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A Tosa resident since 1991, Christine walks the dog, cooks but avoids housework, writes and reads, and enjoys the company of friends and strangers. Her job takes her around the state, learning about people's health. A Quaker (no, they don't wear blue hats or sell oatmeal or motor oil), she has been known to stand on both sides of the political and philosophic fence at the same time, which is very uncomfortable when you think about it. She writes about pretty much whatever stops in to visit her busy mind at the moment. One reader described her as "incredibly opinionated but not judgmental." That sounds like a good thing to strive for!
Oshkosh Corp: The book, not the movie
The triumph of Oshkosh Corporation (Truck) in winning a big defense contract away from BAE Systems in Texas is satisfying on all sorts of levels. We cheer the local team, the Davids when they take on Goliath. Our ideas about how competition works are satisfied when the low bidder gets the job-and when he's our guy.
So what's not to like about $3.2 billion and the good it can bring to our neighbors up Highway 41?
Our gain is someone else's loss. We're not talking about a net gain in jobs creation as much as a shift. Whatever positive employment and economic impact the contract will have in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, chances are the negative impact on the good people of Sealy, Texas, is greater. I've seen mention of creating 800 jobs at Truck, a number that seems inflated. And not all of them will be in Wisconsin. But 3,000 jobs may be lost in Sealy, a town of less than 6,000 souls where the only other major employer, with 800 employees, is Walmart.
To gear up for increased business, the state of Wisconsin and the city of Oshkosh are anteing up a considerable chunk of money, some $40 million to Truck's $11 million. The money is going into bricks and mortar and tools, strictly physical stuff held (and eventually owned) by the business. It's money not spent on schools, health, or community infrastructure.
If all goes well, Truck will continue to provide jobs and paychecks, make purchases from local businesses, and generally feed the economy. Everyone will live happily for as long as it works that way.
However, the overall benefit to the community is a little fuzzier than it appears at first glance.
The Oshkosh city monies come from creating a Tax Incremental Fund (TIF). The existing business will be taxed as it has been. But revenue generated from the new TIF development will not be added to the general tax funds during the 5 year period of the $3 billion contract—or for another 20 years after it ends. Instead, it goes to repay the development bonds. So while the need for schools, sewers, public safety, and the rest of services a community needs to stay strong and function well increase with the development, the funds to support them don't.
If you're a private property owner near the new TIF district, the value of your property will increase along with theirs. Your taxes will increase.
If anything goes wrong, the taxpayers hold the bag. That may not seem like a major concern, given Truck's recent history. It may be an extremely good investment. But the $3.2 billion lowball bid sliced the profit margin very close to the bone. Moody's recently upgraded Oshkosh Corps' corporate family rating and probability of default rating from B2 to B1—but that's still a junk status rating.
TIF instruments were created as a way to pay for projects for the public benefit where private funding wasn't available. More recently, they've been used for shopping malls and other questionable "public interest" projects. It would be prudent for citizens to ask some thoughtful questions about the Oshkosh Corporation as a public good.
Sealy, Texas, is learning the hard way how dangerous it is to be a one-big-industry town. Is Truck on the verge of being the business too big to fail in Oshkosh? With 62,000 people, Oshkosh is a more economically diverse community. But there's only so much Miles Kimball business to rely on for sustainablity. A strong community might want to put eggs in several baskets.
Then there's the elephant in the room: the war economy. How long will the military need armored trucks for Afghanistan—or for the next place to which the endless war front shifts?
Since I oppose war, I pray for its end. But even more hawkish types must be asking, along with Marketwatch's Paul Farrell, how long Americans will choose "to surrender 54% of their tax dollars to a war machine, which consumes 47% of the world's total military budgets?" Private fortunes for the few are as much the outcome of this choice as real security for the many.
I hope Truck does well and the people of Oshkosh prosper. Maybe the city will finally outlive the reputation the city earned in the 1890s, when it was a one-business mill town known as "the slave wage capital of the world."
But I tell my nephew who works at Truck to have an "exit plan." Work hard, collect overtime, save like a madman, and have your lifeboat ready. Just in case things go bad – or things get better. Either way.
I hope the city is doing the same.
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For special education teacher Damon Collier, it's the little victories with his students that make him love his job.
One of those triumphs happened with a 10-year-old autistic boy.
