Sergei Ryzhov, the chief designer of the nuclear reactors built by Russia in foreign countries, including India, was among those killed.
The whole leadership of the designers units of Russia's state nuclear corporation was killed when the Tu-134 passenger plane crash landed in the northern republic of Karelia.
"The UK discharges more radioactivity into the sea than any other nation.
"As the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed to us, Sellafield is the largest recorded source of radioactive discharge in the world...
"We found, for example, that the Swedes could identify radioactive traces in fish off their coast being largely attributable to Sellafield."
- House of Commons Environment Select Committee, February 1986
Sellafield (formerly known as Windscale) is a nuclear processing and former electricity generating site, on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.
Ramaswami Ashok Kumar, an Indian expert on nuclear power, has presented statistical evidence that reveals nuclear pollution from Sellafield was carried by ocean currents to India.
Kumar reported that Indian infant mortality rates increased in the first year or two after large releases occurred at Windscale/Sellafield, and then decreased towards the end of the year.
Sellafield has been responsible for the nuclear material Tc-99 [Technetium-99] found in lobsters, seaweed and cod off the UK's coast. Tc-99 from the facility has been washed as far as Norway.
During four years of nuclear bomb tests from 1957-1963, radioactive pollution caused a 50% decline in fishing catch in the North Atlantic and 65% in the Pacific.
In Japan, plutonium is created as a by-product of the nuclear energy industry.
In 1995, Japan was reported to have 4.7 tons of plutonium, enough for around 700 nuclear warheads.
Japan has a uranium enrichment plant which could be used to make highly enriched uranium suitable for weapon use.
Japan has developed the M-V three-stage solid fuel rocket, similar in design to the U.S. LGM-118A Peacekeeper ICBM, which could serve as a delivery vehicle for nuclear weapons. (Japanese nuclear weapon program - Wikipedia)
To measure radiation, scientists use the unit known as the sievert (Sv) – divided into thousandths (millisieverts or mSv) and millionths (microsieverts or µSv).
The figures below show typical exposure levels and their effects:
2 mSv per year - typical background exposure from the environment (actual level depends on altitude, natural radioactivity of local rocks, etc)
2.4 mSv per year - average dose to US nuclear industry workers
9 mSv per year - exposure to airline crew flying regularly between New York and Tokyo
20 mSv per year - current limit (averaged) for nuclear industry employees and uranium miners
100 mSv per year - lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident
"Articles about the possibility that Chernobyl 'accident' was staged by foreign secret service agencies started to emerge in the Russian press (Sovietskaya Rossiya, June 16, 1992, April 25, 1996, Za Ruskoe Delo 6, 38, 1996, Trud, April 26, 1995) and elsewhere, recently reappearing on Pravda.ru (February, 2004) .
"These allegations were based on observations that, under scrutiny:
"It is unlikely that the sequence of events that led to the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor could have been accidental"
"Technicians who disconnected the safety mechanisms of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,Alexandrov, Feinberg, Sagdeev, Zaslavsky,are now living in comfort abroad."
"Conspiracy theory: ... set off a global disaster that will upset/reset the world economy.
"Since the economy is essentially one big Ponzi scheme, blaming the scheme's collapse on a 'causeless' catastrophic event like this poses the only way to preempt the real reason: because we've run out of money to prop up the pyramid.
Willie McRae was found badly injured in his crashed car.
The car was on a remote road in Wester Ross in Scotland.
At the local hospital, medical staff found a gunshot wound behind McRae's right ear.
The police found 'the weapon' some distance from the car.
There were no fingerprints on the gun.
A BBC journalist was given the number plates of three cars alleged to have been following MacRae before his death.
Reportedly, one of the cars was a 'blocked vehicle' from one of the security services.
One of the cars used to trail McRae "was a Triumph, registration number PSJ 136X. Wherever McRae went, that car followed.
"He had noticed the motor. Willie McRae was nobody's fool. When he raised the matter with a friendly cop, he checked the computer.
"The car came up marked as 'blocked vehicle'. That's shorthand for belonging to the Special Branch" or intelligence services. (The McRae Mystery - The Daily Record)
Former Scottish National Party vice-chairman Willie McRae
McRae was a top man in the Scottish National Party (SNP).
And he was an anti-nuclear campaigner.
Many people assume that McRae was murdered by the spooks.
John Finnie is an SNP councillor and a former policeman.
