Russia Reports Small Losses of Nuclear Materials
Official Gosatomnadzor head Yuri Vishnyevsky says traces of weapons and reactor-grade nuclear material have vanished from facilities. He notes some cases involve grams of weapons-grade material or kilograms of uranium used in power plants, mainly linked to fuel fabrication at Elektrostal and Novosibirsk plants.
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Moscow
Russia
Nuclear Regulatory Agency
Yuri Vishnyevsky
Gosatomnadzor
Elektrostal
Novosibirsk
Siberia
Vishnyevsky
Nuclear material missing and security concerns rise in Russia
The article notes missing nuclear material with no details given, cites IAEA lists of two uranium thefts from Elektrostat in 1994 and 1995 seized by Russian police, and a 1994 400 gram plutonium seizure in Germany. It discusses the risk of reactor-grade uranium and possible enrichment, Russia's security funding needs, terrorism fears after a Moscow theater attack, and a plan for higher security costs. It also mentions a Russian expedition finding a Soviet submarine K-27 and K-254 waste sites in the Kara Sea with stable radiation readings and Arc tic dumping concerns.
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International Atomic Energy Agency
Elektrostat
Germany
Moscow
Iraq
Russia
Soviet Union
Chechnya
Vishnyevsky
Duma
Kara Sea
Bellona
Mikhail Faleyev
Interfax
Faleyev
Arctic
Novaya Zemlya Archipelago
Army rescues bishop from rebels in Colombia
Colombian soldiers freed Bishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez and Rev Desiderio Orjuela who were kidnapped north of Bogota. One insurgent was killed and another captured. tips from residents aided the operation near El Penal. A $37000 reward had been offered for information.
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Colombia
Jorge Enrique Jimenez
Latin American Bishops Conference
Desiderio Orjuela
Jimenez
Sandra Gomez
Martha Lucia Ramirez
John Paul II
Ramirez
el Penal
Orjuela
Pacho
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC
Ingrid Betancourt
Bishops Conference
Debate over GM food delays Zambian relief effort
In Zambia a three month stalemate over GM food aid hampers hunger relief. WFP official Richard Ragan says 2.9 million Zambians face possible starvation as the rainy season approaches and replaces 20,000 tons of U S corn with non GM varieties.
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South Africa
World Food Program
Richard Ragan
WFP
Zambia
United States
U.N
Funeral for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mashhour draws 20000 mourners
Tens of thousands of supporters gathered at Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo to mourn Mustafa Mashhour, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supreme guide who died at 81 after a stroke. The leadership postponed choosing a successor as policemen guarded the funeral.
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Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood
Mustafa Mashhour
Brotherhood
Rabia al-Adawiya
Mashhour
Hope and Allegiance
National Democratic Party
Mamoun el-Hodeiby
el-Hodeiby
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