Police hunt launched after uranium stolen in India

[maddezmom]

RANCHI, India (AFP) - A container packed with radioactive material has been stolen from a fortified research facility in eastern India, prompting a major hunt and fears of contamination, officials said.

"It carries uranium and radiation and could have an adverse effect in an area of 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mile)," Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Khoda warned.

Khoda said the uranium was stolen nearly three weeks ago after being moved to a research site at the densely-populated town of Rajrappa from a federal atomic facility near Mumbai.

The United States and India this month signed a landmark atomic energy deal to give India access to western technology and nuclear fuel, despite warnings from critics that demand tighter security measures to prevent proliferation.

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061223/wl_sthasia_afp/indianuclearpoliticscrime

[BR_Parkway]

1. Can anyone point to one thing that Shrub has done that didn't turn

to crap? At this point, I'd take the smallest thing.

[maddezmom]

2. he's pardoned a couple of Turkeys

:shrug:

[Ian David]

7. The "Do Not Call List" has worked pretty well.

Then again, all that data probably also went into The NSA Wiretap Database.

[Deja Q]

14. Well the NSA can buy all they want from telemarketer sleaze

It's nice to not have calls from the sleaze.

Besides, a loophole exists allowing companies you've already dealt with the ability to still call.

[liberal N proud]

3. Surprise! - Right after the bu$h turns over nuclear technology...

Hummmmm?

[azurnoir]

4. Just in time for the Holiday Terra' rush

a couple righty blogs have been strumpeting the "terror attacks likely", meme this week.

[Ian David]

5. Did they leave a big pile of mangoes behind where the Uranium used to be? n/t

[Tin Man]

8. LOL - good one!

:rofl:

[Ian David]

6. You know why it's taken three weeks to find it, don't you?

The security Operations Call Center was outsourced, and that's how long it took for them to find a Customer Service Supervisor that could authorize dispatching the cops.

[Tin Man]

9. You're on a roll tonight!

:rofl: :rofl:

[fujiyama]

11. OMG!

I have to admit that was pretty good...

I can't tell ya how many times I've heard "Let me escalate this to me supervisor..." on the phone with Indian service reps.

[Tin Man]

10. The article indicates India has a history of "misplacing" uranium

...so why again are we sharing our nuclear technology with them?

But on the bright side... when the dirty bomb attack comes, at least our refugees will have delicious mangos to enjoy.

[Porcupine]

12. Oh C'mon uranium is perfectly safe to have around.....

and electrical power reactors aren't a problem. A DU'er regularly assures us that nuclear power is safer than coal and new reactors should be built in nations like Nigeria as well as in India.

You can't believe there's any danger associated with this?
:sarcasm:

[Ian David]

13. Coal pollution kills people slowly, a little bit at a time.

Nuclear accidents just kill more people quickly over a very short period of time.

I'll pull some fake numbers out of the air and say that coal generating plants kill 2 million people an average of 5 years pre-maturely, but a nuclear accident may kill only 100,000 people an average of 50 years prematurely.