updated 'nuclear theme' for march 21-23


Chinese 'find' radioactive ball
Chinese officials say that potentially deadly radioactive material lost in north-western Shaanxi province may have been found at a steel mill.

Officials told the BBC that they had detected what may be the missing Caesium-137, adding that it may have been melted down.
The Caesium-137, encased in lead, was lost this week when workers at a cement plant demolished an old factory.
The material was part of a measuring instrument and is extremely dangerous.
Caesium-137 is a radioactive isotope, formed mainly through nuclear fission. The smallest amount can cause infertility, cancer and even death.

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Eight trucks worth of scrap gathered at the disused factory in Tongchuan city were sold to a local steel mill, according to official news agency Xinhua.

Local environmental officials told the BBC they were mounting a clean-up operation at the mill in Fuping county.

The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Beijing says China has an appalling record on industrial safety - there are around 30 cases of radioactive material being lost every year.

Last July, a farmer in Shaanxi province was arrested after he stole a similar radioactive container and attempted to sell it for scrap.

updated March 28

North Korea threatens to restart nuclear plant

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North Korea has warned that if the international community punishes it for next month's planned missile launch, it will restart a nuclear plant that makes weapons-grade plutonium.

This week, the secretive state put a long-range missile in place for a launch that the US has warned would violate UN sanctions. The planned launch, seen by many as a disguised military exercise, is the first big test for Barack Obama in dealing with the rogue state.

North Korea says the launch is to put a satellite into orbit, and warned that any action by the UN Security Council to punish it would be viewed as a "hostile act".

"All the processes for the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula... will be brought back to what used to be... and necessary strong measures will be taken," said a foreign ministry spokesman.

North Korea has frozen its ageing nuclear reactor and started to dismantle its Yongbyon atomic plant under a deal signed by regional powers in 2005, which offered economic aid and better relations for the isolated North in return.

Despite the agreement, it carried out a nuclear test in 2006.

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Alaska volcano erupts three times on Friday

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Bodies found at Turkish helicopter crash site

ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- Forty-eight hours after a harrowing distress call from a helicopter crash survivor in the mountains of eastern Turkey, Turkey's interior minister said Friday that rescuers have finally discovered the wreckage.

None of the six people onboard the helicopter when it went down Wednesday survived to be rescued, CNN Turk reported.

The rescue effort, which involved thousands of soldiers, police and volunteers, has been severely hampered by deep snow and high mountains.

One of the rescuers who reached the wreckage Friday afternoon said he could see the bodies of three passengers, including the news reporter whose emergency call was the last communication from the aircraft after the crash.

"The helicopter broke into pieces, and the wreckage is spread across the ground," Abidin told CNN sister network CNN Turk by telephone.

He said the visibility was terrible because of heavy snow. Abidin added that the rescue party had to build a fire to stay warm, and that they themselves were now waiting for a helicopter to transport them away from the frigid mountaintop.

The rented helicopter was taking Muhsin Yazicioglu, the leader of a small ultra-nationalist political party, back from a campaign rally on Wednesday when it crashed.

Turkish political parties have suspended campaign rallies in the wake of the crash.

Wednesday afternoon, shortly after the helicopter crashed, one of the survivors managed to make a cell phone call to an emergency service.

Reporter Ismail Gunes pleaded by phone, saying, "I'm starting to freeze. I feel cold. It is snowing. I am inside the helicopter. I guess the people here died. Erhan, brother. Erhan, brother. Nothing. No sound from anyone. So bad."

A female dispatcher tells Gunes that the police are trying to locate him.

He then calls out again: "Erhan, brother. Brother, try to (open your eyes). He is lying, moaning."
"Is there any other sound from anyone?" the dispatcher asks.

"No, no," Gunes says. "My foot is broken badly. Miss, haven't you located us yet? We will freeze here. I guess the other people are dead. I can't move my foot. It is broken really badly. When will you determine our location, miss?"

The crash happened in a mountainous region of eastern Turkey amid rough terrain and adverse weather conditions, officials and media reports said.

It also occurred just days before municipal elections across the country.

