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Leak was found on the USS Houston during routine maintenance last month

Navy officials say amount of radiation leaked into water was virtually undetectable

Sub spent time at ports in Guam, Japan and Hawaii

Officials: Radiation was "negligible" and an "extremely low level"

From Jamie McIntyre and Mike Mount
CNN Pentagon Unit

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Muslim sues over loss of security clearance

Friday, June 27, 2008

By Sally Kalson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


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14 July 2008

From New Scientist Print Edition

ONE of "the most contaminated places on Earth" will only get dirtier if the US government doesn't get its act together - clean-up plans are already 19 years behind schedule and not due for completion until 2050.

More than 210 million litres of radioactive and chemical waste are stored in 177 ( Read more... )

A Case Study in Conservative Mendacity
by: Daniel De Groot
Sun Jul 06, 2008 at 16:15
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I noted last night that a supply of uranium from Iraq had been successfully moved to Montreal in secrecy.

If you check into this, you’ll quickly find that the uranium a) was not ( Read more... )

Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:37pm BST

By Kristin Roberts - Analysis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could set Tehran's program back years but would raise the risk of retaliation against American troops in the region and of driving Iran to work even harder to make atomic weapons, U.S. experts and officials say.

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Amid disclosures of an Israeli dummy run for an air offensive against Iran's nuclear installations, much of the Western media recycle the lines that Tehran is actively pursuing nuclear weapons and that it has amassed "weapons-grade" enriched uranium. The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has never said this, ( Read more... )

Published: 06.17.08, 19:22 / Israel News

There is no evidence Syria has the skilled personnel or the fuel to operate a large-scale nuclear facility, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog said in remarks aired on Tuesday.

"We have no evidence that Syria has the human resources that would allow it to carry out a large nuclear programme. We do ( Read more... )

Egypt Returns Radioactive Shipment to Israel   Readers Number : 138
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A criminal idea

Attacking other countries to stop them acquiring nuclear weapons repudiates a key principle of international law

James K Galbraith
James K Galbraith is a senior scholar with the Levy Economics Institute, and chair of the board of Economists for Peace and Security, an international association of professional economists.

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