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http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/03/23/nuclear-threat-a-clear-and-present-danger
Nuclear threat a clear and present danger
By Jessica Murphy ,Parliamentary Bureau
First posted: Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:00 AM MDT
OTTAWA - Threats of a Cold War nuclear attack sparked by aggression between the Yanks and Ruskies are 20 years behind us. But the world is now wrestling with a different nuclear threat - there's enough highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium lying around to produce more than 100,000 nuclear weapons, and not all of it is properly secured.
So this week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join over 50 world leaders and UN, International Atomic Energy Agency and European Union representatives in Seoul, South Korea, for the second Nuclear Security Summit aimed at tackling that very murky threat.
It's not just about securing the stockpiles of weapons in nuclear states - the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, Israel, China, Pakistan and India - against terrorists. It's also about facing and fixing the myriad security gaps in the nuclear power industry at large.
"There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together," says Matthew Bunn, a nuclear security expert with Harvard University.
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Nuclear threat a clear and present danger
By Jessica Murphy ,Parliamentary Bureau
First posted: Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:00 AM MDT
OTTAWA - Threats of a Cold War nuclear attack sparked by aggression between the Yanks and Ruskies are 20 years behind us. But the world is now wrestling with a different nuclear threat - there's enough highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium lying around to produce more than 100,000 nuclear weapons, and not all of it is properly secured.
So this week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join over 50 world leaders and UN, International Atomic Energy Agency and European Union representatives in Seoul, South Korea, for the second Nuclear Security Summit aimed at tackling that very murky threat.
It's not just about securing the stockpiles of weapons in nuclear states - the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, Israel, China, Pakistan and India - against terrorists. It's also about facing and fixing the myriad security gaps in the nuclear power industry at large.
"There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together," says Matthew Bunn, a nuclear security expert with Harvard University.
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"There is more (weapons grade) material on civilian sites than all weapons stockpiles put together" [View all]
bananas
Mar 2012
OP
DU, white phosporous and who can imagine what other nightmares were unleashed in Fallujah. nt
Mnemosyne
Mar 2012
#6
Weapons grade Uranium... 57,000 pounds of it come out of each coal plant each year
txlibdem
Mar 2012
#14
Why do you continue to spread what you know is deliberate nuclear industry propaganda?
kristopher
Mar 2012
#16
As far as I can tell, the OP concerns the possibility that significant quantities of HEU
struggle4progress
Mar 2012
#27
How long are you going to pretend that enrichment isn't a right of reactor ownership?
kristopher
Apr 2012
#34