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Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 14:54:58 2008

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He never had a program though, it's a magic pile.

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The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret US operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.


The removal of 550 metric tons of the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to US and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions. (AP)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 5 15:36:17 2008, in response to Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed , posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 14:54:58 2008.

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a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium . . . 550 metric tons (1,212,542.44 pounds!) of the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment

No. Impossible. Didn't exist, right?

It also brought relief to US and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions

How can a nonexistent cache of uranium reach anyone, eh?

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 17:00:48 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed , posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 5 15:36:17 2008.

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people in the middle east live by a different reality than the west. Ask non-shia or non alawite Lebanese what they think of Obama.
And ask the gulf states about Iran's little peace bomb.

Sarcasm directed at 40% of the US, and 90% of europe.

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 5 20:00:09 2008, in response to Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed , posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 14:54:58 2008.

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Oh noes! Now we gotta bomb Canada. :)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Train Dude on Sat Jul 5 22:19:10 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 5 20:00:09 2008.

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I'm up for that ! :)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 5 22:23:13 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Train Dude on Sat Jul 5 22:19:10 2008.

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There goes YOUR passport. Nah, I prefer to go to Canada and GET bombed. :)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 23:16:38 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 5 22:23:13 2008.

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thinking about relearning french. Imagine Quebec is quite interesting(even if it's largest immigrant group is terrorist :p )

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Dan Lawrence on Sun Jul 6 06:53:04 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 23:16:38 2008.

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One problem.

If you learn current French, a francophone in Montreal won't understand you. The language in Quebec never evolved, while French in France did. The language in Quebec is stuck in the 17th Century.

Language is not rock solid, it constantly changes, words go out of fashion, change their meaning. English "steals" words out of other languages and uses them, unchanged.

If you got ahold of a time machine and went back to 1776, people would have a problem understanding you.

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 6 06:57:15 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Dan Lawrence on Sun Jul 6 06:53:04 2008.

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That's one of the things I actually ENJOY about Quebec! When I got sent down to Silver Spring when my mom died at age 13, went to White Oak Jr. High and THAT is the French we actually learned ... sorta like all that whitebread which learned Castillian Spanish instead of Puerto Rican/Mexican/Cubano. Heh. All I learned though in Maryland is actually USEFUL in Quebec! And NON to "le hamburger!" Heh.

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 12:18:13 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Dan Lawrence on Sun Jul 6 06:53:04 2008.

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they don't understand me now! :)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jul 6 13:15:10 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 6 06:57:15 2008.

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And NON to "le hamburger!"

Pourquoi pas? (Alors, c'est «le hamburger.») Whitebread is an epithet.



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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 15:02:21 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jul 6 13:15:10 2008.

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Hamburg?!??!?

It's the St Louis worlds fair!

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Jul 6 19:08:21 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 6 06:57:15 2008.

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And NON to "le hamburger!

Vive le pâté!

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jul 7 15:31:49 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jul 6 13:15:10 2008.

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I dare you to go stand on a street corner in Victoriaville and say "hamburger" three times loudly. If you're real good, I'll bring a carton of smokes for ya. :)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jul 7 15:32:14 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Jul 6 19:08:21 2008.

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Heh. :)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jul 7 18:38:52 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jul 7 15:31:49 2008.

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How come they get away with being intolerant and we can't?

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Mon Jul 7 18:56:45 2008, in response to Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed , posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sat Jul 5 14:54:58 2008.

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Is this another BS news report?

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jul 7 18:56:57 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jul 7 18:38:52 2008.

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They don't get violent about it, but you will get "the look" at least. :)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 8 01:11:34 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon Jul 7 18:56:57 2008.

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Oh well . . . just have to say "¿Qué pasa, amigo?" in response.

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 8 01:37:29 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Jul 6 19:08:21 2008.

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Pâté de tête, ou quoi?

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Robert King on Tue Jul 8 15:43:13 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed , posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Mon Jul 7 18:56:45 2008.

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No, it's true. The yellowcrap's not really useful for anything as it is now so what Cameco's going to do is a bit of work to turn it into mixed oxide fuel pellets for Ontario Hydro for electricity generation.

Ontario Hydro's been running mixed oxide fuel pellets through the nuclear plants to generate electricity since the mid 1990s to dispose of scrap Russian nuclear material, so this isn't unprecedented but it doesn't go on elsewhere because Hydro's nuclear reactors were designed with fuel flexibility in mind as part of the design specifications. I'm not opposed to cheap electricity.

-Robert King

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 12 15:21:46 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Robert King on Tue Jul 8 15:43:13 2008.

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The yellowcrap's not really useful for anything as it is now

. . . except for the fact that in the wrong hands, you can make 142 nuclear bombs out of it.

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 12 20:15:55 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 12 15:21:46 2008.

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Maybe if you're IRAN and can cook it for a few years ... dirty bombs, perhaps but the yellowcake was pretty much not much better than slag as it was. That's why Canada can do something with it since their tea kettles don't need as much heat as others do ...

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 12 21:07:57 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 12 20:15:55 2008.

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Maybe if you're IRAN and can cook it for a few years ... dirty bombs, perhaps but the yellowcake was pretty much not much better than slag as it was

Um, that's not the whole picture. Yellowcake is one step along the path to synthesizing plutonium. (You don't need U-235 to make Pu-239. U-238 is just fine.)

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 12 21:09:50 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 12 21:07:57 2008.

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There's a wee bit more involoved than an EZ-bake oven ... and why should "they" be bothered with table scraps when whole weapons have gone missing over the years?

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 12 21:12:40 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 12 21:09:50 2008.

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There's a wee bit more involoved than an EZ-bake oven

The yellercake wasn't there to put icing on, or for paperweights . . .

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Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed

Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 12 21:26:30 2008, in response to Re: Uranium stockpile from Iraq removed, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jul 12 21:12:40 2008.

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