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The Secret Effort To Clean Up a Former Soviet Nuclear Test Site

Posted by Soulskill on from the head-down-to-the-plutonium-dump-and-grab-me-something-shiny dept.

Lasrick writes "The Plutonium Mountain report has just been released by the Belfer Center at Harvard. It describes the remarkable effort the U.S. made to get the Russians to recognize the nuclear proliferation risk they left behind at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test when the Soviet Union collapsed. In this interview with Siegfried Hecker, he describes how he and other scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory recognized the risk to world security as the Semipalatinsk site became overrun with metal scavengers. Quoting: 'The copper cable thieves were not nomads on camelback, but instead they employed industrial excavation machinery and left kilometers of deep trenches digging out everything they could sell. We were concerned that some of that copper cabling could lead to plutonium residues.'"

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  1. Okay, I can't hold it in anymore. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Okay, I can't hold it in anymore.

    Fuck them. Fuck them all to Hell, back again, and then back to Hell, whereupon they shall be fucked by the Barbed Cock of Satan for the rest of eternity.

    Fuck the Muslim Brotherhood for existing. Fuck them for deciding that Christians- who have no governmental authority at all- are legitimate targets when fighting against the government. Fuck them for choosing Evil over Good.

    Fuck the "World Leaders" who all decided it would be a good idea for Hosni Mubarak to go. Fuck them for thinking the Muslim Brotherhood was anything *other* than Evil on Earth. Fuck them for standing idly by while this happens.

    Fuck the Republicans for being cowardly weasels. Fuck them for not opposing Barack Obama- who has sided with the Muslim Brotherhood, and therefore with Evil- at every turn. Fuck them for not stepping in to provide the Moral Counterweight that Obama will not.

    Fuck the Democrats for putting their own political gains above the lives of innocents- whether American or otherwise. Fuck them for supporting Radical Islam because it scores them political points.

    Fuck Barack Hussein Obama for siding with Evil over Good. Fuck him for deciding that the Muslim Brotherhood would be a good diplomatic partner. Fuck him for selling Israel up the river.

    What in God's Good Name is wrong with this fucking joke of an Administration?