Big deal, the U.N. gets pushed around by Muslim Countries all the time.
nothing will come of this, it is a big waste of money and breath.
The U.N. fears the little ankle biter of Iran.
(CNN) -- International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors arrived in Iran early Sunday for a three-day visit to examine the nation's controversial nuclear program, state media reported.
The six-member delegation, including chief inspector Herman Nackaerts, arrived at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, Press TV reported.
"We are trying... to resolve all the outstanding issues with Iran," Nackaerts told reporters earlier, as he was about to leave Vienna, Austria, according to Press TV. "We are looking forward to the start of a dialogue, a dialogue that is overdue."
A day earlier, Iran's envoy to the energy agency said he was hopeful the trip will "resolve any ambiguity and show (our) transparency and cooperation with the agency."
Sunday, January 29, 2012
U.N. nuclear team arrives in Iran
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
US Denies Role in Iranian Nuclear Scientist's Death
Nothing like sounding a little guilty.
VOA
The United States has denied any role in Wednesday's killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran.
After the State Department initially declined to respond to Iranian charges that the U.S. or Israel was responsible for Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan's assassination, the White House said the United States "had absolutely nothing to do" with the blast that killed Roshan. White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said the U.S. strongly condemns the attack and all acts of violence.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeated the White House denial of any U.S. involvement in the scientist's killing. "I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran," she said.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Iran enriching uranium at new lab
Well Duh!
I don't think the question is if they are gearing towards a bomb anymore, it looks almost obvious.
I think the new question is, are we ready for a true Nuclear Islam?
Yes Pakistan has nukes, but compared to Iran, most of Pakistan is not a Nuclear threat!
But Iran, just a bit; you know.
USA Today
Iran has begun uranium enrichment at a new underground site built to withstand possible airstrikes, a leading hard-line newspaper reported Sunday in another show of defiance against Western pressure to rein in Tehran's nuclear program.
The operations at the bunker-like facility south of Tehran, reported by the Kayhan daily newspaper, are small in comparison to Iran's main enrichment site. But the centrifuges at the underground labs are considered more efficient and are shielded from aerial surveillance and protected against airstrikes by up to 300 feet (90 meters) of mountain rock.
Uranium enrichment is at the core of the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program. The U.S. and its allies fear Iran could use its enrichment facilities to develop high-grade nuclear material for warheads.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Iran Makes Nuclear Fuel Rod, Offers to Restart Talks
More Bullshit from Iran, it makes you wonder what is up with these rejects.
Do they really think that they can take on the United States, in anything?
Our Navy dwarfs theirs buy leaps and bounds, yet they think that buzzing around in speedboats with automatic weapons is a threat to us.
oh you have nuclear know how Iran, So do we...We have the bomb right now!
How about those new Missiles.
I think it is a matter of Napolean syndrome (Small man syndrome)and just flat out being ignorant as ignorant can be, with a healthy dose of arrogance.
Should we have Talks? why not, it can get funny again.
Bloomberg
Iran produced its first nuclear fuel rod, state-run news agencies reported, as the country offered to restart talks with the West on its atomic program.
The domestically made rod was inserted into the core of Tehran’s atomic research reactor after performance tests, the Iranian Students News Agency reported, citing the country’s atomic energy agency. The Tehran reactor produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment, according to Mehr news agency. Nuclear fuel rods contain pellets of enriched uranium that provide fuel for nuclear power plants.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Japan stricken nuke plant leaks radioactive water
Good thing I do not like Sea Food.
Washington post
Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant leaked about 45 tons of highly radioactive water from a purification device over the weekend, its operator said, and some may have drained into the ocean.
The leak is a reminder of the difficulties facing Tokyo Electric Power Co. as it tries to meet its goal of bringing the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to a cold shutdown by year’s end.
A pool of radioactive water was discovered midday Sunday around a decontamination device, TEPCO said in a statement on its website. After the equipment was turned off, the leak appeared to stop. Later, workers found a crack in a concrete barrier leaking the contaminated water into a gutter that leads to the ocean.
TEPCO estimated that about 300 liters leaked out before the crack was blocked with sandbags.