"He wanted independence and, prior to entering my class, he had two one-on-one aides that were with him all the time and he was always climbing on things he shouldn't," said Collier, a teacher at Glen Paul School in Eureka. "After three weeks of having him, he was able to have lunch in the same classroom as the other students. This year, he had a birthday party at McDonalds for the first time ever with peers and staff -- that's something his parents never would have imagined he would have been able to do."
Special education teacher Clay Carver recalled a similar turning point.
He recalled how a student with cerebral palsy -- who was acting out in class -- just needed someone to sit and talk to him.
"When he came to me, he would have fits when multiple people were around him because he couldn't see what was going on," Carver said. "With patience and time, a nurse figured it out and he began feeding himself, laughing and talking to us with what words he knew. To see the light bulb go on and know that they can use a skill everywhere is one of the best parts."
Collier and Carver both talked about the freedom the students have to be who they want to be without the worry of being embarrassed or judged by others.
These are the lessons the teachers are trying to pass on to a team of doctors who are visiting Humboldt County from Vladivostok, Siberia.
On Friday, the students at Glen Paul participated in an all-school sing along where teachers and staff played music and the kids were able to dance without a care in the world. The doctors were there to observe how the students have been integrated into the educational system -- a shift that Russia is currently in the process of making.
"Russia is where the United States was about 50 years ago and their legislature has passed laws to integrate children into society," said Dr. Kim Bauriedel, organizer of the exchange for the Rotary Club of Eureka. "The team has come to learn how we help kids with disabilities and integrate them into society, and they want to get ideas on how to modify our system for their society."
Bauriedel added that most children with disabilities are taken from their families and sent to orphanages or boarding schools in Russia, but the visiting team has come to help change that.
"Some people think having disabilities is infectious, and we have to change that way of thinking," said team translator Maria Egorcheva. "Not all people are like that, but there are some."
Primorsky Regional Out-Patient Clinic cardiologist and team leader Olga Topchiy said there are changes that need to be made and they are here to learn how to help the Russian government understand that children with disabilities are not different from other students in their desire to learn and thrive.
"There have been some changes over the years, but we have a lot of work to do still," Topchiy said.
Elena Ibragimova, head of the mother and child health care department at the Primorsky Territory Healthcare Ministry, said children are first observed by doctors and teachers are usually the last ones to see them.
"As doctors, our job is to help integrate students and work directly with teachers instead of having them come in at the end of the process," Ibragimova said.
Carver said the earlier a child with special needs can be reached the better.
"When students are seen earlier, I see less severe needs because training is happening earlier," Carver said. "I have a son with special needs and I've learned a lot from him -- to enjoy life, help people and don't worry about what others think. I hope the doctors are able to see a more educational system instead of just medical, but the children do still need medical -- there needs to be a mix."
During their week-long visit, the team -- which is part of the international Rotary Club -- participated in training with the Humboldt County Office of Education and observed classrooms with moderate to severely disabled students ranging in age from birth to high school, according to Humboldt-Del Norte Special Education Local Plan Area Director Mindy Fattig.
"The team will observe how students with disabilities learn, and how other students respond to them," Fattig said. "My job will be to help with the next step after they do observations."
Head of Vladivostok Clinical Diagnostical Center Anzhella Kabieva said people all around the world have the same dream of reaching their full potential.
"The idea is that we have to tell each other that we're the same," Kabieva said. "There's no difference between people with disabilities and people without disabilities."
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Well, that really is more like it. After the dull, rusty Iron Man 2 - and the superhero franchise fusion that was last year's The Avengers - Iron Man 3 risked being a bad idea or a bit of an afterthought.
Sure, it offered another chance for Robert Downey jnr to do his Tony Stark schtick and shiny suit quick-change act. As a character, though, Iron Man comes with an in-built problem or two. With Stark and his robo-onesie, there was no alter-ego, just a super-ego care of Stark, the "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist".
So being a superhero without a secret identity - or mysteriously-acquired super-abilities to become disenchanted with - could mean fewer possible legs for any sequel stories to stand on.
But if part three risked being one Iron Man movie too many, then it sure doesn't take long to be convinced otherwise.
It might run a little long, but this is easily the best and biggest of the IM flicks and a world away in terms of sheer spectacle from 2008's humble but hilarious original.
