"Ukraine transports uranium to Russia" by Desmond Butler, Associated Press / January 1, 2011
WASHINGTON — In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs.
This week’s removal of more than 110 pounds of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, to get rid of all of his country’s highly enriched uranium by April 2012. The material will be blended down in Russia, rendering it useless for bomb making.
Details of the operation were provided by the National Nuclear Security Administration.
A nuclear security summit deal also has the United States building a $25 million “neutron source facility’’ nuclear research project for Ukraine, the administration said.
I'm glad American taxpayers have the spare change.
The facility will be able to produce 50 types of medical isotopes, using only low-enriched uranium....
But Iran can not have one.
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Also see: Ukraine will open Chernobyl site to tours
The dream vacation.
"Rights group finds abuse of migrants by Ukraine; Urges EU nations to suspend pact on deportations" by Maria Danilova, Associated Press / December 17, 2010
KIEV —Migrants and asylum seekers caught in Ukraine en route to the EU or sent back to Ukraine through a deportation program with the EU risk severe abuse that sometimes amounts to torture, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday.
Boris Marchenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian Border Guard Service, said the agency will conduct a thorough investigation based on the report, but he called Human Rights Watch findings “subjective and one-sided.’’
Rights groups and asylum seekers contend that security forces and smugglers are in cahoots, with border guards taking kickbacks or even actively participating in smuggling, then abusing migrants once they are sent back.
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Maybe not if your papers are no in order.