Officials were checking whether any water had reached the nearby ocean.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Iran Admits Nuclear Sites Hit by 'Duqu' Cyberweapon
Iran described similar attacks in April and pegged them to a virus it called "stars."
That was Duqu too, Schouwenberg said.
HA HA, Iran must be pissed; even if nothing has happened as a result of this new virus.
Foxnews
Iranian officials admitted Sunday that they had uncovered evidence of the Duqu computer virus -- labeled "Son of Stuxnet" by cyber experts -- at the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites, state-controlled IRNA news agency reported.
"We are in the initial phase of fighting the Duqu virus," Gholamreza Jalali, was quoted as saying. "The final report which says which organizations the virus has spread to and what its impacts are has not been completed yet."
Duqu is the second major weaponized virus to turn computers into lethal weapons with devastating destructive power.
The new program, discovered by Symantec in mid-October with the help of an unnamed research lab, uses much of the same code as the 2010 Stuxnet virus did. But instead of destroying the systems it infects, Duqu secretly penetrates them and, according to some experts, creates “back door” vulnerabilities that can be exploited to destroy the networks at any time its creators may choose.
The original Stuxnet malware was the culmination of a vast technical and espionage effort that had only one target in mind: the Iranian nuclear program. And is widely believed to be the work of the United States and Israel. Experts who looked at the program were amazed at its ability to penetrate Iran’s secure, highly protected security system and destroy it without being detected.
Its success set back the Iranian nuclear program for years.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Ahmadinejad Vows Not to Retreat on Nuclear Drive
"This nation won't retreat one iota from the path it is going," Ahmadinejad told thousands of people in Shahr-e-Kord in central Iran. "Why are you ruining the prestige of the (U.N. nuclear) agency for absurd U.S. claims?"
So the monkey man speaks and he said that Iran WILL not divert from its nuclear program.
And the usual co conspirators are at their defense, Russia and China both are screaming for the world to just leave Iran alone and not ramp up any sanctions.
Most likely because of their vested interest in Iran Developing a strong Nuclear program and developing a Nuclear Bomb (Your allies are much more feared by others when they to are Nuclear Armed)
So the big question, will Israel strike ? Will they make Irans Nuclear facilities look like Syrias? (a pile of ruble).
Foxnews
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Wednesday that Iran won't retreat "one iota" from its nuclear program, denying claims that it seeks atomic weapons. Key ally Russia gave the Islamic Republic a major boost, rejecting tighter sanctions despite a U.N. watchdog report detailing suspected arms-related advances.
Israel called on the world to stop Iran's nuclear program in response to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency's report. The Israeli statement did not refer to the option of a military attack, Israel considers Iran its most dangerous enemy...
"Any additional sanctions against Iran would be perceived by the international community as an instrument for regime change in Tehran," deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the Interfax news agency, adding that Russia "does not intend to consider such proposals."...
China has not publicly commented yet on a U.N. assessment of Iran's nuclear programs in a likely sign that it will wait for Washington and Moscow to signal their intentions. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Wednesday that Beijing was studying the report and repeated calls for dialogue and cooperation...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Iran moved nuclear material to bunker
Of course, it is what the Iranians do; hide stuff, lie, build nukes, lie...
No one should be surprised by this report, the signs have been their for a long time.
Diplomacy will not stop Iran, Sanctions have obviously done nothing; so what next?
Reuters
Iran has started moving nuclear material to an underground facility for the pursuit of sensitive atomic activities, a U.N. nuclear agency report showed, a development likely to add to Western suspicions Tehran is trying to build a weapon.
The International Atomic Energy Agency document also said Iran had continued to stockpile low-enriched uranium (LEU) and one prominent U.S. think-tank said it had enough of the material for four nuclear weapons if it refines it further.
The information that Iran last month moved a "large cylinder" with LEU to the Fordow subterranean site was included in the U.N. body's most comprehensive report yet pointing to military aspects of Tehran's nuclear program.
The main finding in the IAEA report, which was leaked on Tuesday, was that Iran appeared to have worked on designing a nuclear warhead and that secret weapons-relevant research may continue.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Dismantling the Bomb.
