Dre & I headed out for a spring skiing romp on Mt Fissile just outside of the WHistler ski resort. a quick 3 hrs there, and 30 min down, then back trough singing pass. good times. steep skiing, decent snow. April 2007.

This video was taken during two days hiking trip to the top of Mt. Fissile. Full high-def footage of this video is available @ http://idisk.mac.com/igor.stelmashenko-Public?view=web Photos @ http://gallery.mac.com/igor.stelmashenko#100024&bgcolor=black&view=mosaic&sel=0

2008

Skiing the NW face of Fissile Peak, near Whistler BC

ウィスラーのゲレンデからアクセスできる山、フィッシル。 山小屋一泊のトリップに行ってきました。

ウィスラーからアクセスできる山、Fssileに行ってきました。 ２日目の映像です。

The bottom part of the Fissile North West Face

Time Lapse of Clouds over Fissile Peak

Tom DK and I, climbing down a snow couloir to Overload glacier on Fissile Mountain

Skiing off Fissile. Whistler backcountry

Panorama of hut area

The Rev. Robert Moore Executive Director Coalition for Peace Action 40 Witherspoon Street Princeton, NJ 08542 (609) 924-5022 Phone (609) 924-3052 Fax http://www.peacecoalition.org Frank von Hippel, a nuclear physicist, is a Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He has worked on fissile material policy issues for the past 30 years including those relating to commercialization of plutonium recycle, ending the production of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium for weapons, and ending the use of highly enriched uranium as a reactor fuel. In 1993-4, he served as Assistant Director for National Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellow durng 1993-8. He is currently Co-Chair of the International Panel on Fissile Materials.

Great Britan's first nuclear weapons test, code named "Hurricane". Hurricane was the culmination of many years of nuclear research conducted by Great Britain, the start of which dated back to 1940 when Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls made the first theoretically sound critical mass calculations. The site chosen for the test was at the Monte Bello Islands off the West Coast of Australia. In September 1950, Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies made an agreement with Great Britain to use Australia as a nuclear test site in exchange for nuclear technology. The Hurricane device was very similar to the U.S. Mk-3 "Fatman" plutonium implosion bomb. Since the Windscale nuclear plant was unable to manufacture the necessary plutonium needed by August 1, 1952 for the test, some Canadian plutonium was also used in the core of the atomic device. The device used a levitated pit, which not only increased the power of the bomb, but also served as a safety precaution as the core could be inserted into the device shortly before the firing. At Woolwich the high explosives assembly was prepared for the implosion device. It was decided to fire the bomb inside the hull of the River-class frigate HMS Plym. This was done so that the effects of a nuclear detonation on board a ship could be understood, simulating the scenario of a nuclear device being smuggled into a harbor and detonated. While a tower detonation would be more adequate for the collection of diagnostic data, a ship detonation was used because it presented a more 'realistic' option in terms of information gathered for civil defense purposes. The atomic device, minus the plutonium core, was loaded on the HMS Plym at Sheerness dockyard prior to its ten thousand mile voyage. The escort carrier HMS Campania, the flagship of the convey, set sail from Portsmouth bound for the Monte Bello Islands on June 10, 1952. Lead by Captain A.D. Torlesse, the expedition to test Britain's first atomic device consisted of five ships and 1,500 personnel. Concern arose about the possible crash of the fissile core transport aircraft and a peculiar contingency plan was formulated. The core would be contained in a case that would float in water, in the event of a crash into the sea. Prior to bailing out of the aircraft, one of the crew members would collect the case and parachute to the ocean holding it at all times. The fissile core was safely delivered to the Monte Bello Islands on September 15, 1952. The day before the shot one remaining scientist on board the HMS Plym switched on and armed the firing circuits. He then delivered a master switch to the control bunker where the firing circuit was completed. Hurricane was fired in the lagoon 400 yards off Trimouille Island at 59:24 on October 3, 1952 (GMT). The explosion had a yield of 25 kilotons and vaporized the HMS Plym. The device itself was located 8 feet under the water line and 40 feet above the ocean floor. The resulting explosion left a crater on the lagoon seabed 20 feet deep and 1,000 feet across. Small fires were caused by the explosion on Trimouille Island. The cloud from the explosion rose to an altitude of 15,000 feet. This was a low altitude for such a test mainly due to the dry air at the time and the presence of a strong inversion layer at that altitude. The blast was observed by men stationed at the Control Point on Hermite Island and from the HMS Campania, which had put to sea for the shot. William Penney observed the explosion from the HMS Campania. Heavy contamination was recorded north of the blast zone by the first survey teams that re-entered the site shortly after the blast to collect instruments. The southerly Leeuwin current would carry much of the fallout back toward the western Australian coast. One of the landing craft was sunk due to contamination and 30 barrels of radioactive waste collected during clean up operations was dumped into the sea. In November 1953, the first nuclear weapon entered the British stockpile. The Blue Danube plutonium bomb was based mainly on the Hurricane design and was technically similar to the U.S. Mk-4. The weapon used a 60 inch, 32 lens implosion system and a levitated core suspended within a hollow uranium tamper.

Mike Chinoy, Pacific Council on International Policy (Oct 1, 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs) When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Koreas nuclear program was frozen. Kim Jong-Il had signaled to the outgoing Clinton administration he was ready to negotiate an end to his missile program. Today, North Korea has become a full-fledged nuclear power, with enough fissile material to manufacture as many as ten more warheads. How did the United States fail to prevent a long-standing adversary like North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons? Longtime CNN correspondent and North Korea expert Mike Chinoy addressed this issue and his new book Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.

