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Khatami: If I Run In The Elections, The People Will Pay the Price

| Iran Pulse: Must-Reads from Iran Today

http://iranpulse.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/04/1820/khatami-if-i-run-in-the-elections-the-people-will-pay-the-pric

Khatami also compared the state of Iran’s nuclear program today to the era of his presidency. He said: “During our era [1997-2005] the use of nuclear technology was recognized. We didn’t provoke the world … we built international trust.” While decisions on Iran’s nuclear program are made through the supreme leader’s office many critics inside Iran have accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of increasing Iran’s international isolation and pressure through his inflammatory rhetoric.

How close is Iran to nuclear weapons? – Yousaf Butt
►http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/22/how-close-is-iran-to-nuclear-weapons

The best intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program indicates that no nuclear weapons work is going on in Iran right now. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has confirmed that he has “a high level of confidence” that no such work is going on now. This reflects the consensus view of 16 different U.S. intelligence agencies.

It says far more than merely that there is no evidence now for any nuclear weapons development work in Iran. It says there is actual concrete high-quality evidence that Iran is not making nuclear weapons, and that the leaders in Tehran have not even made a decision to embark on such a program.

Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has also weighed in: “Are they [Iranians] trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.” Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent more than a decade as the director of the IAEA, said  he had not “seen a shred of evidence” that Iran was pursuing the bomb, “I don’t believe Iran is a clear and present danger,” he said. “All I see is the hype about the threat posed by Iran.”

How close is Iran to nuclear weapons? | The Great Debate
►http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/22/how-close-is-iran-to-nuclear-weapons

One point often misunderstood about the Nonproliferation Treaty is that it is not illegal for a member state to have a nuclear weapons capability – or even a “nuclear option.” In fact, if a nation has a fully developed civilian nuclear sector – which the NPT encourages – it, by default, already has a fairly solid nuclear weapons capability. Just as you cannot be fined for having a red sports car that has the capability to go 120 mph, there is no legal issue with nations having a latent nuclear weapons capability.

For example, Argentina, Brazil and Japan also maintain a “nuclear option.” They, too, could break out of the NPT and make a nuclear device in a few months, if not less.

Argentina and Brazil, like Iran, also do not permit full “Additional Protocol” IAEA inspections. Not only for Iran, but for 50 other nations, the IAEA cannot prove the purely peaceful nature of their nuclear program.

There is a reason for that: Much nuclear technology is inherently dual-use. This is the why some of us in the arms-control community are thinking of a revised NPT to plug these glaring loopholes.

Japanese-French reactor bid clears legal hurdle | Jordan Times
http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=44041

A Japanese-French bid to build Jordan’s first reactor cleared an international legal hurdle on Tuesday as nuclear officials narrow in on their selection of a nuclear technology vendor.

The Japanese parliament approved a cooperation accord with the Kingdom yesterday, paving the way for the export of nuclear technology to Jordan, a major legal hurdle to a bid by a joint consortium comprising Japanese firm Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and French firm AREVA.

On imagine que la diplomatie française et AREVA ont vaillamment bataillé pour obtenir ce résultat, qui permet de ne pas enterrer trop vite les chances de ce consortium d’être choisi pour le programme nucléaire jordanien.
#Jordanie
#nucléaire
#Japon

WikiLeaks sheds light on US-Jordan nuclear rift
http://www.jordantimes.com/index.php?news=41528

Sur la géopolitique du nucléaire au Proche Orient : les Etats Unis méfiants face au projet jordanien de se doter d’une centrale nucléaire. Un projet dont on a pas fini de parler.

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space | Statement on japanese nuclear disaster
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2011/04/global-network-statement-on-japanese.html

nuclear power, an energy source that must be abandoned (...) Instead there must be full implementation of safe, clean energy technologies --- which are here today.

The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in #Space has long challenged the use of atomic energy in space. The network has emphasized that there are safe alternatives to energize space devices. In recent times, NASA, at long last, has begun substituting solar energy for nuclear power in space. Indeed, in coming months NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft will be launched on a five-year mission to Jupiter. It was not long ago that #NASA emphatically insisted that solar power could not substitute for nuclear beyond the orbit of #Mars. Suddenly, it now can be done.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QxMwkN6c1TM/TZ8fBg_OTqI/AAAAAAAAD08/qKiTbzSSGv0/s400/jap4.jpg

#espace #nucléaire

Il faut lire la page de Wikipédia consacrée aux « Conséquences sanitaires de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl » :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conséquences_sanitaires_de_la_catastrophe_de_Tchernobyl

Combien de morts ? Peut-être 50 (selon la police), ou alors 4.000, ou bien 9.000, ou encore 60.000 (selon les organisateurs).

Pour ce gugusse d’Oxford (cité par Maître Éolas sur Twitter) : 43.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12860842

And Chernobyl? The latest UN report published on 28 February confirms the known death toll - 28 fatalities among emergency workers, plus 15 fatal cases of child thyroid cancer - which would have been avoided if iodine tablets had been taken (as they have now in Japan).

Bon, alors, 43 ou 60.000 ? Pourquoi tout ce brave monde n’expédie pas ses enfants faire les « liquidateurs » à Fukushima : c’est moins dangereux que de prendre le métro à Paris, et c’est super bien payé. Pour un jeune, c’est un stage d’été carrément épatant.