Reader's Corner: Oct 26-Nov 8,2006
Re: Editorial: How your tax dollars helped North Korea make its bomb, October 12, 2006
You stated that not many in the nuclear field are willing to investigate how much CANDU technology has been used to make the world unsafe by training Pakistani nuclear engineers.
Well in 1972, when I was visiting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on other business, I asked about their system for monitoring and securing spent fuel bundles.
I then went on to visit KANUPP where I saw the IAEA system in operation and had the IAEA site inspector explain it in detail to me. I was then convinced that the IAEA system could not be defeated without being detected.
I continue to believe that Pakistan has strictly adhered to the conditions of the 1966 KANUPP Contract which required application of IAEA safeguards to KANUPP spent fuel.
You also refer to uranium enrichment stating that one Pakistani learned his stuff on a CANDU reactor near Karachi - KANUPP.
Maybe you have mixed up the two different technologies of nuclear electrical power generation and the manufacture of nuclear bombs.
The only nuclear technology supplied by Canada to Pakistan was the Karachi Nuclear Power Project – KANUPP – a 137 MWe CANDU electrical generating station which went into service in 1972.
My experience of this project and the Pakistani engineers who trained in Canada was from 1966 to 1976.
It is true that the spent fuel from a CANDU contains plutonium, but this is in a highly radioactive form which would require chemical reprocessing.
This is a very difficult technology to obtain outside the knowledge of Canadian or KANUPP nuclear power engineers.
This fact and the IAEA Safeguards is why Pakistan used weapons-grade uranium enrichment which Pakistan’s Abdul Quadeer Khan obtained from Europe.
Neil G. Craik,
Consulting Engineer
Fredericton, New
Brunswick
Consulting Engineer
Fredericton, New
Brunswick
Neil is wrong. The AECL uses enriched uranium technology in its Advanced Candu Reactors (ACR). Natural uranium contains about 0.7 per cent U235, the uranium isotope that actually fires the nuclear reaction. The ACR uses enriched uranium, with about 2 per cent U235
DD, Scientist
Vancouver
Vancouver
Any and all sovereign nations have the right to free trade, self-defense, and freedom from threats, intimidation and “international blockades” from so-called western superpowers.
North Korea, and all independent nations should be free to do nuclear research just as the “white” nations have done.
The greatest dangers to world peace is not Asian or African nations, but rather the European colonialist nations, the US, Australia, etc.
Lee Han Guk, Sales
Daegu, South Korea
Lee Han Guk, Sales
Daegu, South Korea
Re: Brave beauty vies for Tibet title, October 12, 2006
I think your articles are very good. I never knew about the struggles of Tibetan women.
I hope you will continue to let everyone know about these lovely people. Do continue the good work.
Nick Tan, Businessman
Richmond, BC
Richmond, BC
Re: Editorial: Sick Man of Southeast Asia is only going to get sicker, Sept. 7, 2006
The crux of your article is your prediction of the unpleasant future of health services in our country.
It is a legitimate concern but it does not mean that it is not being addressed by the government and the private health sector.
For one, the government is working closely with private hospitals in promoting medical tourism.
Two of the country’s best known hospitals, the National Kidney Institute and St. Luke’s Hospital, enjoy significant patronage from nationals of South Asian and South Pacific countries seeking top-class treatment.
Hospitals get even more patronage from European-based migrant Filipinos who want to get top-notch treatment for a fraction of the cost in European hospitals.
The Philippines’ private health sector also enjoys support from investors, attesting to the talents and the facilities available in the country and laying proof to their positive outlook of the country’s Medical Tourism industry.
For example, Thailand’s Bumrungrad Hospital, which is Southeast Asia’s leading hospital for Medical Tourism, is a major stockholder of the elite Asian Hospital based in Paranaque City.
Bumrungrad refers cases that it cannot handle anymore due to capacity limitations to the Asian Hospital.
We Filipinos realize that we still have a long way to go in correcting the problem of labor migration, let alone among our medical professionals. We are very much aware of the problems.
