Nuclear waste ship 'near Australia'

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By Peter Williams
April 01, 2005
From: AAP
A SHIP carrying dangerous nuclear waste from France was sailing off Australia today en route to the Pacific, the environmental group Greenpeace said today.

The Pacific Sandpiper, carrying the 10th return shipment of nuclear material between France and Japan since they began in 1995, should be south of Tasmania and entering the Tasman Sea as early as this weekend, according to Greenpeace.
"The release of even a small fraction of this cargo from either an accident or a deliberate attack could lead to an environmental and public health catastrophe," Greenpeace campaign manager Cindy Baxter said.

The waste from plutonium reprocessing at a plant in La Hague, France, using Japanese irradiated fuel, is transported from the port of Cherbourg by Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL).
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12721456-29277,00.html

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1. Thanks did you see this

"primary chemicals of concern."

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2634824

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2. A friend of mine lost her young husband to brain cancer

He worked at Fermi Lab as a mantaince man, cleaned up lots of stuff. The two little boys will miss their dad. :cry:

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5. seemslikeadream.....Get this....Access Denied?

The RHIC is sited at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

http://www.bnl.gov/RHIC :banghead:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4357613.stm

Thursday, 17 March, 2005

A fireball created in a US
particle accelerator has the
characteristics of a black hole, a
physicist has said.

It was generated at the
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC) in New York, US, which
smashes beams of gold nuclei
together at near light speeds.

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3. Don't most nuclear countries dump their waste in the ocean?

Or has that practice been halted. I know for the longest time countries like France, England, Russia, China, etc. used to load up their radioactive waste into fifty five gallon stainless steel drums and dump them into the ocean. Now it will take quite a few years for stainless steel to break down but eventually it will and then every life form in the area will be contaminated. They have been doing this since the fifties...:scared: Once the oceans become toxic all life on earth will suffer...

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4. What is IceCube?

IceCube is a one-cubic-kilometer international high-energy neutrino
observatory being built and installed in the clear deep ice below
the South Pole Station.

http://icecube.wisc.edu/what_is_icecube/overview/

black holes :eyes: dark matter :crazy:

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6. God particle

Higgs boson, known as the....
God particle because of its postulated commanding role in
explaining how subatomic particles interact with each other.

LHC is nearing completion in the 27-kilometer 17 miles circumference
tunnel originally created for CERN's Large Electron Positron collider.
When completed in 2007, LHC will be the largest such device on Earth.
It will slam protons one type of hadron particle together with an
energy "seven times that of the largest such collider running now, the
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Tevatron, outside Chicago,"


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223140133.htm

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7. $3 billion and change. The goal: to find one lousy subatomic particle

The physics lab that brought you the Web is reinventing the Internet. Get ready for the atom-smashing, supercomputing, 5-gigabits-per-second Grid Economy.

By Richard Martin

200 feet underground, a proton does 17-mile laps at nearly the speed of light. Guided by powerful magnets, it zooms through a narrow, circular tunnel that straddles the Switzerland-France border. Then a tiny adjustment in the magnetic field throws the proton into the path of another particle beam traveling just as fast in the opposite direction. Everything goes kerflooey.

This will happen 10 million times a second inside the Atlas detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider now under construction at CERN, the famed European particle physics lab outside Geneva. When the LHC is finished in 2007, it will be the largest accelerator in the world. Massive superconducting magnets cooled to near absolute zero by liquid helium will bend 20 micron-wide beams of protons into precise trajectories and crash them into each other.


Photo by Maximilien Brice/©CERN
The Large Hadron Collider, under construction at CERN, is targeting the elusive Higgs boson. But crashing protons is the easy part.


Hadrons are a class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons. When they collide, they explode into dozens of other particles, even more infinitesimal and fleeting. Atlas, five stories high and one of the most complex experimental apparatuses ever built, is designed to see them all.

The cost: $3 billion and change. The goal: to find one lousy subatomic particle.

Specifically, the Higgs boson, the most elusive speck of matter in the universe. Often called the God particle, it's supposed to be the key to explaining why matter has mass. Physicists believe that Higgs particles generate a kind of soupy ether through which other particles move, picking up drag that translates into mass on the macroscopic scale. The Higgs is the cornerstone of 21st-century physics; it simply has to be there, otherwise the standard model of the universe collapses.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/grid.html?tw=wn_tophead_6

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8. Mass giver

Dr Renton said he hoped that once the large hadron collider was
up and running in 2007, the Higgs boson would be detected
within a year or two. :shrug:
....
It is also possible the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
outside Chicago, US, could make the discovery. :popcorn:

....
Researchers there are hopeful they can secure enough data to
prove the Higgs' existence before the LHC comes online. :banghead:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3546973.stm



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9. Fermi Buffalo?

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10. Thank~U~seemslikeadream

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11. sattahipdeep very strange indeed!

I was out in my yard and I believe that same butterfly (moth)? landed on my arm just a short time before you posted that picture. :wow:


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