Dismantling the worlds largest nuke was not an easy task, the people that created the beast are all dead or almost dead; and tey actually had to reinvent tools to perform the dismantling.
This thing was 100 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima.
The Telegraph
The last B-53 bomb – built in 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis – was dismantled at the Pantex facility in Amarillo, the only place in the United States that still builds, maintains and dismantles nuclear weapons.
Grey in colour, weighing 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilograms) and as big as a small car, it had the power to wipe out an entire metropolitan area with its nine-megaton yield when dropped from a B-52 bomber.
By comparison, the atom bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima in the final days of World War II packed a yield of 12 kilotons, or 0.012 megatons. The bomb killed more than 100,000 people.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
1 Dead in Explosion at French Nuclear Plant
Cooking up low radioactive stew.
"According to initial information, the explosion happened in an oven used to melt radioactive metallic waste of little and very little radioactivity," the statement said. "There have been no leaks outside of the site."
Foxnews
A nuclear waste site in southern France had an explosion Monday that killed one person, seriously burned another and slightly injured three others, France's nuclear safety body said.
The Nuclear Safety Authority said no radioactive leaks have been detected in the blast at 12:37 p.m. at an oven in the Centraco nuclear site. The accident was under control within the hour, the agency said in a statement.
Centraco is located on the grounds of another nuclear site, Marcoule, in the Languedoc-Roussillon region near the Mediterranean Sea.
"According to initial information, the explosion happened in an oven used to melt radioactive metallic waste of little and very little radioactivity," the statement said. "There have been no leaks outside of the site."
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Radioactive isotope, maybe from Fukushima, detected, but ...
But... there is nothing to worry about, move along sheeple, the radioactive isotopes will not hurt you !
My Ass.
The Los Angeles Times
Very small amounts of a radioactive isotope of sulfur, believed to have traveled across the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, have been detected in La Jolla, Calif., by UC San Diego scientists.
But there's no need to worry: The amounts are nowhere near enough to cause health problems, researchers said.
Senior author Mark Thiemens and his team keep tabs on levels of sulfur-35 as part of their climate research. Readings collected shortly after the March 11 tsunami in Japan indicated that there were 1,500 atoms of sulfur-35 per square meter of air in La Jolla, a significant increase over normal levels.
The UCSD team interpreted the bump as the result of a reaction that would have occurred when plant workers used seawater to cool overheating reactors at Fukushima. Neutrons from the reactor core would have reacted with chlorine in ocean water to create radioactive sulfur, Thiemens said.
"The levels we observed are in no way harmful in California," Thiemens said.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Nagasaki remembers bombing; US has representative
The One that assured the end of WWII and saved the deaths of possibly millions of Japanese and Americans by preventing the invasion of Japan !
Signed sealed and delivered.
Terrible, Yes, devastating, Yes, but this is also one of the reasons America works so hard to keep this type of weapon away from fruitcakes like Ahmadinejad, and Kim Jong Ill.
Forbes
The U.S. has sent its first representative to the annual memorial for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, as the Japanese city remembered the historic horrors of radiation amid the nation's unfolding nuclear crisis.
As in past years, a moment of silence was observed at 11:02 a.m. Tuesday, 66 years after the moment the bomb dropped on the southern city on Aug. 9, 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Japan Plans Safety Tests of Nuclear Plants
Stress test time.
this could come up nothing but bad news for Japans Nuclear power plants.
Do they really know what the constant bombardment of earthquakes will do to a containment pit? Concrete can be fragile, stress cracks, shrinkage, crazing, all are constant problems with Concrete structures.
So with the help of Earthquakes, who knows what shape the reactors are in.
The New York Times
TOKYO — Japan will conduct new safety tests of its nuclear plants, the nation’s top energy official said on Wednesday, in a move aimed at persuading local communities to allow the restarting of idled nuclear reactors.
The official, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda, said the so-called stress tests will measure the plants’ ability to withstand larger-than-expected earthquakes and tsunamis, like those that disabled the Fukushima Daiichi plant in March.
He said the tests, which are modeled on those conducted by the European Union on its plants, are intended to give “a sense of assurance” to local residents.