Director-writer Shane Black - taking over from Jon Favreau who still appears as Stark's bodyguard Happy - brings a smart story to drive all the explosive action. It's one which connects nicely to The Avengers - dealing with those aliens has left Stark a bit stressed - but still stands on its own as a trilogy closer.
And it attempts to provide an answer to why Stark's super-friends aren't around to help. "This is America's problem," we're told about the hunt for terrorist. "The Mandarin" (er, paging Captain America ... ). The hooded Bin Laden-like figure (Kingsley) seems to be conducting a bombing campaign without bombs. He's soon targeting Stark, before moving on to Air Force One and it appears he's in cahoots with Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce with Bee Gee hair), a brilliant scientist with past connections to Stark and his partner Pepper Potts (Paltrow). Complicating matters is Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall) an old flame of Stark's who turns up just as the cliff-top mansion he shares with Potts undergoes some major renovations which leaves it a smoking ruin - and Stark and his damaged Iron Man suit in a small town on the other side of the country with only a smart kid, Harley (Ty Simpkins), for help.
All of which which might seem a straightforward story. Bond with kid, catch the bad guy, fight to the death, save the day. But it's not. It's a funny juggling act of a plot which offers up two, possibly more, villains.
And among the funniest aspects of this - outside Downey's comic timing - is the casting of Brit Kingsley as that baddie, which becomes a sort of meta-joke about Brit thespians getting cast as supervillains.
Stark's scenes with the kid thankfully, aren't there just to appeal to the movie's pre-teen audience, with Downey delivering some wry tough-love one-liners to his young offsider.
And talking of mates, though they spend a good deal of the movie in separate time zones, Downey and Don Cheadle as James Rhodes - his air force buddy given the task of piloting his own suit with the focus-grouped name "Iron Patriot" - eventually join forces to do what has to be done.
Their wisecracking partnership might be in a superhero movie but it reminds of past crime-fighting duos Black created as a writer in the scripts of various Lethal Weapons, The Last Boy Scout or his last movie with Downey, the underrated Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Yes there is a little too much of everything and some of that 3D high-flying action lacks a bit of clarity.
But Downey's great, again, Paltrow's Potts remains the reigning champ of screen superhero girlfriends and Black's delivery of this rip-roaring story makes Iron Man 3 a seriously good upgrade on its predecessors.
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Cast: Robert Downey jnr, Gywneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley
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Running time: 130 mins
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MANILA CITY, METRO MANILA—Health Secretary Enrique Ona is is supporting the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) in enforcing a metro-wide smoking ban despite a halt order by a local court.
The Mandaluyong City Regional Trial Court (Branch 213) issued a temporary restraining order after a complaint filed by two employees caught smoking in front of Farmer's Market in Cubao, ruling that the ban does not cover sidewalks and public thoroughfares.
MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino said the TRO is only a "temporary setback" and that it would not stop the agency from pursuing health-related advocacies pursuant to Republic Act 7924, which mandates MMDA to promote public health, safety and sanitation, urban protection and pollution control.
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Walsh, Patrick Paul and Whelan, Ciara (2002) Product differentiation and firm size distribution: an application to carbonated soft drinks. EI, 31. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Using brand-level retail data, the firm size distribution in carbonated soft drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, diet attributes) segments of the market. Regularity of the firm size distribution is not disturbed by the nature of short-run brand competition (turbulence in brand market share) within segments. Remarkably, product differentiation resulting from firms acquiring various portfolios of product attributes and stores in market evolution determines the limiting firm size distribution.
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If nothing else, AMD's unexpected acquisition of swashbuckling server startup SeaMicro has reignited the chip designer's long-running rivalry with Intel.
Earlier this week, Intel general manager Diane Bryant told Wired that before selling itself to AMD, SeaMicro had approached Intel about an acquisition — and that Intel had turned the company down. Bryant went so far as say Intel "wasn't even interested" in SeaMicro's core technology, a server "fabric" that lets the startup connect hundreds of low-power processors within a single server chassis.
But now, in an email to Wired, a SeaMicro representative tells us that the company did not shop itself to Intel. "At no time did a SeaMicro executive, employee, agent, [or] banker approach Intel about selling SeaMicro to them," the company representative sells.
Intel declined to comment further on the matter.
