re: recent high level debate about politics versus panoramics (!)  here some
information of the moment to remind us that the world we live in complex and
very dangerous  on many levels.

mark




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From: "Di McDonald (NIS)" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:12:24 +0100
Subject: Georgia and nuclear materials

*FYI- apologies for cross-posting

Georgia*
Letter from David Lowry: Your defence correspondent rightly highlights
concerns over sensitive nuclear materials "going missing" from Georgia,
and potentially being made into a "dirty" radiological bomb. Britain
played a role a decade ago in removing enriched uranium from Georgia for
safer storage at Dounreay. It was airfreighted from Tbilisi with
American support on April 24, 1998, and then taken from RAF Kinloss to
Dounreay by road. In 1998, the Government announced Dounreay would
undertake no further commercial irradiated fuel reprocessing. Of current
concern are a nuclear waste dump at Tskhinvali and reported storage of
some radioactive waste or radioactive contamination at bases in Georgia,
at Lilo, Vaziani, Godogani and Matkhodzhi.

Telegraph 20th Aug 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=1588&menuItemId=-1&view
=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=A1&targetRule=0
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?menuId=1588&menuItemId=-1&vie
w=DISPLAYCONTENT&grid=A1&targetRule=0>

US Press
The chaos in Georgia has forced the United States to halt a
high-priority program that was helping the former Soviet republic to
identify possible smugglers of nuclear bomb components across its
borders, long considered a transit point for terrorists seeking to
obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to US officials.
<http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/>
Boston Globe 19th Aug 2008
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/08/19/georgia_chaos_ha
lts_nuclear_security_effort/

from:  http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk
<http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/>

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