More Uranium News :(
Earth Day--a celebration of the majestic beauty of this planet we live with.
Humans need to get a grip.
I'm not thrilled with the state of global consciousness.
I blog to speak out.
I practice passive resistance.
I do what I can.
I'm a Hot Potatoe, you see.
And nobody I know
Seems to Listen to me.
Strange.
Old friends have been calling me up. They all want to pick my brain and have me give a prophecy, which I most adamantly will not do.
I say, Read my blog because I'm saying a lot in blogdom and they say, I don't have the time. Oh well. That's the way people are.
Onwards to history in the making.
BBC is keeping us well informed on the nuclear front. I'm surprised at the New York Times. I've been surprised by the Times' headlines for a while now. It isn't the New York Times I grew up with, but then nothing is the same any more. Whilst la plus qui change la plus c'est la meme chose, and ontogeny recapitulates philogeny, and change is constant, and the sum of the parts is greater than the whole are all still in play, everything is certainly most different. Out of memory - exiled memories are beginning to re manifest.
News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4935612.stm
Iran nuclear work 'irreversible'
Iran claims it has struck a deal to enrich uranium with Russia
{Note - I've been waiting to see how Russia is going to fit in with all this. They're being too quiet, and having all these major earthquakes, 7.7's, and coming up on the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl. They have lots of left over parts :( }
Iran has called its uranium enrichment work "irreversible", days before a UN deadline for the programme to stop.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also said demands for Iran to suspend its nuclear research work were "not on the agenda".
The UN Security Council called on Iran to suspend enrichment by 28 April, amid fears it wants to make nuclear weapons.
{Gee, ya think?}
Iran - which insists its programme is peaceful - announced this month it had enriched uranium for the first time.
The UN Security Council, in a statement issued on 29 March, asked nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report back within 30 days on whether Iran has complied with the UN call.
But Mr Asefi told a weekly news conference: "Iran's uranium enrichment and nuclear research and development activities are irreversible".
{NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE
Mined uranium ore is purified and reconstituted into solid form known as yellowcake
Yellowcake is converted into a gas by heating it to about 64C (147F)
Gas is fed through centrifuges, where its isotopes separate and process is repeated until uranium is enriched
Low-level enriched uranium is used for nuclear fuel
Highly enriched uranium can be used in nuclear weapons
In depth: Nuclear fuel cycle }
He said that so long as the IAEA report contained "expert assessment", there would be "nothing left to worry about".
Diplomatic flurry
"However, if the report comes out and somehow puts pressure on Iran or speaks with a language of threats, naturally Iran will not abandon its rights and it is prepared for all possible situations and has planned for it."
The BBC's Tehran correspondent, Frances Harrison, says there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity by Iran in the run-up to the deadline, and some calls internally for a less confrontational approach towards the West on the nuclear issue
Mr Asefi said Iran was still discussing with Russia a plan for Iran to enrich uranium on Russian soil.
Iran first gave details of the plan in February, and on Saturday, state radio said an outline agreement had been reached, but details were still to be worked out.
Our correspondent says that the problem with the plan, which has been seen as a possible solution to the stand-off with the West, is that Iranian officials continue to adamantly rule out halting enrichment research on their own soil.
Enrichment work
Iran's announcement that it had enriched uranium for the first time has thrown attention on to its enrichment technology.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said earlier this month that Iran was testing a more advanced centrifuge, known as a P-2.
The P-2 centrifuge can enrich uranium more quickly, raising fears in some Western capitals that Iran could develop nuclear weapons more quickly than originally thought.
{Oy.}
Mr Asefi said Iran had not yet used P-2 centrifuges in its enrichment work.
"So far, we have never used P-2 centrifuges, and what we have used is P-1 machines. We have informed the agency (IAEA) about that.
"No-one can deny Iran from using these devices. However, they have not yet been used," said Mr Asefi.
Iran says its nuclear programme is for purely peaceful purposes
Mr Asefi also said there were no plans for Iran to meet the US to discuss the situation in war-torn Iraq.
"Nothing has been scheduled and set. Preparations have not even been made for these talks," Mr Asefi told reporters.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had authorised the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to reach out to the Iranians for direct talks on Iraq, raising hopes that the two sides might also been drawn into discussions on the nuclear stand-off.
"We are not in hurry because we have been pessimistic about US intentions as we still are. It is nothing important," said Mr Asefi.
.....
Well well well. hmmm.
.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4922508.stm
'Too little known on Chernobyl'
{I'm just posting highlights of this story - you can click to read. Who is this 'you' I'm always speaking to in the blog. I guess it is me from the point of the observer as the case may be. }
Not enough is yet known to fully evaluate the long-term health effect of the Chernobyl disaster, experts argue.
Twenty years after the nuclear incident, it is still not clear what the full effect on people exposed to radioactive materials will be.
Estimates of the number of people who will die as a result have ranged from 9,000 to 93,000 deaths.
