An official in Iran’s nuclear program says Tehran has produced its first nuclear fuel pellets for use in a nuclear reactor currently under construction.
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, said Saturday there would be enough enriched uranium pellets by September of 2008 to power the 40 megawatt Arak research reactor.
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One might ask why it is important to understand the relation between the Leftist/Marxist/Islamist Alliance and the Emerging Movement among Churches and Mosques. It is because it indicates the movement of a historically conservative church and other organizations into the fold. These Emerging Church and Mosque Movements are the elephants in the pew. The Radical [...]

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But palladium defied the known physics and proved scientists wrong. Palladium absorbs 900 times its own volume worth of deuterium. When driven by an electric current, the heavily packed deuterium atoms within palladium, with the catalyst of the palladium crystal lattice, was able to fuse and release huge amount of energy. The experiments were done, [...]

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“We should be technologically prepared to produce a nuclear device,” said the general. He added, “No country can feel safe if it doesn’t develop technology that enables it to defend itself when necessary.”
Barros Moreira said that Brazil’s resources made it a “target” for foreign aggression. “The world lacks water, energy, food and minerals,” he said. [...]

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Moscow’s decision to give Beijing access to Russian-made RD-93 jet engines will allow China’s Chengdu FC-1 Fierce Dragon (Xiaolong) to compete for sales against Lockheed Martin and MiG fighters, analysts said.
Richard Fisher, vice president of the Washington-based International Assessment and Strategy Center, said this will place new pressure on the MiG Corp., “which will now [...]

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Since the end of the Cold War, most of the world’s militaries have downsized. But in recent years, a few countries have been bulking up. In this week’s List, FP takes a look at the countries that are going large while everyone else is slimming down.
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In a few decades China may indeed overtake America as the world’s top economic power. Will Britons who make the effort to learn its language be rewarded with better careers? Barring some kind of sea change in global language learning, the answer will almost always be no.
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Inspired by neighbouring China, North Korea initiated economic reforms in 2002. Most wage and price controls were dropped and the market was opened to some private commerce. After five years of reform, the new wealth has gravitated mainly to the city’s privileged class.
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Actually, the rating for “1913 Intel” is genius.
My friend Beth stumbled across a Web site that ranks the readability of blogs. What level of education is required to understand your favorite blog? Type in the URL here, and voilà! It tells you the reading level. The site actually rates any Web site, not just blogs. [...]

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Peculiar doctoral theses have supposedly helped Russian politicians improve their images. A paper by President Putin raises questions.
A U.S. analyst demonstrated that sections of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dissertation on “Strategic Planning of the Renewal of the Minerals-Raw Materials Base of the Region in Conditions of the Formation of Market Relations” were lifted wholesale from [...]

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A mounting number of studies are coming to some surprising conclusions about the dangers of nuclear radiation. It might not be as deadly as is widely believed. By Matthias Schulz more…

Radiation Insurance: Chernobyl Gets $507-Million Pledge to Reseal Reactor

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The comet 17P/Holmes has astronomers around the world scratching their heads in confusion. The heavenly body just keeps getting bigger — and is now twice the diameter of our sun.
Rather than shrinking as it gets further from the sun as most comets do, this one just keeps getting bigger and brighter. At the beginning of [...]

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The European Commission in Brussels wants to protect European citizens even more effectively against danger and disease. Soon there will be a well-intended — but mostly completely unnecessary — regulation for every aspect of life. By Hans-Jürgen Schlamp and Markus Verbeet in Brussels more…

SPIEGEL 360: Our Full Coverage of the European Union

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Russia is taking advantage of its energy exports and the European Union’s lack of unity to influence the bloc’s member states in their foreign policies, a recent report says. “While EU leaders believe that peace and stability are built through interdependence, Russia’s leaders are working to create a situation where the EU needs Russia [...]

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TERRORIST group Hezbollah is poised to launch bloody reprisals in Britain for any Western attack on Iran, a former intelligence chief has warned.
Richard Kemp, who was senior adviser on terrorism to Tony Blair, said the Iranian-backed group had established sleeper cells in this country to carry out revenge attacks.
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Hezbollah’s General Secretary Sayed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a fiery and tantamount speech on Sunday November 11/07 in which he vows to maintain his party’s Military Might, challenged the whole free world, the UN resolutions, the majority of the Lebanese people, and evilly refused to disarm. His speech was seen by many observers as an [...]

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Over the past decade, U.S. intentions have not been realized anywhere America has tried to exert influence.
There remains a consensus among both leading Democrats and Republicans that their homeland is in danger; that America is well served by its financial and military support of unreliable and repugnant regimes; and that continued projection of U.S. values [...]

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Iran slams Mideast conference participants
Africasia, UK - 4 hours ago
Israel was an ally of the imperial regime of shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, developing close military and economic ties with Iran until his overthrow in the …
Ahmadinejad says Annapolis ‘useless’ Jerusalem Post
Ahmadinejad Warns Participants in Mideast Peace Conference Fars News Agency
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At the end of the summer, Russia dictator Vladimir Putin traveled to Australia to meet with Prime Minister John Howard, a close ally of U.S. President George Bush, in order to beg for a deal allowing Russia to purchase “yellowcake” uranium from Oz’s vast brick road of the stuff to fuel Russia’s nuclear reactors. Rich [...]

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The report informs us that the base of their military’s “star” combat unit is the People’s Red Army No. 51 Corps, headquartered in Henan Province. That is where DF5 and DF5A intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) targeting the United States are deployed.
The trajectory of these ICBMs would be through the space of Russia and the Arctic [...]

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Viewed warily by some Russians as a cross between the Soviet-era Konsomol and Germany’s Hitler Youth, ostensibly Nashi is only a movement to promote “positive role models” for young Russians, but those who sign up are fed an aggressively patriotic ideology and anti-Western agenda.
Members go on summer camps where they are urged to procreate to [...]

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