Before SeaMicro was purchased by AMD, it had a close partnership with Intel. SeaMicro began life offering machines built with hundreds of Intel Atom chips — Intel processors originally designed for mobile devices — and little more than a month ago, the two companies held a joint press conference to announce new SeaMicro servers that use Intel's Xeon processor. SeaMicro also points out that Intel designed a processor specifically for SeaMicro's server: a 64-bit Atom chip.
In an email statement sent to Wired, SeaMicro board member Fred Weber took issue with Tuesday's comments from Diane Bryant, who runs Intel's data center and connected systems group. "I think she has gotten a bit ahead of herself truth wise," he wrote. "It is disappointing since all the interactions between SeaMicro and Intel executives to date have been professional, constructive, and mutually beneficial. It had left me with a very positive impression of Intel. The integrated data-center server combining networking, storage, cloud level processing and virtualization and enabling new levels of density and power efficiency will be the battle ground of the next decade, so I suppose the stakes are unusually high."
SeaMicro was at the forefront of an effort to save businesses space and power by offering servers equipped with processors not unlike the one in your cell phone. In some ways, this movement is threat to Intel, whose brawnier Xeon processors are the current kings of the data center. But at least until last week, Intel fully supported the SeaMicro effort, and the chip maker is exploring so-called "wimpy core" server processors at its lab in Pennsylvania on the campus of Carnegie Melon University.
The main threat to Intel comes from ARM, the outfit whose chip designs drive so many of the world's smartphones and tablets. A Texas startup called Calxeda is developing servers equipped with ARM chips, and AMD has strongly hinted that it will license ARM's technology in the near future. Though the company will not address the issue specifically, it indicated that it will use ARM chips in tandem with SeaMicro's server fabric.
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Let's take your last question first - yes, gender matters when it comes to alcohol. Men and women process alcohol differently - in fact, despite size, men can get away with drinking more than women.
I am 5'8 and weigh about 138 lbs. A man who is also 5' 8" and weighs 138 lbs will more than likely be in better shape after 5 drinks that I'll be. Even if he weighs 120lbs!
We all have the enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase that helps process alcohol in our system. And men's seems to work better than women, no matter their size. And even more confusingly - no-one is quite sure why. Studies have shown that alcohol dehydrogenase is the factor in stopping someone from getting drunk. Women's alcohol dehydrogenase is less effective, allowing 30% more alcohol into their bloodstreams that in the bloodstreams of men. Ounce for ounce of alcoholic, it looks like men can better process alcohol with this enzyme at a rate of 2:1. So a man would have to drink twice what a woman drinks to get the same effect.
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Very thin women are more prone to osteoporosis - whether this is due to being "small boned" is anyone's guess because if they gained some weight, they may no longer be considered small boned. And very thin women may get osteoporosis because their diet may not have enough calcium and Vitamin D. For others, it could be a genetic propensity, low estrogen levels, not exercising/lifting weights or smoking.
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Hi Everyone – A bit background before my question. My neighbor has a sister who lives in Mesquite, NV. My neighbor was telling me how beautiful the state is and that there are a lot of great hiking areas in Nevada. I got a copy of "Backpacking Nevada: From Slickrock Canyons to Granite Summits" by Mike White. I was amazed at the beautiful areas!
So my question is this: have any of you done any backpacking trips in Nevada and do you have any favorite places?
Thanks so much!Oct 30, 2012 at 6:22 pm #1925480
Nevada is big state with varied terrain, from hot deserts to 11,000+ foot mountains.
If you are going to Mesquite, that is special. Close to all the picturesque places in Utah, fairly close to the Grand Canyon, and real close to Lake Mead NRA.
I hike there often because there aren't many people to contend with. Every December I do a hike somewhere in the southeast part of the state.
This December I might do a trip to Gold Butte, one of my favorite places in Nevada. It is close to Mesquite.
Here are a couple trip reports I wrote for my kids.