WARNING: DO NOT POST RACIST, INSULTING, OR RUDE COMMENTS. ANY USER WHO POSTS MESSAGES INSULTING CHINA OR THIS PARTICULAR VIDEO WILL HAVE THEIR SHARE! The date 1964-10-16 is a very meaningful date to the People's Republic of China. It is the day that China showed its true military power. It was the day on which China became the world's fifth nuclear nation. On November 16, 1964, China succesfully detonated its first atomic bomb. It was a 22-kiloton implosion-triggered device that used only Uranium-235 (which was the only fissile material available at that time), exploded over the Lop-Nur test site. At the time of the test, the U.S. had already threatened China five times with nuclear attack. So, WHAT NOW, America? The Chinese nuclear program started in the late 1950s, and the code-name "02" was given by Communist chairman Mao Zedong. The bomb was set to detonate on a 102-meter high tower. The bomb was exploded at 7:00 GMT. The lesson for the day? DON'T MESS WITH CHINA! *Interesting fact: China developed and detonated its own hydrogen bomb only TWO YEARS (shortest time for any country) after its first atomic bomb test. China also managed to design and build its own nuclear missiles. This clip was taken from the documentary "Trinity And Beyond" Directed By: Peter Kuran Music By: William T. Stromberg Narrated By: William Shatner

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In this episode, former Senator Sam Nunn and co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, along with Graham Allison and Matthew Bunn, discuss ways in which we might limit the spread of nuclear weapons. This episode is part of a continuing series based on Graham Allison's book "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe" Produced by George Billard, Edited by Katie Mantell. For More info visit www.nuclearterrorism.tv

In this age of increasing "Global Transparency", commercial satellite imagery has now made it possible for anyone to remote peer over the fence and view what heretofore had been otherwise impossible...clandestine nuclear facilities (most significantly, those capable of producing fissile suitable for use in nuclear weapons). The synergistic combination of readily available tools: personal computers, the internet, three-dimensional virtual globe visualization applications such as Google Earth, and high resolution commercial satellite imagery has gone beyond what anyone could have imaged just a few years ago. The down-side of all this is that those who want to keep their clandestine nuclear facilities and associated activities from being either detected, identified, and/or monitored, are becoming more adept in their use of camouflage, concealment, and deception.

Senator Joe Biden talks about avoiding war with Iran. He quoted from declassified sections of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released Monday which said, "Tehran halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003," and although they continue to process uranium, the NIE timetable for processing "fissile material" into a nuclear weapon is no earlier than 2009 but could happen between 2010 and 2015. He said war with Iran is not inevitable.

Several amazing views of Great Britain's "Grapple-Orange Herald" shot. Following the Short Granite shot, preparations were quickly made for the following Orange Herald (Small) test. It was intended to use some thermonuclear fuel in the device but could be fired as a pure fission weapon if safety problems arose. The bomb arrived at Christmas Island, in three separate loads, on May 13. The process of unpacking, dismantling, inspecting, and partially re-assembling took two weeks. Final assembly was done on May 27. RAF and Aldermaston personnel fitted the high explosive assembly around the fissile core and then placed the outside hemispheres with great precision around the whole. During this process, the upper hemisphere stuck while being screwed onto the device by an RAF officer. After two hours of no success in trying to unscrew it, it was decided to hit the hemisphere with a small sledge hammer. The desperate measure worked and work continued. By the end of the day the core, electronics, firing circuits, and telemetry instruments, were installed. Rehearsal airdrops were conducted, as done prior to the Short Granite shot. Heavy rains and flooding on Christmas Island, coupled with an outbreak of the flu, hindered the preparations. An operational rehearsal was conduced on May 28. The weather conditions improved and the firing date was set for May 31. The firing phase began as it did with the previous shot. On shot day, the operation went smoothly until an instrument malfunction in the Valiant drop plane resulted in a high speed stall. This stall occurred after the bomb had already been released and disaster was avoided by superb airmanship by the flight crew. Orange Herald (Small) detonated with a force equivalent to 720 kilotons of TNT. This was a record yield for this type of device. It was unsure if any boosting took place and eventually it was considered negligible.

It's "just Politics"? SOROS BANKROLLS dozens of activists groups created to attack so-called "FEAR-MONGERING" conseratives. Yet the U.N's Atomic Energy Agency has called attention to Iran's SECRET WEAPONS PROGRAM: FROM: AP, July 13, 2007- Because plutonium and enriched uranium can be used as the fissile core of warheads, the U.N. Security Council DEMANDED A STOP not only to enrichment but also to construction at the Arak project. Also sought was FULL OPENNESS on more than TWO DECADES of nuclear activities that went undetected only until revealed by an Iranian dissident group [associated with Alireza Jafarzadeh] four years ago. GOOGLE: Alireza Jafarzadeh ALSO, Wikipedia aricles on Natanz, Isfahan and Arak.

http://cnewq5i.blogspot.com Article on unproven systems: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/24/MNGD66AGVP1.DTL Hair trigger alert status: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1217-01.htm Full text: "I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning and as president, I will end it. Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems, and I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the quadrennial defense review is not used to justify unnecessary spending. Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal I will not develop new nuclear weapons, I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material, and I will negociate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hairtrigger alert and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals."

Part 1 of a video by the Energy and transport Directorate-General regarding the safegaurd of nuclear fission waste- 'For fifty years, European Commission inspectors have been verifying in nuclear installations that fissile material is not diverted from its intended peaceful use. How do these European inspectors work? What are they checking? Examples in a classic nuclear power plant and in the French reprocessing plant at La Hague where several hundred kilos of nuclear material are recycled each year. December 2004. Source- http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport/publication/videos_en.htm#nuclear_inspection

On the 11th of Nov Scotty and I hiked in 14km for an early weekend of skiing. Little did we know what to expect.

Quanto ancora il mondo potrà andare avanti con i combustibili fossili? E quelli fissili?