Sent to China, and various Muslim countries.so-called Allies.
B <http://tinyurl.com/3umg3gy> http://tinyurl.com/3umg3gy The U.S. Is Unable To Account For 36k Pounds Of Weapons Grade Uranium And Plutonium Robert Johnson|September 15, 2011| 1,146|12 <http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-15/politics/30158991_1_nrc-glob al-threat-reduction-initiative-grade-uranium-and-plutonium#comments> * <http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4e721a09eab8eaad3800001b/plutonium .jpg> Handling plutonium Handling plutonium (DOE) Under special nuclear cooperation agreements, the United States sent 38,580 pounds of enriched uranium and plutonium to more than two-dozen foreign agencies and is unable to account for 36,000 pounds of the material. The Government Accountability Office report <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11920.pdf> says these 27 cooperation agreements, set up to facilitate cross border research, have no accountability and the U.S. has no way to enforce control. Because there is no reporting process in place, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been visiting nuclear storage sites overseas when permitted, but has not regularly visited countries with the greatest risk of proliferation. >From the visits conducted through 1994 to 2010 U.S. teams learned countries met international security guidelines only 50 percent of the time. Trying to pin down the missing 36,000 pounds of material the NRC and the Department of Energy (DOE) have made inventory agreements with five U.S. partners, but the other 22 have refused. The DOE has tried to bring back much of the material to the states, but aside from failing to definitively find it, the agency is limited by its own Global Threat Reduction Initiative which won't allow it. <http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11920.pdf> Check out the full report here > Read more: <http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-15/politics/30158991_1_nrc-glob al-threat-reduction-initiative-grade-uranium-and-plutonium#ixzz1Y5eodBDe> http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-09-15/politics/30158991_1_nrc-globa l-threat-reduction-initiative-grade-uranium-and-plutonium#ixzz1Y5eodBDe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
