Topaz Posted December 27, 2011 Report Posted December 27, 2011 It was suppose to be a secret, but, its out now and I can understand for the secrecy, but, why would any country shipped this cargo to any other country? Down the road many decades, this could come back and bite Canada were the sun don`t shine, since the US is the ONLY country in the world to use the nuke. We don`t know what the relations between the two countries will be or how the leaders will react to a crisis,I don`t think Harper thought this one out. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-quietly-shipping-bomb-grade-uranium-u-says-113006238.html Quote
prairiechickin Posted December 27, 2011 Report Posted December 27, 2011 Sorry to shock you, but we've been shipping this stuff back and forth since World War Two. Most, if not all, the enriched uranium used in the Manhattan project came from Great Bear Lake via Chalk River south to the secret facility in Tennessee. New finds in Saskatchewan and northern Ontario fed most of the arms build-up, the US doesn't have any really good domestic supplies of uranium. Because we had the raw materials, we got to join Britain and the US during the War and share in lots of early technology, hence Chalk River was a world leader in processing uranium into a witch's brew of downstream products, one of which is bomb-grade material. So far so good, but you can see why they don't hold public hearings when they ship this stuff around. Quote
DogOnPorch Posted December 27, 2011 Report Posted December 27, 2011 Better not 'tell' Topaz about the DEW and Pine Tree Lines during the Cold War. Quote Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris.
William Ashley Posted January 25, 2012 Report Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) It was suppose to be a secret, but, its out now and I can understand for the secrecy, but, why would any country shipped this cargo to any other country? Down the road many decades, this could come back and bite Canada were the sun don`t shine, since the US is the ONLY country in the world to use the nuke. We don`t know what the relations between the two countries will be or how the leaders will react to a crisis,I don`t think Harper thought this one out. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-quietly-shipping-bomb-grade-uranium-u-says-113006238.html This have anything to do with the Bruce Nuclear plant beingshiped over lake Huron? http://www.canada.com/technology/Controversial+nuclear+shipping+plan+remains+hold/5889128/story.html secret. come on man how obvious can you be? Edited January 25, 2012 by William Ashley Quote I was here.
William Ashley Posted January 25, 2012 Report Posted January 25, 2012 (edited) Yeah I live like a km from an old uranium mine no one knows about. It actually is very close to the forward operating base of the old dewline at Armstrong area. and a few other shipment points for Dew Supplies, I'm not too far from one of the southern stations. The sites were closed long ago.. there is of course a history to these areas,you can't find ANY info on them online though, you really need to delve to figure anything out. Luckily if the story is true I was with one of the CO's one day while I was inquring about it.. but this is all hearsay. None the less the US transports nukes over the us all the time I don't see why americans are complaining about it. I would think the natives would be happy to see this leave home. Edited January 25, 2012 by William Ashley Quote I was here.
Guest Peeves Posted February 20, 2012 Report Posted February 20, 2012 It was suppose to be a secret, but, its out now and I can understand for the secrecy, but, why would any country shipped this cargo to any other country? Down the road many decades, this could come back and bite Canada were the sun don`t shine, since the US is the ONLY country in the world to use the nuke. We don`t know what the relations between the two countries will be or how the leaders will react to a crisis,I don`t think Harper thought this one out. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/canada-quietly-shipping-bomb-grade-uranium-u-says-113006238.html WOW! WwwwwWhat a Bulletin! What a newsbreak a bloody bulletin no less. Crikey next thing ya know we'll be sellin those yanks oil and takin in their deserters! Careful the RCMP will be monitoring you with black helicopters. Btw others have exploded nukes. The US, an ally, used a couple on an enemy that attacked them and in so doing arguably saved lives on both sides. Quote
Guest Peeves Posted February 20, 2012 Report Posted February 20, 2012 It's secretive mainly so boogeymen can't steal it or attack it and cause radiation exposure. Otherwise it is secure. "There's a greater risk in the general public knowing, because then the bad guys would know as well." As for non-theft incidents, like possible road accidents, he described the containers carrying the substance as highly resistant to collisions, chemicals, fire and explosions. "It's relatively easy to contain and secure and it's not going to go off like a bomb," Garland said. While the risks are small, he said, that doesn't mean they don't exist. He warned that radiation could be released if someone deliberately opened a container, for instance. Garland said moving uranium poses far more danger than shipping Bruce Power's old generators up the St. Lawrence. He calls the generator shipments a "trivial radioactive situation" and a "non-issue" because the cylinders hold very low levels of radioactive material. He said that even if they fell into the bottom of the river, the generators would pose a negligible risk. Canada has been importing highly enriched bomb-grade uranium from the U.S. to make medical isotopes at Chalk River for the past two decades. While Canada has been pushing for all nations to move to low-enriched uranium, it maintains a large inventory of the substance at Chalk River. The Canada-U.S. agreement is part of a broader international project by the Obama administration to consolidate highly enriched uranium at fewer, more secure sites around the world. The U.S. government says it wants to convert the uranium into a form that cannot be used to build Quote
Topaz Posted February 29, 2012 Author Report Posted February 29, 2012 Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Harper sign a trade agreement with China to trade uranium, which could end up in Iran. Quote
MACKER Posted March 10, 2012 Report Posted March 10, 2012 (edited) The US built the only bombs used in war made from Canadian materials. Canadian Plutonium for instance was what made fatman so fat. http://www.ccnr.org/opinion_ge.html The Quebec Agreement stipulated that the Bomb would not be used "against each other," or "against third parties without each other's consent". It also established a Combined Policy Committee of six to deal with the Bomb: three Americans, two Brits, and the Honourable C. D. Howe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._Howe Born in Massachusetts, Howe moved to Nova Scotia as a young adult Edited March 10, 2012 by MACKER Quote
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