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Tons of uranium missing from Libyan site, IAEA tells member states
- llsf 4y ago2.5t of Uranium oxide concentrate represents 60 gallons in volume, so a 1.43 barrel. Even with some insulation, that is not a huge volume given the uranium oxide density.
- King-Aaron 4y agoAssuming this is the only missing uranium across who knows how many sites during who knows what kind of timeframe.
- j-bos 4y agoThat's enough for 1.21 jigawatts of power!
- slater 4y agofound it! https://twitter.com/LibyaReview/status/1636395102691106817 https://twitter.com/LibyaReview/status/1636395102691106817
- sacrosancty 4y ago[dead]
- einpoklum 4y agoIf that's true, I'm not sure I'm a lot less worried considering how Libya stores its Uranium :-(
- perihelions 4y agoThe statement from the side responsible for this video is remarkable: - "Unfortunately, the agency did not provide those needs, which we are lacking amid the embargo on the [Eastern] Libyan Army," Mahjoub said. He claimed that as a result, security personnel were stationed further away to ensure they were not dangerously close to the hazardous material." - "Mahjoub said the missing drums were recovered near the borders with Chad. He suggested that they were stolen by Chadian forces who mistook them for ammunition or weapons, then abandoned them when they realized the drums were of little use." - "A video shared with the statement showed what appeared to be a security personnel counting the purportedly retrieved drums. Except, 18 drums were counted, rather than the 10 mentioned both by the IAEA and Mahjoub." https://www.dw.com/en/libya-eastern-army-claims-tons-of-missing-uranium-recovered/a-65003281 https://www.dw.com/en/libya-eastern-army-claims-tons-of-miss... ("Libya eastern army claims tons of missing uranium recovered")
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- einpoklum 4y ago[flagged]
- rafram 4y agoQaddafi was not a serious pan-Africanist, and the rest of Africa knew that. He was sometimes an Arab nationalist, sometimes an Islamic nationalist, sometimes an African nationalist, sometimes a socialist, and his only consistent ideological position was military dictatorship. He provided a venue for the founding of the AU, but both it and its predecessor organization are/were based in Ethiopia. The US intervention in Libya didn’t go very well, but it’s silly to pretend that Qaddafi was a hero by any measure.
- simple-thoughts 4y agoWhich policy killed more Libyans - Obama’s or Qaddafi’s? Considering many people consider Obama a hero, the bar is quite low to jump.
- mjfl 4y agoat least there weren't slave markets in Libya while he was a dictator....
- pokepim 4y ago[dead]
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoNo he just had his own harem of literal sex slaves. Who were abducted as children and tortured into sexual servitude.
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- RobLach 4y agoIsn't this the plot to Back to the Future?
- type0 4y agoI'm fairly certain that Flux Capacitor wont run on Uranium, it needs Plutonium to work
- akiselev 4y agoThat’s enough for less than 17 kilograms of enriched U235 assuming a modern high efficiency gaseous centrifuge. That amount is far more useful for making some depleted uranium bullets than some proliferation risk
- baybal2 4y agoBut it will be enough for 50kg of plutonium even with most primitive reactor
- zoklet-enjoyer 4y agoNATO really fucked up on this
- sacnoradhq 4y agoWhy is this important to HN? And it's not U, it's not HEU.. it's unrefined uranium ore. Nothingburger "story".
- 0xDEF 4y ago>Why is this important to HN? Fear mongering is now in the interest of Big VC. A lot of VC is tied to crypto. The crypto community want more people to be scared and lose faith in the established world order and US dollar hegemony. They hope that will make people buy crypto.
- password4321 4y agoThis is how three letter agencies get the materials needed for plausible deniability in future operations.
- webprofusion 4y agoHas nobody seen Back to the Future?
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoWell, lets take north korea, it certainly is obvious by now that having a nuke stops getting bullied by the big players of the great game. Thoroughly rational strategy to gain them yourself.
- villgax 4y agoFinally an IRL Mission Impossible timeline
- spants 4y agohttps://zzzchan.xyz/x/thread/1384.html https://zzzchan.xyz/x/thread/1384.html scary :-)
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