Re: Secret shipment at Y-12

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I wonder how much uraninum hexafluoride and how much

was equipment.



--- Gerry Blackwood <gpblackwood@justice.com> wrote:

> Note: Secret Shipment? Tons? Lets see, have presser

> and its a

> "Secret Shipment". Hexafloride, some components for

> centrifuges

> and some guidance sets which I doubt went to

> oakridge..... Got to

> love the press....Gerry.

> ---------------------------------

> 

> 

> Secret shipment at Y-12

> Libyan nuclear material airlifted to Oak Ridge as

> gesture by

> Gadhafi

> 

> By FRANK MUNGER AND RICHARD POWELSON,

> munger@knews.com

> _powelsonr@shns.com

> January 28, 2004

> 

>

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_2609863,00.html

> 

> Tons of nuclear material and sensitive equipment

> were airlifted

> out of Libya Monday night and brought to a

> government facility in

> Oak Ridge, officials confirmed Tuesday - hours after

> the secret

> shipment had reached its destination. 

> 

> . . .

> "On the flight was UF6 - uranium hexafluoride -

> which is used for

> feedstock to enrich uranium," he said. "Also

> included on the

> flight were centrifuge parts, which are used to

> enrich uranium

> (for weapons use). Finally, the shipment contains

> ballistic

> missile guidance sets for longer-range missiles,

> which Libya has

> voluntarily agreed to eliminate." 

> . . .



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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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