Edited to fix links. BPL really needs to upgrade this.Oct 30, 2012 at 6:43 pm #1925487
Thanks, Nick! I'll check out your trip reports. Looking through the book on backpacking Nevada, there really is a lot of variety in the state. I hope to do some trips there soon.Oct 30, 2012 at 6:55 pm #1925490
Opps… seems the files were private. I fixed them so anyone can view them. Darn cloud thingy.Oct 30, 2012 at 8:41 pm #1925516
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Thanks Nick!Nov 3, 2012 at 12:54 am #1926110
Thanks, Nick!Nov 3, 2012 at 7:56 am #1926127
James ArriolaBPL Member
@ravs4funLocale: Desert Southwest
There are lots of great backpacking areas in Nevada. A lot of them depend on the season and water sources. In the summer we all head to the mountains and the other seasons we venture into the desert. Since I live in Southern Nevada I can give you a few good ideas on backpacking around Las Vegas.
In the warmer months MT. Charleston or the Spring Mountain NRA is the place to go. There are lots of great backpacking trails around the MT. Charleston areas. The MT. Charleston peak trail is about 18 miles RT and goes up to the 11,919 foot peak. The Bonanza Trail is a good weekend trip but requires a car shuttle.
Red Rock Canyon is a great day hiking area and it does get a lot of day traffic since its really close to Las Vegas. You can backpack at Red Rock but you have to camp at 5,500 feet or higher which puts on up high or on the backside of Red Rock.
The Lake Mead NRA has a ton of great areas to explore as Nick has stated. You might have to carry all of your water depending on your location you select. There are some established trails but mostly you pick an area and go for it. Bowl of Fire, Pinto Valley and some trails leading down to the Colorado River are really nice trips.
Valley of Fire State Park is a great place to visit and has some shorter day hikes. Backpacking is not really allowed because of the lack of longer trails and no water sources.
The Muddy Mountains Wilderness area near Lake Mead and Valley of Fire is one of the best desert backpacking areas in Southern Nevada. Lots of beautiful scenery, solitude, and some amazing prehistoric rock art if you can find it.
The Gold Butte area is pretty amazing. Most of the trips there you would have to look at a topo and just go. Don't forget its pretty remote and carry lots of water.
I have limited backpacking trips throughout the rest of the state. The Ruby Crest Trail near Elko is probably the best longer trip in the state. The trail is about 43 miles long and almost every night you can camp at a beautiful alpine lake. Part of the Tahoe Crest Trails runs along the Nevada portion of Lake Tahoe.
I hope you are able to have some amazing trips. If you have any questions PM me.Nov 3, 2012 at 8:29 am #1926132
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+1 on Nevada
My recommendation for high desert is Great Basin Nat'l Park. While you are on your way to various adventures, be sure to check out the petroglyph sites.Nov 4, 2012 at 12:13 pm #1926331
Agree with James on Red Rock Canyon.
Another Lake Mead area trip reportNov 9, 2012 at 7:59 am #1927271
Thanks so much, guys, for the great information. Nevada has so much beauty! And I originally thought of it as just empty desert where the military blew up bombs! Silly me, I know.
I am definitely going to explore some of the areas you've recommended. I read somewhere that the backpacking in the mountains of Nevada is as good as in the Sierras, but without the crowds.
Thanks again. I knew I could count on you! :)Nov 9, 2012 at 8:02 am #1927274
Thanks so much, James. I was reading about the Elko area and it sounded great. I'll definitely get in touch if I have any questions.Nov 9, 2012 at 8:05 am #1927276
Thanks, Bruce. I'm really fascinated by petroglyphs. When I took my Outward Bound course in Canyonlands, we came across a lot petroglyphs. Amazing when you think how long they've lasted.Nov 9, 2012 at 8:05 am #1927277
Water is not as plentiful as in the Sierra.
I love desert hiking, and there are big deserts in many states. Always my first choice to hike.Nov 9, 2012 at 8:14 am #1927279
Nick – these are beautiful trip reports! Thanks for sharing the links. Your photos are great. The area reminded me a lot of Canyonlands. I really enjoyed your reports. I can't wait to check out Nevada.Nov 9, 2012 at 8:36 am #1927287
Ben CBPL Member
@alexdrewreedLocale: Kentucky
I never understood why people would want to back pack in the dessert: no trees, no moss, no ferns, no green, no streams or water. I live in the east and I guess that's just what I know.
Last fall, though, I made trips into southern Utah and Death Valley. Now I get it. Its hard for me to say why but there is something special about the desert. I think the openness makes you feel even more alone than in a closed in forest.
