Years · 2008

April 2008

29 posts

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300 IR-2s?

We’re just four days away from National Nuclear Technology Day in Iran when no doubt President Ahmadinejad will have another big announcement to make. In preparation, Iran seems to have been installing some more P-2s IR-2s (ooops, sorry). George Jahn…

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While England Slept

My blog post on Gordon England and nuclear weapons spending (DEPSECDEF Deeply Confused, March 29, 2008) made Al Kamen’s In the Loop in the Washington Post. While England Slept Usually, witnesses at congressional hearings enlighten lawmakers on the inner workings…

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Coming to America

I’m off to DC next week. I’m going to be appearing at the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday and the New America Foundation on Wednesday. It’s what you call a bipartisan approach. At AEI I’m a panellist at a one-day…

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Nuclear Strategy Follow-On White Paper Deux

I hear the Administration has delivered the Nuclear Strategy Follow-On White Paper a/k/a How I learned to stop worrying and love the RRW to the Hill in time for the FY 2009 budget process. Of, course, the NSFOWP is classified.…

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Shea's Convention, the UAE and Finland

Here as promised is Tom Shea’s Notional convention on nuclear power. Two other nuclear power factoids I heard recently that may interest… First, the UAE has announced its intention not to acquire enrichment or reprocessing technology as part of its…

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AP: China Gives IAEA Intel on Iran

So say anonymous diplomatic sources to AP reporter George Jahn. Bearing in mind the usual caveats about anonymous sources, this is noteworthy on at least two levels. First, it is an encouraging sign of China’s (too) slow but promising embrace…

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Olmert Claims BOE was "Nuclear-Related"

Well, Israeli Prime Minister Olmert told Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda that the “Box on the Euphrates” asked for it, “Japanese government sources” leaked the contents of the meeting to the Asahi Shimbun, and Asahi translated it as “nuclear-related.” Maybe he…

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An Unexpected Speech

Just over a week ago I arrived in Paris for a weekend away, went to my hotel and (while my room was being prepared) went to use the lobby ‘facilities’. On the wall was Le Figaro with the headline ‘Sarkozy…

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Areva's Big Ol' Back End

French nuclear power company Areva has a cartoon touting the the reprocessing of plutonium though as far as I can tell they use neither “reprocess” or “plutonium.” They stick to “recycling” and “fuel” to make it sound green and friendly.…