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and another 'Tunguska' synchronicity:

Astronomers catch a shooting star for first time

Wed Mar 25

WASHINGTON - For the first time, scientists have matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky.


It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea about how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon.


Last October, astronomers tracked a small non-threatening asteroid heading toward Earth before it became a "shooting star" - something they had not done before.


It blew up in the sky and scientists thought there would be no space rocks left to examine.


But a painstaking search by dozens of students through the remote Sudan desert came up with four kilograms of black jagged rocks - leftovers from the asteroid 2008 TC3.


The study is being published Thursday in the journal Nature.


It says the dark rocks found in the desert were full of surprises, including minuscule diamonds.


"This was a meteorite that was not in our collection, a completely new material," said study lead author Peter Jenniskens of NASA's Ames Research Center in California.


For years, astronomers have been lobbying to send a robot probe to an asteroid, grab a chunk of it and return it to Earth for labs to analyze the material. Instead, a piece of an asteroid dropped in their laps and the researchers were able to track where it came from and where it landed.


The asteroid, which mostly burned in the atmosphere 37 kilometres above the ground, is likely a leftover from when chunks of rock tried and failed to become a planet, about 4.5 billion years ago, scientists said.


"This is a look back in time and it came to us," said University of Maryland astronomer Lucy McFadden. She wasn't part of the study, but like four other outside experts praised the findings as important to the understanding of the solar system.


"It's a beautiful example of looking at an earlier stage of planet development that was arrested, halted," said NASA cosmic mineralogist Michael Zolensky, a co-author of the study.


But it also serves as a lesson for the future if this asteroid's big brother comes hurtling toward Earth.


Blowing it up like in the Bruce Willis movie "Armageddon" wouldn't be smart because this type of asteroid turns out to be very much like a "travelling sandpile," Zolensky said. "If you blow it up, all the pieces are heading toward Earth."


Instead, a spaceship-aided nudge would be more effective, said NASA Ames Research Center director Simon (Pete) Worden, another study co-author. He is a longtime advocate of a worldwide program to plan for the threat of asteroids and comets hitting Earth.


"The real important issue is to understand the physics of these objects," Worden said.


There are many different types of asteroids, all classified from afar based on colour and light wavelengths. This type is called class F and turns out to be mostly porous and fragile. University of Maryland's McFadden said it's unlikely that a class F asteroid could be any danger to Earth, even if it's bigger, because of its porous makeup which would cause it to break up before hitting.

It was full of metals, such as iron and nickel, and organics such as graphites, Zolensky said. And most interesting is that it has "nanodiamonds." These diamonds are formed by collisions in space and high pressure and they are all over the rocks, making them glitter like geodes, he said. But they aren't big.

"If bacteria had engagement rings, these would be the right size for them," Zolensky said.

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updated march 28

Russia to build 6 nuclear subs with cruise missiles

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russia will build at least six nuclear-powered submarines with long-range cruise missiles for its navy, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told the Itar-Tass news agency.

The missiles can potentially carry low-capacity tactical warheads, the news agency reported Friday.

"These supersonic, highly maneuvering missiles are designed for strikes on aircraft carriers of the enemy if the latter poses a direct threat to Russia's security," the unnamed source told Itar-Tass. "The missiles can be launched at the most important coastal facilities."

The source added, "Despite the construction of a new nuclear submarine with new missiles, Russia intends to observe firmly international arms control agreements on equal terms with other countries."

The Severodvinsk-class submarines are being built at the Sevmash shipyard, the center of Russian nuclear submarine production, according to Global Security's Web site.

The new subs will be put into service for the Russian navy in 2011, the source told Itar-Tass.

Russia will finance the construction of the new submarine with long-range cruise missiles, First Deputy Chief of the Navy's General Staff, Vice-Admiral Oleg Burtsev told Itar-Tass.

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Thousands expected for London G-20 protest

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The first major protest ahead of next week's G-20 summit got underway in a cold and rainy London on Saturday, but police said they expected the event to be largely peaceful despite fears of violence in coming days.

