Lost in the hubbub over North Korea’s claim to have completed reprocessing of its remaining spent fuel rods is one small point: this isn’t news. It’s a reminder only. Here’s what the KCNA news service has just stated: In this period, the DPRK restarted the reprocessing facilities and successfully completed the reprocessing of 8,000 spent …
LEU-TRR: Dialogue of the Deaf
by | 2009-11-03 | 21 Comments
Secretary of State Clinton’s remarks from Morocco yesterday seemed to represent a harder line on the LEU–TRR deal than the United States had taken previously: “Acceptance fully of this proposal which we have put forth and which we are unified behind would be a good indication that Iran does not wish to be isolated and …
Mianyang, From Space
by | 2009-11-03 | 3 Comments
Lots of good stuff coming in the next couple of days, so stay tuned. I noticed that that GoogleEarth now has a June 2008 image of Mianyang, home to China’s weapons design and fabrication facilities, and which I visited in 2007. (The city, not the design and fabrication facilities.) 31°27’42.76“N, 104°44’27.25“E Using GoogleEarth, I think …
Japan Weighs in on the Sejil
by | 2009-11-02 | 16 Comments
click on the image for a larger version There has probably never been a discussion on ACW that has aroused as much animated technical discussion as the thrust vector control (TVC) for Sejil. This is almost entirely due to the troubling ambiguity of two cables/tubes that run down the lower half of the first stage. …
