As far back as 1991 the British Atomic Energy Commission warned, in a classified report to the British Government, about the lethal results of using depleted uranium, the so-called DU-ammunition, in grenades/shells, the newspaper The Times is revealing. In the classified report the British government's own control body warned them of the consequences of Uranium remains on the ground in Kuwait, both to civilians, and to allied and Iraqi soldiers' lives, that all human-produced radioactive material is just too dangerous to leave unprotected anywhere.
WEEK 4 Jan 15th to 21st 2001
WARNED AGAINST DEPLETED URANIUM AMMUNITION IN 1991
The fact that Uranium 238 has a half-life of 4.5 billion years is also quite a heavy consideration in this and other matters.
SPANISH-BRITISH QUARREL CONCERNING STRANDED NUCLEAR SUBMARINE
The British Navy has willfully held back information about the dangers of repairing a British nuclear submarine stranded at Gibraltar, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo claims. The newspaper is quoting a representative for the Spanish Nuclear Protective Agency who says the tension between the two nation now is "at the breaking point".
The British submarine HMS Tireless has been stranded by the British colony Gibraltar since May last year.
NORWEGIAN WOLF-HUNT TO BE DECIDED IN FEBRUARY
The directorate of administration of nature will in February decide whether or not wolves shall be shot and subsequently how many. Several environmental organizations have stated that they will appeal a shooting decision and therefore the ball will eventually find its way to the Norwegian minister of Environment Siri Bjerke.
In related news it's now clear that the wolf cub found dead in September was poisoned, the Veterinarian Institute in Trondheim is stating in a brief.
The mayor Erling Myhre of the now well-known infamous county of Rendalen in the Osterdalen valley, where the two wolf-tribes are at risk, has issued a warning to his constituents to not let themselves be interviewed by journalists. He says "there will be a lot of heat" during a shooting and that the entire community easily could be seen as "backwards" and "rural crackpots" and "wolf-haters" to the unenlightened outside world. Myhre has for years argued for "a complete eradication of Wolves on Norwegian soil".
Entered 2001-01-15