As many as 20,000 people were expected at the Put People First march, organized by trade unions but backed by some 120 other groups including environmentalists, church groups, and political campaigners.

A massive security operation is being deployed ahead of next week's summit, which police expect to be targeted by an "unprecedented" wave of demonstrations.

Authorities are bracing for possible violence as anti-capitalist and environmental protesters to converge on the Bank of England next Wednesday -- April 1 -- for a "mass street party" dubbed "Financial Fools Day."

Protesters gathering on Saturday were calling for jobs, fair distribution of wealth, and a low-carbon future.

They carried banners and posters reading "Climate Emergency," "Gaza: End the Blockade," "Planet Before Profit," "We Won't Pay for Their Crisis," and "Jobs not Bombs."

Some groups turned out to march in bright-colored rain ponchos or hard hats.

The day began with a church service in central London. The Salvation Army, which helped organize the service, said it was a "perfect opportunity to ask the G-20 to consider the world's most vulnerable people."

Those at the service sang "We are blessed to bless a world in pieces." They asked for freedom from debt and justice to profit, the Salvation Army said.

After gathering along the Thames River and marching along its banks, marchers were expected to move past Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park for a mass rally in the afternoon. Speakers at the rally include trade union bosses, environmentalists, and global justice campaigners, along with musicians and a comedian, according to march organizers.

The G-20 summit next Thursday brings together leaders and financial chiefs from the top 20 industrialized and emerging economies, along with leaders from non-G-20 nations.

Hundreds of other officials will also be there, including the heads of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

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Japan to 'destroy' N Korea rocket

Japan says it is deploying missile interceptors to destroy any parts of a North Korean rocket that might fall on its territory.

North Korea has said it will launch a satellite into orbit next month.

South Korea, Japan and the US say the launch is cover for a test of the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile.

The US said a launch would violate UN Security Council resolutions. Russia said North Korea should "abstain" from testing any missiles.

'Assure safety'

Japan's Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada issued the orders to mobilise Japan's missile defence shield after a meeting with Prime Minister Taro Aso and cabinet ministers.

"We will do our best to handle any flying object from North Korea in order to assure the Japanese people's safety and security," said Mr Hamada.

"A satellite or a missile - we are displeased with anything that is going to fly over our land, and such an action must be stopped."

It is the first time that constitutionally pacifist Japan has deployed the shield. The country's military is also expected to deploy warships off its coast.

North Korea says it intends to test-fire the rocket between the 4 and 8 April.

The trajectory issued by Pyongyang shows the rocket will pass over Japan, with the first booster stage landing in the sea to the west, the second in the Pacific Ocean to the east.

The interception is only likely to be activated if the launch does not go as planned and debris appears to be falling towards Japan.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin told journalists that the launch had led to increased tensions in the region, "and this is why it would be better if our partners in North Korea abstained from this".

Japan revised its Self-Defence Forces Law in 2005, legalising possible interceptions of ballistic missiles.

But the country's pacifist constitution does not allow it to intercept a missile if it is clearly heading elsewhere.

The Japanese government had previously warned it would try to shoot down any missile or debris that threatens to hit its territory.

North Korea has said it would regard any rocket intercept as an act of war.

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Owners drop Freedom Tower name for new WTC skyscraper

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The agency that owns the space where the World Trade Center towers stood is freeing itself of the term "freedom" to describe the signature skyscraper replacing the buildings destroyed on September 11, 2001.

The change from Freedom Tower was revealed Thursday at a news conference where the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced the signing of the first commercial lease in the building to a Chinese company. The building is expected to be completed in late 2013.

"We've referred to the primary building planned for the site as One World Trade Center -- its legal name and street address -- for almost two years now, as well as using the name the Freedom Tower," said Stephen Sigmund, a spokesman for the Port Authority, in a statement released to CNN. "Many will always refer to it as the Freedom Tower, but as the building moves out of the planning stage and into full construction and leasing, we believe that going forward it is most practical to market the building as One World Trade Center."

Ten of the building's planned 108 above-ground floors have been built.