Monday, June 13, 2011
U.S. Intercepts North Korean Ship Carrying Missiles to Burma
The Norks up to the same old crap again, you would think they would not even try anymore but they still do.
I wonder how many shipments they have been successful with?
Foxnews
The US Navy intercepted a North Korean ship suspected of carrying missiles to Burma, forcing it to return to the rogue nuclear state, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported Monday.
The vessel, The Light, was Sunday reported to have returned to North Korea after drifting in international waters.
Gary Samore, the special assistant to President Barack Obama for arms control and weapons of mass destruction, said the US suspected that the vessel was heading to Burma to deliver military equipment such as small arms and missile-related items, according to the report.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Iran Israel Minister: Strike on Iran Could Be Necessary
I understand Mr. Yaalon's point, but who cares, that is the problem, who cares?
Only th U.S., Israel, and a small select few people believe that Iran Is going to be a problem once they acquire Nukes.
The rest of the world could care less, they would rather nut-hug Iran than talk bad about them.
Foxnews
MOSCOW – An Israeli Cabinet minister said the civilized world must take joint action to avert the Iranian nuclear threat, including a pre-emptive strike if necessary.
Moshe Yaalon — the minister for strategic affairs — made the statement in an interview with Russia's Interfax news agency released Monday ahead of a visit to Moscow.
"We strongly hope that the entire civilized world will come to realize what threat this regime is posing and take joint action to avert the nuclear threat posed by Iran, even if it would be necessary to conduct a pre-emptive strike," Yaalon was quoted by Interfax as saying.
Yaalon wouldn't discuss who might deal the strike, saying the entire world, not just Israel, must be concerned about the danger posed by a nuclear-armed Iran.
"An Iran possessing nuclear weapons would be a threat to the entire civilized world," he was reported as saying.
Yaalon's spokesman Ofer Harel told The Associated Press later Monday that the minister was repeating Israel's position that all options are on the table and not calling for anybody to attack Iran
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tepco confirms extra partial fuel rod meltdown at plant
"Based on our analysis, we have reached the conclusion that a certain amount of nuclear fuel has melted down,"
At least they finally admit to what everyone has already known.
Now what is the extent of these "Partial Meltdowns" that is the bigger question.
BBC
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has confirmed the meltdown of extra fuel rods in reactors at its damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
The company said that the rods were in its Number 2 and Number 3 reactors.
Tepco has been trying to contain radiation from the plant, crippled by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
The company said that it planned to stick to its timetable of getting the radiation under control by January.
Tepco's announcement came on the same day that a team from the United Nations' atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), kicked off a visit in Japan.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Nuclear crisis raised to Chernobyl level
There have been no fatalities resulting from the leaks at Fukushima, and risks to human health are thought to be low.
And the most disturbing thought of this whole Disaster, They keep saying the risk from the radiation is thought to be low... Thought, not really known.
BBC
Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of their nuclear crisis to the highest level, seven.
The decision reflects the total release of radiation at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which is ongoing, rather than a sudden deterioration.
Level seven previously only applied to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, where 10 times as much radiation was emitted.
There have been no fatalities resulting from the leaks at Fukushima, and risks to human health are thought to be low.
The level seven signifies a "major accident" with "wider consequences" than the previous level, officials say.
But the change has not been made because things have suddenly got worse at the Fukushima plant. Rather, a full assessment of the available data now suggests that a higher rating is justified.
Although the Japanese incident now equates to Chernobyl on the international scale, the two accidents are different in a number of important ways. In Chernobyl it was the reactor core itself that exploded, releasing a huge amount of radioactive material in a very short space of time. Fukushima experienced a less critical hydrogen explosion.
The initial radiation leak amounted to about a 10th of that which escaped from Chernobyl. The major concern in Japan is that the nuclear plant has not yet been brought under control, and some radioactive material is still seeping out.
"We have upgraded the severity level to seven as the impact of radiation leaks has been widespread from the air, vegetables, tap water and the ocean," said Minoru Oogoda of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (Nisa), the government's nuclear watchdog.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
'Ten years' to decommission nuclear plant
Ten years, just to decommission the plants. What about stopping the Radioactivity from leaching out everywhere.