John Finnie has asked Scotland's top legal officer, Lord Advocate Elish Angiolini, to look at the case. (Call for SNP activist death probe)
Angiolini, originally appointed by a Labour party government, is seen by some as being part of the Lockerbie cover-up.
Finnie has asked Angiolini to release any official details so far kept secret.
In a letter to Angiolini, the SNP group leader on Highland Council said:
"The circumstances of Willie McRae's death, and the subsequent investigation, have led to a quarter of a century of speculation and public disquiet.
"Public confidence in the functions of state is very important...
"I ask you to ... institute a full investigation into all the circumstances surrounding the death of Willie McRae."
McRae's car
It was in 1985 that Glasgow lawyer Willie MacRae was found unconscious in his car near Kintail in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands. (Willie Macrae murder part 1 )
He died soon after.
It looked as if his car had crashed.
Then it was reported that MacRae had been killed by a gun fired at his head. ( Scottish News Headlines )
Two bullets had been fired.
The Lord Advocate (chief legal officer in Scotland) claimed that the gun was found beneath the door of the car.
This was contradicted by the policeman who found the gun, and by those involved in recovering MacRae from his car.
A BBC journalist was given a list of three car number plates alleged to have been following MacRae before his death.
Reportedly, one of the cars was a 'blocked vehicle' from one of the security services.
No fatal accident inquiry was held.
MacRae had been active in the campaign to prevent nuclear dumping in Scotland.
The Thatcher government wanted to dump nuclear waste in the Galloway Hills in Dumfries and Galloway, at Mullwharchar.
MacRae had been a vice-chairman of the Scottish National Party, and was seen as a possible future leader.
MacRae was the author of the maritime law code of Israel and emeritus professor in the University of Haifa.
MacRae had served in military intelligence.
McCrae had been working on a book on the nuclear industry. The papers he was working on have never been recovered.
Reportedly, MacRae told friends shortly before his death, "I've got them."
Chapelcross produced much of the plutonium for Britain's nuclear bombs.
Chapelcross produced tritium, used in Trident warheads.
Tritium can cause cancer and can cause permanent changes to people's genes.
Humans can be injured by tritium if they eat plants or animals containing tritium.
Chapelcross disposed of liquid effluent through a pipeline into the Solway Firth.
Dumfries and Galloway has also been affected by sea pollution from the Sellafield nuclear plant and by the firing of depleted uranium shells near Kirkcudbright.
Hilda Murrell was also murdered.
Gary Murray, in his book Enemies of the State: A Sensational Exposé of the Security Services by a former MI5 Undercover Agent, describes McRae as the "most formidable opponent in Scotland" of the Nuclear industry.
Murray lists similarities between the deaths of Hilda Murrell and Willie MacRae:
1. Red Escort observed at scene
2. Activities of interest to M15, Special Branch, Atomic Energy Police
3. About to appear at public hearing dealing with nuclear issues
4. Passionate antinuclear campaigner
5. Under surveillance by Security Services
6. Witnesses overlooked by police investigators
7. Drove/driven to death scene in own vehicle
8. Death scene: quiet country spot outside of town
9. Victim was said to have discovered something specific about nuclear industry
10. Authorities refused Enquiry into death and murder investigation wound up
11. Conflict in official statements about evidence
12. Victim's property broken into and burned down
13. Anomalies concerning nuclear papers
14. Associates and friends attempting to pursue the case become victims of burglary and/or acts of violence or damage to property.
Judith Cook wrote a book, 'Who Killed Hilda Murrell, Unlawful Killing', about the murder of anti-nuclear campaigner Hilda Murrell.
She quoted an "MI5 operative" who told her that Miss Murrell had indeed died after disturbing operatives searching the house. Two of the men had gone "berserk" and killed her.
In 2006, Chris Huhne reportedly refused to answer a journalist's question about whether he had been responsible for the break-up of his wife's first marriage. (Chris Huhne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Chris Huhne's actress mother Ann Murray, from Toronto, allegedly played Clark Kent's mum in one of the Superman movies. (Chris Huhne@Everything2.com)
Reportedly, the rather mysterious Chris Huhne has Jewish connections.
Chris Huhne was one of fourteen MPs forming an all-party parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism in the UK.
Their report criticised boycotts of Israeli academics as "an assault on academic freedom and intellectual exchange" and accused "some left-wing activists and Muslim extremists [...] of using criticism of Israel as 'a pretext' for spreading hatred against British Jews". ("Critics of Israel 'fuelling hatred of British Jews'").
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