"The fact is, more than $3 billion of public money is invested in that building, and, as a public agency, we have the responsibility to make sure it is completed and that we utilize the best strategy to make certain it is fully occupied," Sigmund added.

He noted that the agency lost 84 colleagues in the September 11 attacks.

Mary Fetchet, founding director of Voices of September 11th, a group that commemorates the lives of those killed in the attack, said she was not familiar with the decision made by the Port Authority and was not willing to make a statement.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, on the John Gambling radio show taped Friday morning, said he was not upset by the Port Authority's decision.

"It's up to the Port Authority," he said. "I have no idea what the commercial aspects are, and we can say, 'Oh, we shouldn't worry about that,' but of course you have to, particularly now.

"I would like to see it stay the Freedom Tower, but it's their building, and they don't need me dumping on it. If they could rent the whole thing by changing the name, I guess they're going to do that, and they probably, from a responsible point of view, should. From a patriotic point of view, is it going to make any difference?"

He added, "one of the things is, we call things what we want to call them. So, Avenue of the Americas is a good example, for it's Sixth Avenue to most people. Very few people use Avenue of the Americas. If they name this One World Trade Center, people will still call it the Freedom Tower."

The building was named the Freedom Tower in the first "ground zero" master plan. Officials said at the time that the tallest, most symbolic of five planned towers at the site would demonstrate the country's triumph over terrorism.

Representatives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Vantone Industrial Co. announced Thursday the signing of a lease that will create the China Center, a 190,810-square-foot business and cultural facility, to be on portions of the 64th floor and the entire 65th through 69th floors of One World Trade Center.

Hailing it as a great day for the Port Authority and its partners in the China center, Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward added, "this is the first step in a long journey as downtown is finally rebuilt."

The lease is for 20 years and nine months, beginning when the building is completed, with rents starting at $80 per square foot and escalating afterward. The China Center also will have the right to lease up to two additional contiguous floors under the same terms, an option that expires at the end of 2009.

The Port Authority also has commitments for more than a million square feet of leased office space in One World Trade Center from the U.S. General Services Administration and the New York State Office of General Services. Leases for these two public agencies are being finalized. These commitments, coupled with the China Center lease, represent nearly 50 percent of the office space in the building.

The China Center at One World Trade Center is expected to represent the elite of China's business and cultural communities and serve as a hub for Chinese firms developing United States operations, as well as for U.S. companies that wish to conduct business in China or expand operations.

One World Trade Center will include 2.6 million gross square feet of office space on 70 office floors, a public lobby with a 50-foot-high ceiling, an observation deck 1,265 feet above ground, a skyline restaurant, a wide array of shopping and parking.

The building itself will be 1,368 feet tall, and a spire at the top will bring the total height to 1,776 feet.

Beijing Vantone Industrial is one of the first private corporations established in China. Today, the company is one of China's largest private real estate investment companies with 13 subsidiaries, including one publicly traded company, Beijing Vantone Real Estate Co

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Discovery ends mission with successful landing

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Russian ship with tourist docks with space station after glitch

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Officials said the astronauts had overridden the spacecraft's automatic pilots to dock manually after a glitch in an engine caused the Soyuz's computer to stop the process.

"One of the engines had a fault which the computer considered was serious and it began to move the Soyuz away from the ISS at a rate of one metre per second," mission control official Vladimir Sovlov told RIA-Novosti news agency.

"We decided not to allow that and asked the crew to intervene. The commander judged the engine was working normally and we authorised him to approach in manual mode, which was carried out successfully."

but this is what really matters, Tunguska synchronicity:

Was the Tunguska Fireball a Comet Chemical Bomb?

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March 27th, 2009

Over a century ago, on June 30th, 1908 a huge explosion detonated over an unpopulated region of Russia called Tunguska. It is probably one of the most enduring mysteries of this planet. What could cause such a huge explosion in the atmosphere, with the energy of a thousand Hiroshima atomic bombs, flattening a forest the area of Luxembourg and yet leaving no crater? It is little wonder that the Tunguska event has become great material for science fiction writers; how could such a huge blast, that shook the Earth's magnetic field and lit up the Northern Hemisphere skies for three days leave no crater and just a bunch of flattened, scorched trees?