Twenty Five years since Chernobyl, and they still don't have the sarcophagus built, so ten years; that's pretty ambitious.
BBC
Japanese reactor maker Toshiba says it could decommission the earthquake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in about 10 years, a third quicker than the US Three Mile Island plant.
Radiation has been leaking from the Fukushima plant since a 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami on 11 March.
Its operator said it would stop pumping radioactive water into the sea on Sunday, a day later than expected.
Toshiba, one of two Japanese nuclear reactor makers, said it could decommission the Fukushima-Daiichi plant in about 10 years, Kyodo news agency reported.
That would be about two-thirds of the time taken to dismantle the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US after it suffered a partial reactor core meltdown in 1979.
The work would involve removing the fuel rods from their containers and the spent fuel rods from the storage pools from four of the plant's reactors and demolishing facilities.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Trace Amounts of Radiation From Japan Found in U.S. Drinking Water
And here we go, "Trace" levels of Radiation! That's all, don't worry about it right?
Fine, but I do not trust the EPA, (A government thing, you know) and knowing what most Government agencies do "LIE" I ain't buying it.
For one why are we not hearing about the radiation traversing the U.S., why is nothing being said. the Japanese Government has been lying for weeks over how much radiation has been being spewed into the environment, so why wouldn't ours do the same? you know,
all in the name of helping Japan, all in the name of keeping panic out of the news, all in the name of Bullshit!
No I don't think we are being overdosed with radiation, but I do believe that our Government would specifically keep numbers at lower levels so as to keep us in the dark over how much we really are being radiated! in the name of "It's for our own good"
Foxnews
Trace amounts of radioactive iodine from Japan's crippled nuclear reactors have been found in drinking water in Washington State and Idaho, the Environmental Protection Agency announced late Monday.
The levels of iodine-131 found -- about 0.2 picocuries per liter -- in drinking water samples from Boise, Idaho, and Richland, Wash., are so small that EPA officials estimate that an infant would have to drink nearly 7,000 liters to receive a dose of radiation equivalent to a day's worth of normal background radiation.
"Earlier precipitation samples collected by EPA have shown trace amounts of radioactivity, so EPA has expected to find results such as these in some drinking water samples," the statement read. "Similar findings are to be expected in the coming weeks."
The EPA's standard for the maximum level of iodine-131 in drinking water is 3 picocuries per liter. Iodine-131 can be harmful in higher amounts, particularly to infants and young children, because it concentrates in the thyroid gland and can lead to cancer.
Drinking water tested free of detectable levels of radioactive contaminants in several other U.S. cities, including Seattle; Portland; Idaho Falls, Idaho; New Orleans; Bismarck, N.D.; Austin, Texas; and Lynchburg, Va.
Also on Monday, the EPA reported elevated levels of radionuclides in rainwater from Olympia, Portland and cities in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Tennessee. Levels of iodine-131 ranged as high as 242 picocuries per liter in Boise. Levels in Olympia, Wash., and Portland, Ore., were 125 picocuries per liter and 87 picocuries per liter, respectively.
Although those levels are several times higher than the EPA's drinking-water standard for iodine-131, the agency says that the standard is designed to protect a person who drinks contaminated water daily for 70 years. However, because the isotope has a half-life of eight days, levels of iodine-131 are expected to drop quickly.
Japanese Plug Nuclear Plant Leak
Sounds good eh? And it is, it is awesome news. But the problem now is Hydrogen buildup within one of the containment vessels, this is not so good.
If they can not properly treat this situation and get it under control we will have a Chernobyl style situation.
Let's hope they are already building the sarcophagus for this one.
VOA
Troubles continue at Japan's crippled nuclear plant, where technicians believe they have solved one big problem but are confronting another.
Officials said Wednesday they have finally stopped a leak of radioactive water from the Fukushima power station that was raising radiation in the nearby ocean to millions of times the legal limit.
But now they are worried about a build-up of hydrogen inside the containment vessel at another of the plant's six reactors, creating the risk of an explosion that could release large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. Plant officials said they may pump nitrogen into the reactor in an attempt to halt the chemical reaction.
