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Iraq's bomb project back to square two

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If a Vienna meeting between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iraqi delegates fails to result in Iraq completely dismantling their nuclear weapon manufacturing facilities, President Bush will probably decide to use bombs and missiles against their installations. Experts making inspections of Iraq's facilities were astonished at the extent of the equipment and had no doubt that Iraq was well on the way to producing nuclear weapons. The first likely target for US attack would be the atomic research centre located south west of Baghdad at al-Atheer.

Military policy, Iraq, Nuclear weapons plants

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A mandarin in the hot seat

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Chairman of British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) John Guinness is waiting for a government decision about the fate of the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) reprocessing plant at Sellafield, Cumbria, England. The state-owned BNFL built it in Mar 1992 but it cannot start operating until the government decides the amount of radioactivity it may discharge. John Guinness, formerly permanent secretary of the Department of Energy, comes from the brewing and banking family. He plans to reclaim plutonium from mixed oxide plutonium fuel (Mox) for use in reactors.

Management, Usage, Officials and employees, Services, Nuclear industry, British Nuclear Fuels PLC, Interview, Plutonium, Sellafield Nuclear Power Plant

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Scientists and storytellers

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Many more science books are now being aimed at the general public than in the past, but they often still deal with subjects which are very far removed from ordinary people's lives, such as cosmology and particle physics. There are very few books which deal with topics to which ordinary people can relate. It seems that scientists are unable to appreciate what ordinary readers really want to known, and fail to introduce a narrative around technical explanations.

Science, Literature

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