Although there are many theories as to how the Tunguska event may have unfolded, scientists are still divided over what kind of object could have hit the Earth from space. Now a Russian scientist believes he has uncovered the best answer yet. The Earth was glanced by a large comet, that skipped off the upper atmosphere, dropping a chunk of comet material as it did so. As the comet chunk heated up as it dropped through the atmosphere, the material, packed with volatile chemicals, exploded as the biggest chemical explosion mankind had ever seen…

12,000 years ago, a large object smashed into North America, causing global destruction. Dust and ash was released into the atmosphere, triggering global cooling and possibly causing the extinction of a number of large mammals around this time. The Tunguska event was of a similar energy to that catastrophic impact, but fortunately for us, Tunguska had a benign effect on the world. It simply exploded high in the atmosphere, flattened a region of Russia and vaporized.

"Significantly, the energy of the chemical explosion is substantially lower than the kinetic energy of the body," says Edward Drobyshevski of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, who has published his research into the Tunguska event. The fact that the Tunguska explosion energy is lower than what is expected of the kinetic energy of an object that hit the Earth from space is key to his work. Drobyshevski therefore concludes that the event must have been caused not by an asteroid or whole comet, it was actually caused by a fragment of comet material that fell off as the main cometary body skipped off the Earth's upper atmosphere. This means that the Earth was hit on a tangent and the fragment dropped comparatively slowly toward the surface.

Sounds reasonable so far, but how did the fragment explode? Using our new understanding as to what chemicals comets contain, Drobyshevski surmises the fragment was rich in hydrogen peroxide. This is where the magic happened. The explosion was not due to a rapid release of kinetic energy, it was in fact a hydrogen peroxide bomb. As the fragment descended, it heated up. As the reactive chemicals in the material got hot, they explosively disassociated to form oxygen and water, ripping the fragment apart. The Tunguska event was therefore a huge chemical bomb and not a "regular" comet-hits-Earth impact.

An interesting study. Not content with dropping asteroids on our planet, the Universe has started throwing hydrogen peroxide explosives at us too. Whatever next?

Besides this Jesus Christ's face appearing on a broken meteorite (actually or ‘conditioning’) as ‘Tunguska synchronicity’, there was another ‘confirmation’ during that same timeframe:
On March 25 it was published that for the first time, scientists have matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky.
Astronomers tracked a small non-threatening asteroid heading toward Earth before it became a "shooting star" - something they had not done before. It blew up in the sky and scientists thought there would be no space rocks left to examine, But a painstaking search by dozens of students through the remote Sudan desert came up with four kilograms of black jagged rocks - leftovers from the asteroid 2008 TC3.

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The symbolism of this synchronicity is clear: This is about the real origin of meteorites, this is about the real origin and meaning of the ‘Tunguska event’.

The time frame around March 28 was identified as Golden Mean Phi linked to the flight 522 crash in Marathon, Greece on August 14, 2005 and this years flight 1549 Hudson crash landing.

The flight 522 crash is one of the major events that play an important role inn this ‘Hyper Dimensional Design reasearch’, it stands for “running on autopilot towards nuclear devastation", the people onboard flight 522 were frozen to death.

The flight 1549 Hudson crash landing is showing us that we can land this plane safe with no casualties.

I expected a related event for around March 28 but of course I didn’t knew what to expect.

In a previous post I already mentioned that ‘Tunguska' happened on a designed moment in our perception of time, intelligently marking Hirhoshima-Nagasaki and Deep Impact.

Tunguska is a warning

And it is ‘Tunguska’ again that finds expression on this anticipated timeframe around March 28:

Published on March 27, Golden Mean linked to Flight 522 & 1549 crashes:

And again it is about the real origin of the ‘Tunguska event’:

Was the Tunguska Fireball a Comet Chemical Bomb?