Jasmine Juanico,
Phillipines
Phillipines
Re: Mary Kay’s pink gospel converts China’s women, Dec. 22,2005
What a shame that, like big tobacco, Mary Kay and other unscrupulous pyramid schemes, which have a close to 99% turnover rate here in the U.S. have decided to prey upon the unsuspecting in other countries.
The “secret” to making money in this kind of “business” is by preying upon other people. The more people you sucker in, the higher you go and the more your commissions.
Meg Landis,
USA
USA
Re: No one deserves to be killed for love, Feb. 27, 2006
As I am writing this letter, I am crying at the same time. I feel strong anger for the pain and the trauma Jassi must have endured. I curse the family which committed this henious crime. What is more enraging is the attitude of the Canadian goverment. Instead of bringing the criminals to the justice they are sheltering them.
Azad Chaturvedi,
Student,
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
Azad Chaturvedi,
Student,
Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
I cannot even start to put down in words how upset I was when I read the story of Jassi and her Romeo.
I heard about it from a site on Myspace that gets people to sign the petition for Jassi (www.justiceforjassi.com).
I cried as I was reading this, to think that people can be this cruel, really upsets me.
I cried as I was reading this, to think that people can be this cruel, really upsets me.
I haven’t stopped thinking about Jassi since I read her story.
Even though I do not live in India or Canada, I will do my very best to get people here, in Massachusetts, to sign the petition and support her case in ways I can’t even describe. Justice better be found.
I hope to god Jassi is in a better place, looking down, and watching all who are helping.
Jassi, I didn’t know you, but I miss you. You were truly a beautiful young woman and what happened to you, shouldn’t happen to anyone.
Chloe Glover
Somerville, Massachusetts
Somerville, Massachusetts
Has anyone one ever noticed how some people (usully the bad ones) get away with doing the worst. I pray that Jassi’s mother and uncle are punished. But it seems the justice system is failing. Why is it that people with money are above the law?
Gagan Chahal,
Vancouver
Vancouver
Is this really Canada that people can so blatantly conspire to murder?
Eldon Yundt
Walkerton,
Ontario
Walkerton,
Ontario
North Korean, and their captured colonial puppets in the South, should be free of US involvement in their political affairs. Of course, an impossible dream.
Most importantly, more Filipinos are taking a pro-active stance in addressing the problems. In my humble opinion, more than any problem ailing our country, a sense of pride and nationalism is the best gauge of a changed and more positive future for our country.
Honestly, the article dishearterns me as shooting down a horse that’s trying hard to get up. It is unfair for foreigners who have not even set foot in our country to pass judgement. You have to do better research than that and strive for more balanced reporting. It’s really all that we’re asking for.
are they not human? It makes me ashamed to be Canadian (and Indian, actually) when you hear about how peopel get away with murder just because they have money... so what? they were involved with a murder! for god’s sake, they should be PUNISHED... as far as the RCMP go it is hard to believe that they are investigating anything.... i’m almost certain thta they are not. It is sad taht living in a country that is so great that we still don’t have an adequate justice system... i’m sure if it were a poor family who had someone rich assholes child murdered the RCMP would do anything in their power to have justice prevail... but it was just a rich woman killing her own daughter... i mean sure they have evidence that could put the unlce and whore of a mother away for good, but why bother? what good is justice in an unjust world
And has anyine ever thought of poor mithoo? he is suffering, not onle because he lost the love of his lif but because he seems to be in trouble, all the time... but i’m sure jassi’s uncle has nothing to do with, i pray to Waheguru for Mithoo, he has been thru so much, and I also pray thta Jassi’s mother lives another 100 years, beacause even if she is never indicted... at some point in life your demons catch up with you... and i hope she lives a long lonely and guilt ridden life for what she has done... and one day when she comes face to face with God, to try an explain what she has done... HE WILL ENSURE THAT JUSTICE PREVAILS! the canadian police won’t
How happy is your country?
Posted on 12 Oct 06 at 06:53
The police believe he routinely extorted producers and then went on to produce some films himself. Just because they both use the word “nuclear”. This is like assuming that a person trained as a softball player has learnt the right stuff to be a Canadian football quaterback.
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