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2007-06-01 Europe

Russian spent fuel rods in Kola "a nuclear bomb"

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Posted by mrp 2007-06-01 09:19|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Russians---gorillas with tools---and that's not being fair to gorillas.

From the people that's brought more death from nuclear irradiation (Chernobyl, North Sea Fleet, etc.) than Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2007-06-01 10:49|| 2007-06-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Osama is sending a crew shortly to pick up the fuel and transport it to jihadistan. It may take several crews being sequentially irradiated to death, but they're lined up to give it all for Allan.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-01 13:40|| 2007-06-01 13:40|| Front Page Top

#3 As the saying goes: Russia has no disasters but the very worst.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-01 14:11|| 2007-06-01 14:11|| Front Page Top

#4 The Soviet Union's enduring historical legacy will be an endless laundry list of crimes against humanity and nature. The global community's condemnation of America for how it consumes so much of this world's resources rings false in light of how Rusiia continues to squander everything that passes through its hands. Much like the Palestinians, Russia has almost nothing to show for nearly a century of communist corruption. They are parasites on a massive scale.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-01 23:32|| 2007-06-01 23:32|| Front Page Top

#5 One would have thought the Russians might have learned their lesson(s) following Chernobyl and a similar storage disaster in the Urals back in the 60's as I recall.

An entire town simply seized to exist on old Soviet maps with no explanation as to why. Years or a decade or more later western experts figured out that the Soviets had been using an old mine to store nuclear power plant waste (ie used fuel rods), stored them improperly, and they blew taking a large chunk of the countryside with them (primarily due to radioactive contamination).

To this day, I'm told, the area is a "No Go" area in Russia.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-06-01 23:39|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-06-01 23:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah! Found it. Disaster occured in 1957 in the Urals near a secret Soviet nuclear facility at Ozersk. The town of Karabolka was evacuated and nearly a quarter of a million people were contaminated by a radioactive plume.

See

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/Karabolka-Nuclear-Disaster23apr04.htm

for the link.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-06-01 23:47|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-06-01 23:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's an even better link,

http://www.logtv.com/films/chelyabinsk/nuclear.htm

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-06-01 23:55|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-06-01 23:55|| Front Page Top

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