Writing in the journal, Dr Dillwyn Williams a thyroid cancer expert from Strangeways Research Laboratories, Cambridge, UK, and Dr Keith Baverstock, an environmental specialist from the University of Kuopio in Finland, said lessons could be learnt from history.
They said the aftermath of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the US was that 20 years is too soon to be able to predict all the consequences of fallout.
The radiation exposure was different in Japan - where the bombs led to whole body radiation.
After Chernobyl, exposure was largely from radioactive particles inhaled or ingested by people living nearby - except for those working near the reactor.
But the scientists say the Japanese Radiation Effects Research Foundation, which was set up to study the bombs' legacy, is a good model for monitoring the effect of Chernobyl.
The thyroid cancers seen have been linked to high levels of radioactive isotopes of iodine.
But radioactive iodine can also concentrate in the salivary glands, the stomach and the breast tissue.
There are already indications that the breast cancer rate in Gomel, Belarus, and other heavily contaminated areas, is double that which would be expected.
Drs Williams and Baverstock add: "If a full, independent study of the consequences of the world's worst nuclear accident is not established, and its results not widely published for all to assess, wildly differing claims will continue, and public mistrust of the nuclear industry will grow further."
Louisa Vinton, who manages Chernobyl projects for the UN Development Programme, said myths about radiation had created a "paralysing fatalism".
The mental health of people in the area had suffered, with seven million being labelled as victims of the accident, and aid to the area had created a culture of dependency, which might have encouraged exaggerated fears of ill health among residents, she said.
The worst-hit areas will be radioactive for centuries; but much of the abandoned area will be habitable within decades.
The Chernobyl Forum says the 30-km exclusion zone around the plant is likely to remain in place.
But it suggested that, in other areas, roads should be rebuilt and people encouraged to start up farms and hospitals.
.....
look how much they're not saying in so many words.
When I try to discuss this issue with people, the standard reply is, well, it doesn't affect me.
Yes it do .
It affects us all, and our Planet, Earth, and the Entire Solar System, and the Entire Universe.
We're being yutzes. We're not learning.
I'm relying upon Blue Peace Consciousness, and I Am Unanimous in that. :D
Humans need to get a grip.
I'm not thrilled with the state of global consciousness.
I blog to speak out.
I practice passive resistance.
I do what I can.
I'm a Hot Potatoe, you see.
And nobody I know
Seems to Listen to me.
Strange.
Old friends have been calling me up. They all want to pick my brain and have me give a prophecy, which I most adamantly will not do.
I say, Read my blog because I'm saying a lot in blogdom and they say, I don't have the time. Oh well. That's the way people are.
Onwards to history in the making.
BBC is keeping us well informed on the nuclear front. I'm surprised at the New York Times. I've been surprised by the Times' headlines for a while now. It isn't the New York Times I grew up with, but then nothing is the same any more. Whilst la plus qui change la plus c'est la meme chose, and ontogeny recapitulates philogeny, and change is constant, and the sum of the parts is greater than the whole are all still in play, everything is certainly most different. Out of memory - exiled memories are beginning to re manifest.
News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4935612.stm
Iran nuclear work 'irreversible'
Iran claims it has struck a deal to enrich uranium with Russia
{Note - I've been waiting to see how Russia is going to fit in with all this. They're being too quiet, and having all these major earthquakes, 7.7's, and coming up on the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl. They have lots of left over parts :( }
Iran has called its uranium enrichment work "irreversible", days before a UN deadline for the programme to stop.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also said demands for Iran to suspend its nuclear research work were "not on the agenda".
The UN Security Council called on Iran to suspend enrichment by 28 April, amid fears it wants to make nuclear weapons.
{Gee, ya think?}
Iran - which insists its programme is peaceful - announced this month it had enriched uranium for the first time.
The UN Security Council, in a statement issued on 29 March, asked nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to report back within 30 days on whether Iran has complied with the UN call.
But Mr Asefi told a weekly news conference: "Iran's uranium enrichment and nuclear research and development activities are irreversible".
{NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE
Mined uranium ore is purified and reconstituted into solid form known as yellowcake
Yellowcake is converted into a gas by heating it to about 64C (147F)
Gas is fed through centrifuges, where its isotopes separate and process is repeated until uranium is enriched
Low-level enriched uranium is used for nuclear fuel
Highly enriched uranium can be used in nuclear weapons
In depth: Nuclear fuel cycle }
He said that so long as the IAEA report contained "expert assessment", there would be "nothing left to worry about".
Diplomatic flurry
"However, if the report comes out and somehow puts pressure on Iran or speaks with a language of threats, naturally Iran will not abandon its rights and it is prepared for all possible situations and has planned for it."
The BBC's Tehran correspondent, Frances Harrison, says there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity by Iran in the run-up to the deadline, and some calls internally for a less confrontational approach towards the West on the nuclear issue
Mr Asefi said Iran was still discussing with Russia a plan for Iran to enrich uranium on Russian soil.