March 27th, 2009

Over a century ago, on June 30th, 1908 a huge explosion detonated over an unpopulated region of Russia called Tunguska. It is probably one of the most enduring mysteries of this planet. What could cause such a huge explosion in the atmosphere, with the energy of a thousand Hiroshima atomic bombs, flattening a forest the area of Luxembourg and yet leaving no crater? It is little wonder that the Tunguska event has become great material for science fiction writers; how could such a huge blast, that shook the Earth's magnetic field and lit up the Northern Hemisphere skies for three days leave no crater and just a bunch of flattened, scorched trees?

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The destiny of mankind is in our hands, we will keep on running towards nuclear devastation or we will crash land safe, the probability of the latter goes hand in hand to what extend we will be able to listen to ‘Tunguska’s warning’.
“Don’t mess with nuclear power ( Hirhoshima/Nagasaki) and stay out of space ( Deep impact on Tempe I )”

unbelievable

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Giant laser experiment powers up

The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment aimed at recreating conditions at the heart of our Sun.

The US National Ignition Facility is designed to demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion, a process that could offer abundant clean energy.

The lab will kick-start the reaction by focusing 192 giant laser beams on a tiny pellet of hydrogen fuel.

To work, it must show that more energy can be extracted from the process than is required to initiate it.

Professor Mike Dunne, who leads a European venture that is also pursuing nuclear fusion with lasers, told BBC News that if NIF was successful, it would be a "seismic event".

"It would mark the transition for laser fusion from 'physics' to 'engineering reality'," he said.

The California-based NIF is the largest experimental science facility in the US and contains the world's most powerful laser. It has taken 12 years to build.

"This is a major milestone," said Dr Ed Moses, director of the facility.

"We are well on our way to achieving what we set out to do - controlled, sustained nuclear fusion and energy gain for the first time ever in a laboratory setting."

'Building blocks'

Experiments will begin in June 2009, with the first significant results expected between 2010 and 2012.

"We have an incredible amount to do and an incredible amount to learn," added Dr Moses.

Fusion is looked on as the "holy grail" of energy sources because of its potential to supply almost limitless clean energy.

But the challenge of creating a practical fusion reactor has eluded scientists for decades. Now, however, they believe they are nearing their goal.

"We are now very close to the culmination of 50 years' effort," explained Professor Dunne.

There are currently several experimental facilities around the world aimed at demonstrating the building blocks of nuclear fusion.

In this process, two heavier forms of hydrogen, known as deuterium and tritium, are fused together to form helium.

Deuterium is commonly found in seawater, whilst tritium can be prepared from lithium, a relatively common element found in soil.

When these isotopes are combined at high temperatures, a small amount of mass is lost and a colossal amount of energy is released.

Energy gain

Fusion naturally occurs at the centre of stars where huge gravitational pressure allows the process to happen at temperatures of about 10 million Celsius.

At the much lower pressures on Earth, temperatures to produce fusion need to be much higher - above 100 million Celsius.

NIF will focus on a process known as inertially confined fusion, in which these extreme temperatures are achieved using ultra powerful lasers.

"When all NIF lasers are fired at full energy, they will deliver 1.8 megajoules of ultraviolet energy to the target," explained Dr Moses.

NIF's beams are intended to deliver more than 60 times the energy of any previous laser system. When fired, the pulse will last just a few nanoseconds (billionths of a second) but it will impart an energy equivalent to 500 trillion Watts - more than the peak electrical generating power of the entire United States.

This intense energy will be focused on a ball-bearing-sized pellet of fuel, ablating the surface and compressing the remaining material inwards.

"This process will create temperatures of 100 million degrees and pressures billions of times greater than Earth's atmospheric pressure, forcing the hydrogen nuclei to fuse and release many times more energy than the laser energy required to spark the reaction," said Dr Moses.

This "energy gain", as it is known, is key. If it works, NIF will release 10 to 100 times more energy than the amount pumped into the lasers to kick-start the reaction.

Other experiments have shown that ignition is possible, but so far none have been able to demonstrate a net energy gain.

"The world is looking to NIF to provide a clear, unequivocal demonstration that lasers can initiate fusion energy gain," said Professor Dunne.

