AW: Serbian nuclear fuel, facts

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Ted Rockwell

Gesendet: Montag, 26. August 2002 17:58

An: Franz Schoenhofer; RADSAFE

Betreff: RE: Serbian nuclear fuel





> Commenting on

things unknown and without scientific evidence?



Come on, Franz, get off it.  It was reported that the fuel was weapons grade

and that it was a research reactor.  That is quite enough information to

support my statement that it wasn't like spent fuel from power plants. But

even all that was peripheral to the point I made--so peripheral I only put

it in to forestall a rebuttal that the two fuels were dissimilar.



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Ted,



No I did not get off it, I tried to find out more information. "It was

reported......." It was reported not only in Austrian, but also German

newspapers that it was fuel from a Yugoslav nuclear power plant. The only

"Yugoslav NPP" ever was Krsko, which is after the breakup of Yugoslavia a

Slovenian NPP, in which Croatia has a share and which never was and is not

run with "weapons grade" fuel or do you know any commercial nuclear power

plant using HEU - which in my opinion is not necessarily identical with

"weapons grade" fuel. So far for your trust into "it was reported". When

reading newspaper reports I first start my brain to figure out, whether the

news might be reasonable.



I send an article about the former Yugoslav weapons program. I am not very

convinced that it is correct, especially I do not believe, that the Sovjet

Union which was so opposed to the Tito regime would have provided the same

regime with highly enriched uranium and heavy water. I have my doubts about

the claimed Norwegian attempts to produce plutonium and to support

Yugoslavia to build a plutonium factory. At least it is an interesting

article, which might shed some light on the fact, that fresh, highly

enriched uranium fuel might have been present at Vinca. These informations

have been gathered by watching the worldatom website of the IAEA, which I

highly recommend. They have a press service (daily press review), which

gives very valuable links and summaries of news articles.



Franz





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