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  • Iran exceeds authorised heavy water reserves: IAEA

    11/18/2019 8:20:27 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 10 replies
    AFP on Yahoo! ^ | 11/18/19 | AFP (Vienna)
    Vienna (AFP) - The UN's nuclear watchdog said Monday that Iran's stock of heavy water for reactors has surpassed the limit set under its agreement with world powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that Iran's heavy water production plant was in operation and that its stock of heavy water reserves was 131.5 tonnes, above the 130-tonne limit. In Vienna, an IAEA spokesperson said: "On 17 November, the Agency verified that the Heavy Water Production Plant (HWPP) was in operation and that Iran’s stock of heavy water was 131.5 metric tonnes." Heavy water is not itself radioactive...
  • Report Claims China Knew About Coronavirus a Full Month Before They Admitted It

    03/16/2020 5:38:24 PM PDT · by Steve1999 · 17 replies
    NewsPushed ^ | 03-16-20 | David Lindfield
    A new report claims that the first people infected with the virus took sick more than a month before China ever admitted the virus existed, according to The Western Journal. Based on Chinese government documents to which it had access, the South China Morning Post reported that a 55-year-old in the Hubei province, which contains the city of Wuhan, contracted the disease on Nov. 17.
  • Coronavirus ‘Patient Zero’ May Have Started Pandemic In November or Earlier

    03/16/2020 1:25:34 PM PDT · by McGruff · 91 replies
    CNN ^ | March 16, 2020 | Simon Chandler
    Coronavirus has been with us for longer than you think. According to documents seen by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the Chinese government first detected a case of COVID-19 on Nov. 17. Yet it still hasn’t been able to confirm that this case really is the fabled “Patient Zero.” Officially, the coronavirus didn’t exist until Dec. 31. The new leak of government documents therefore pushes the discovery of COVID-19 back by several weeks. In other words, the first person to have had the coronavirus may have caught it even earlier than November. That;s why people who had pneumonia in...