Iran first gave details of the plan in February, and on Saturday, state radio said an outline agreement had been reached, but details were still to be worked out.
Our correspondent says that the problem with the plan, which has been seen as a possible solution to the stand-off with the West, is that Iranian officials continue to adamantly rule out halting enrichment research on their own soil.
Enrichment work
Iran's announcement that it had enriched uranium for the first time has thrown attention on to its enrichment technology.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said earlier this month that Iran was testing a more advanced centrifuge, known as a P-2.
The P-2 centrifuge can enrich uranium more quickly, raising fears in some Western capitals that Iran could develop nuclear weapons more quickly than originally thought.
{Oy.}
Mr Asefi said Iran had not yet used P-2 centrifuges in its enrichment work.
"So far, we have never used P-2 centrifuges, and what we have used is P-1 machines. We have informed the agency (IAEA) about that.
"No-one can deny Iran from using these devices. However, they have not yet been used," said Mr Asefi.
Iran says its nuclear programme is for purely peaceful purposes
Mr Asefi also said there were no plans for Iran to meet the US to discuss the situation in war-torn Iraq.
"Nothing has been scheduled and set. Preparations have not even been made for these talks," Mr Asefi told reporters.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had authorised the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to reach out to the Iranians for direct talks on Iraq, raising hopes that the two sides might also been drawn into discussions on the nuclear stand-off.
"We are not in hurry because we have been pessimistic about US intentions as we still are. It is nothing important," said Mr Asefi.
.....
Well well well. hmmm.
.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4922508.stm
'Too little known on Chernobyl'
{I'm just posting highlights of this story - you can click to read. Who is this 'you' I'm always speaking to in the blog. I guess it is me from the point of the observer as the case may be. }
Not enough is yet known to fully evaluate the long-term health effect of the Chernobyl disaster, experts argue.
Twenty years after the nuclear incident, it is still not clear what the full effect on people exposed to radioactive materials will be.
Estimates of the number of people who will die as a result have ranged from 9,000 to 93,000 deaths.
Writing in the journal, Dr Dillwyn Williams a thyroid cancer expert from Strangeways Research Laboratories, Cambridge, UK, and Dr Keith Baverstock, an environmental specialist from the University of Kuopio in Finland, said lessons could be learnt from history.
They said the aftermath of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the US was that 20 years is too soon to be able to predict all the consequences of fallout.
The radiation exposure was different in Japan - where the bombs led to whole body radiation.
After Chernobyl, exposure was largely from radioactive particles inhaled or ingested by people living nearby - except for those working near the reactor.
But the scientists say the Japanese Radiation Effects Research Foundation, which was set up to study the bombs' legacy, is a good model for monitoring the effect of Chernobyl.
The thyroid cancers seen have been linked to high levels of radioactive isotopes of iodine.
But radioactive iodine can also concentrate in the salivary glands, the stomach and the breast tissue.
There are already indications that the breast cancer rate in Gomel, Belarus, and other heavily contaminated areas, is double that which would be expected.
Drs Williams and Baverstock add: "If a full, independent study of the consequences of the world's worst nuclear accident is not established, and its results not widely published for all to assess, wildly differing claims will continue, and public mistrust of the nuclear industry will grow further."
Louisa Vinton, who manages Chernobyl projects for the UN Development Programme, said myths about radiation had created a "paralysing fatalism".
The mental health of people in the area had suffered, with seven million being labelled as victims of the accident, and aid to the area had created a culture of dependency, which might have encouraged exaggerated fears of ill health among residents, she said.
The worst-hit areas will be radioactive for centuries; but much of the abandoned area will be habitable within decades.
The Chernobyl Forum says the 30-km exclusion zone around the plant is likely to remain in place.
But it suggested that, in other areas, roads should be rebuilt and people encouraged to start up farms and hospitals.
.....
look how much they're not saying in so many words.
When I try to discuss this issue with people, the standard reply is, well, it doesn't affect me.
Yes it do .
It affects us all, and our Planet, Earth, and the Entire Solar System, and the Entire Universe.
We're being yutzes. We're not learning.
I'm relying upon Blue Peace Consciousness, and I Am Unanimous in that. :D
posted by VickeB | 2:44 PM
2 Comments:
I am a you, and you are a me.. :-)
I read, and I am listening.. I think you know me... :-)
The one thing I know, is that this, all of this, has happened before and will happen again, until each and every last one of the pieces of the whole remember who we are...
Don't forget to remember, remember to not forget.
It's just a thought..
In a dream..
Nothing is really as it seems.. :-)
The unreal appearing real.. Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exisist...
And if somehow we do manage to blow ourselves right off the plant, well the cycle will return and we'll get another chance to do it over again, and again and again and again.. Untill we all remember.
And inevitably at the end of times, we did all remember.. The story, no matter how many times it twists and turns has only one ending.. The beginning......
Your reader... Listening...
Hi Will. Great to see you again.
Thanks.
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