Adamov's legacy or the nuclear blackmail?

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http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/355/15590_adamov.html

Why do US authorities need Russian former Minister for Nuclear Power, Yevgeny Adamov?

Russia's former Minister for Nuclear Power, Yevgeny Adamov, is currently staying in a Swiss jail, waiting for his extradition to the USA. The living carrier of Russian nuclear secrets is likely to find himself in the hands of curious US authorities, which accuse the minister of embezzling nine million dollars. Isn't it a cheap price to pay for the Russian minister, albeit a former one? Adamov might face more serious charges in Russia. He can be accused of disrupting an international agreement, causing Russia's default on its obligations, or losing many billions of dollars.

Russian authorities have managed to take certain measures, though. Russia's Office of the Prosecutor General accused Adamov of fraud and power abuse. A Moscow court authorized the arrest of the former minister afterwards. The government of the Swiss city of Bern will have to decide, which inquiry for Adamov's extradition is to be executed, the Russian or the American one. Details of Russian accusations against Adamov are not know yet. It transpired, though, that one of Adamov's accomplices was summoned to the Office of the Prosecutor General. It was an old partner of the former minister, Vyacheslav Pismenniy - the former director of the Trinity Institute for Innovative and Thermonuclear Research of the Russian Nuclear Power Industry, Dni.Ru wrote.

According to the results of the investigation of Adamov's activities (the investigation was conducted under the aegis of the State Duma's Anti-Corruption Committee), Mr. Pismenniy acts as one of Adamov's closest partners in a variety of shady operations. The HEU-LEU contract stands out among those operations.

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The HEU-LEU contract, which also carries an informal title - Megatons to Megawatts - is a joint US-Russian project for the processing of 500 tons of military uranium extracted from about 20,000 Russian nuclear warheads. The average enrichment of the uranium is 90 percent, isotope 235, high-enrichment uranium (HEU), is to be processed in the low-enrichment uranium (LEU) that is used as fuel for nuclear power plants. The contract was launched in 1993; it embraces the period of 20 years.

The contract had a rather ambiguous reaction in Russia. The idea of military uranium, the basis of Russia's nuclear power, being handed over to the "likeliest enemy," contradicts to beliefs of the majority of patriotic Russian citizens. Certain paragraphs of the contract raise criticism even among those experts, who believe that the whole project or certain aspects of it are not profitable to Russia.

The uranium delivery scheme took Russia's interests into consideration to a certain extent. Americans pay for the low-enrichment uranium (LEU) received from high-enrichment uranium (HEU) partially in cash, whereas the so-called natural constituent (NC) is returned to Russia. The natural constituent is purified natural uranium, which can be used both in space industry and for the production of military uranium, in order to receive the low-enrichment uranium in the end. Russia receives the natural constituent in the volume that is considered necessary during the production of the low-enrichment uranium from it. According to one of the former ministers for nuclear power, Viktor Mikhailov, Russia receives over 9,000 tons of the natural constituent a year, as terms of the contract stipulate. A certain part of the natural constituent is used for diluting the military uranium within the scope of the HEU-LEU contract. The rest of the material is sold, and the profit is transferred to the Russian budget.

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And Bush wants him in our jails now!!! Fascinating guy!!!

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1. Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi nuke'

Drawing uncovered of 'Nazi nuke'

The diagram appears in an undated report about nuclear weapons work in Nazi Germany


Historians working in Germany and the US claim to have found a 60-year-old diagram showing a Nazi nuclear bomb.
It is the only known drawing of a "nuke" made by Nazi experts and appears in a report held by a private archive.

The researchers who brought it to light say the drawing is a rough schematic and does not imply the Nazis built, or were close to building, an atomic bomb.

But a detail in the report hints some Nazi scientists may have been closer to that goal than was previously believed.


The report containing the diagram is undated, but the researchers claim the evidence points to it being produced immediately after the end of the war in Europe. It deals with the work of German nuclear scientists during the war and lacks a title page, so there is no evidence of who composed it.

One historian behind the discovery, Rainer Karlsch, caused a storm of controversy earlier this year when he claimed to have uncovered evidence that the Nazis successfully tested a primitive nuclear device in the last days of WWII. A number of historians rejected the claim.

The drawing is published in an article written for Physics World magazine by Karlsch and Mark Walker, professor of history at Union College in Schenectady, US. >>>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4598955.stm

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2. Now why would Bush & Company want this guy???

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