"This would lay the fundamental physics question to rest, allowing the community to focus on harnessing this energy."

Twin track

Although NIF is only at the beginning of its experimental life, scientists are already planning its successor, a European project known as Hiper (High Power Laser Energy Research).

"The technology of NIF allows the laser to fire every few hours," explained Professor Dunne, director of Hiper.

"This is right for the demonstration of the physics 'proof of principle', but does not meet the requirement of a laser fusion power plant, which needs to operate a few times per second."

Hiper aims to lay the foundations of this continuous fusion cycle by showing it can ignite a steady stream of fuel pellets.

"This means a fundamentally different laser technology, a new approach to fuel pellet production, and a suite for robotic handling capability," said Professor Dunne.

In October 2008, Hiper received approximately 13m euros of funding to carry out a feasibility study. It also has access to European hardware and capability worth a further 50m euros.

If all goes well, engineers will begin to build the Hiper facility towards the end of the next decade, bringing the vision of a commercial fusion reactor one step closer to reality.

At approximately the same time, scientist will also get their hands on another mammoth fusion experiment, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter), currently being built in Cadarache, France.

Iter will attempt to initiate fusion using a different method, known as magnetic confinement, in which a super-heated volume of gas is constrained by magnetic fields in a doughnut-shaped vessel known as a tokamak.

"We are entering a period when much of the technology development is common to both approaches," said Professor Dunne.

"We believe that the two-track approach is essential given the scale of the problem, and the predicted impact on society."

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march 31 midpoint July 7 London Bombings - end of mayan calendar

'Terror' case probe continues
Inquiries into an alleged terror plot in connection with London's G20 summit are continuing, police in Devon said.

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An imitation Kalashnikov rifle and fireworks were seized by officers in Plymouth over the last few days.

A 20-year-old woman has been released on bail but another woman, 20, and three men aged 25, 19 and 16 remain in custody and are being questioned.

They were arrested under the Terrorism Act after the 25-year-old was allegedly seen spraying graffiti.

A number of imitation weapons were seized in searches of several premises, as well as "politically sensitive material", police said.

Further items were seized from an address in the city centre on Monday evening.

Officers said the weapons were "probably not even lethal" and no ammunition was found.

The arrested people have not been linked to any religious group.

Detectives are investigating the possibility they were planning to mount protests in London against the G20 summit of world leaders, which begins on Thursday.

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updated March 28

I am posting this HDDesign material also at synchromysticism forum. Raybeam added:

Quote:

"Dan Burisch, Project Camleot's insider whistleblower had an announcement to make on March 28.. He declared that the T2 Timeline, in which the world was destroyed had been averted. The date of the catastrophe in the T2 timeline has now passed. The date was March 28 2009!" Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum! Quote: THE DATE OF THE T2 CATASTROPHE, IN THE NOW GONE TIMELINE OF THE J-RODS AND ORIONS WAS GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC AFTER THE TIME HAD PASSED. "OUR FAITH IN EACH OTHER, IN A POSITIVE FUTURE FOR HUMANITY, AND IN THE ETERNAL, WAS JUSTIFIED BY THE HUMBLE PEOPLE OF EARTH WHO LIVED THROUGH THIS PRECIOUS TIME IN HISTORY! TO THE FUTURE!" -Danny B Catselas Burisch, Sc.D., March 28, 2009 Transliterated from the private diaries of Dr. Danny B Catselas Burisch, as listed on August 1, 1995 and September 8, 1998: "Beenie, record we minus to stars home star of ancients joined brethren ert. See. Waters cover half 24 Nsn6 72/24 ing universa ante end Marse 5769 Nsn3. Joined no more see. Time ancients must decide joining.” This basically translated: ‘Owing to sidereal and solar days, the conjoined people of earth saw the oceans overflow at about Noon at Universal Time on March 28, 2009. The joined resonance was no further seen by us.’ (We separated as a species.) ‘We have the ability to decide to remain together.’ Only registered users can see links on this forum! Register or Login on forum! It's hard to know what to believe about this, but it's very syncronistically connected.