Global stocks of nuke bomb material growing-survey

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/CHA335887.htm

VIENNA, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The world's stockpiles of plutonium and highly enriched uranium useable in atomic weapons are growing, despite increasing fears about the security of nuclear materials, a U.S. based think-tank says in a new report.

The estimates of civilian and military stocks of plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) -- information treated by most governments as classified -- were prepared by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), run by former U.N. weapons inspector David Albright.

"At the end of 2003, there were more than 3,700 metric tons of plutonium and highly enriched uranium -- uranium enriched to 20 percent or uranium-235 -- enough for hundreds of thousands of nuclear weapons, in about 60 countries," Albright and Kimberly Kramer wrote in an article to be published in the next issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Most of the weapons-useable material is in Russia, followed by the United States.

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[oscar111]

1. all uranium underground: Nuclear power = Nuclear war

because nuclear power so often leads to siphoning off fuel and building bombs, leading to nuclear war,
the global goal ought to be

--All uranium underground.

that is, back in the ground.

only small medical and physics lab amounts ought to be left, under Swedish or IAEA control and surprise inspections.

Few are aware of this cost... uranium miners HERE develop lung cancer ... isnt it 90 percent of the time? Now imagine the rate in Pakistan mines, India mines, etc.

Imagine the cancers resulting from sloppiness in their enrichment plants, bomb plants, nuclear power plant cooling water, plant decommissioning, accidental leaks into the air which even happen in first world nations, as we saw at Three Mile Island and the meltdown in Soviet Union.

Nuclear power is a flop. Forget it.
Plus it leads to nuclear war.

ALL uranium underground

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2. Proof that there is 90% lung cancer rate?

Also how many people have died from coal? Those numbers are pretty high too.

[oscar111]

4. source years ago: coal might also sicken, but no nuke war facilitation

good point about brown lung.. but the knockout point is :

nuclear power facilitates new nuclear wars, esp. in third world.

Coal doesnt.

Consider a nuke war in the middle east... end of israel, egypt, syria, jordan, saudi, and clouds drift over europe with radiation... also drift over india, even a bit all the way to California and Texas.

Nuclear power = Nuclear war

Tell all.

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3. kick

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