Nuclear watchdog to combat terrorist threat

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/3107404/Nuclear-watchdog-to-combat-terrorist-threat.html

Nuclear watchdog to combat terrorist threat
An international watchdog aiming to prevent the theft from nuclear sites of material that could be used in terrorist attacks has been launched.

By Jon Swaine
Last Updated: 8:02AM BST 30 Sep 2008

The World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), which will be based in Vienna, Austria, will seek to prevent the material falling into the wrong hands.

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Internationally there are about 200 reports of radioactive material going astray every year, and many more incidents involving break-ins. Last November saw a break-in at the Pelindaba nuclear site in South Africa, where enough enriched uranium to make several nuclear bombs is stored.

The South African government said that the intruders, who were in two teams, "had prior knowledge of the electronic security systems" and were "technically sophisticated".

There is particular concern among western governments regarding the security of materials that were used to make atomic bombs in former Soviet republics.

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[NNadir]

1. What nuclear terrorist threat? Have you suddenly discovered an actual example or are you just

endlessly repeating Cheney rhetoric mindlessly and endlessly?

Never mind, I already know the answer to that question.

We've heard endless blather about "dirty bombs" and terrorist nuclear weapons from people who can't produce an actual example. Not one. Zero.

The number of people killed by imagined or real nuclear terrorism is zero.

The number of people killed by dangerous fossil fuel terrorism - about which you couldn't care less - is not zero.