.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aecl; aussie; australia; canada; chalkriver; cranswick; deepriver; lachlancranswick; missing; missingchemist; missingphysicist; missingscientist; nuclearphysicist; nukes; ontario; ottawa; oz

1 posted on 02/23/2010 4:33:49 AM PST by Doogle
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To: Doogle

The Iranians must have hit a snag in their nuclear WEAPONS development.
Nobody else in the world is in a position where one person could possilbly make the difference in technical progress.


2 posted on 02/23/2010 4:38:06 AM PST by G Larry (DNC is comprised of REGRESSIVES!)
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To: G Larry

should be interesting


3 posted on 02/23/2010 4:41:22 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Doogle

This violates the laws of physics.


4 posted on 02/23/2010 4:46:20 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

exactly on more ways than one


5 posted on 02/23/2010 4:48:25 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Doogle
People do walk away from their lives. There's no reason a nuclear physicist shouldn't be one of them.
6 posted on 02/23/2010 5:12:17 AM PST by Grut
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To: Grut

Wow. first it’s Boner from Family Ties, now a nuclear scientist. I sense the evil hand of the Iranians at play.


7 posted on 02/23/2010 5:51:08 AM PST by I Buried My Guns
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To: Doogle

Defected?


8 posted on 02/23/2010 5:54:35 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

*shrugging*


9 posted on 02/23/2010 10:08:23 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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