For me, though, its a special trip. We have none close at all. I do enjoy the reports you all post, though.Nov 9, 2012 at 8:55 am #1927298
Some thoughts on deserts. They are "clean." Very sparse and no rotting vegetation. Pick up a handful of sand and it looks and feels clean. Not a lot of extraneous material in it.
The desert is efficient. Only the strong survive. This goes for everything.
The openness provides great vistas. The world is open to you — you can see it everywhere. You don't have to climb a peak to get out of your immediate environment to see a vast expanse. To me the openness invites optimism. It demands exploration.
The desert requires you to become a better hiker. You must be smarter, more skillful, and more experienced. It requires the best in us to survive.
And most importantly, the desert is solitude.
I am close to the most famous mountain range in the US; the high Sierra. And I hike there a lot. It is special. So is the desert. I partake of both. The Sierra is like a mistress; the desert a life-long companion.Nov 9, 2012 at 10:23 am #1927317
Ben CBPL Member
@alexdrewreedLocale: Kentucky
Well said, Nick. It was the openness and feeling of being alone(even though I was with my family) that I really loved. I really liked it much more than I thought I would and will definitely go back.
But I have no bad feelings toward the dirtiness of wet places. I love the smell of rotting leaves, mosses, and all green things. I think it will always be my familiar and the dessert will be more exotic.
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Jeffrey Lewis has stirred up the question of whether apparatus photographed in Burma/Myanmar (the original article is now gone; this link is from the Wayback Machine, 2/2/15) is useful for uranium and rare earth chemistry. I've provided a quick overview based on my experience. But there's another source of information on uses of equipment for both uranium and rare earth chemistry.
The Silmet plant in Sillamäe, Estonia, produced uranium compounds through the 1980s and rare earth compounds since the 1970s. The full story is still not available, although much of it is covered in the first two parts of Historical Survey of Nuclear Non-Proliferation in Estonia, 1946-1995, by Ello Maremäe and Hain Tankler. I have also consulted several chapters in Turning a Problem into a Resource: Remediation and Waste Management at the Sillamäe Site, Estonia. I am also drawing early Silmet brochures in my possession, my experience as a research chemist, and my observations at Sillamäe.
The Maremäe and Tankler report (which I will abbreviate M&T) is the more recent, published in 2003, and is a voluntary supplement to Estonia's State Declaration under its Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Along with other sources, Maremäe and Tankler used a roomful of reports left at the Silmet plant by the Soviets, many of them with classification markings. More documentation is believed to exist at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Moscow and at other archives, but the Russians have not been willing to make that documentation available.
The Silmet plant is now owned by Molycorp. I have used material from their website on the current operation of the plant. The name "Silmet" came into use in 1997, when the plant was privatized.
Silmet has processed both uranium and rare-earth compounds, so it is reasonable to look at Silmet to try to understand whether the apparatus photographed in Burma indicates a nuclear weapons program. I'll consider the uranium and rare-earth processing Silmet has done, along with its tantalum and niobium production, and then draw some conclusions about the equipment photographed in Burma.
Uranium Processing at Sillamäe
A plant was built at Sillamäe in 1946 to supply uranium to the Soviet atomic bomb project. Its source material changed over the years. Uranium processing ended as the Soviet Union destabilized in the late 1980s. Rumors have long circulated that uranium enrichment took place at the plant, but neither the documents nor an examination of the facilities show any evidence of that. Three very large reinforced-concrete buildings, possibly suitable for centrifuge facilities, were constructed in the 1980s but never completed; they were rubblized for use in the remediation of the tailings pond.
As World War II ended, the Soviet Union was ramping up its nuclear program. It faced a severe shortage of uranium deposits. Northeastern Estonia had long mined its very rich oil shale for fuel, and part of that formation was a black shale containing uranium. The Sillamäe plant was initially designed to recover uranium from that black shale. A flow chart for the process is given on page 21 of M&T. The product was yellowcake (U3O8). We can deduce the types of equipment from that chart and the text:
Ore grinders
Gerreshof kilns
Vessels and piping for handling ore and processing liquids
Drum filters
Plate-and-frame filters
Vessels and piping for precipitation
Electric drying furnaces
A chemical laboratory was also necessary for analyzing raw materials, process solutions, and product.
Black shale is the most difficult uranium ore from which to produce uranium, and in 1952 black shale was discontinued as the ore, although research on it continued into the sixties (p. 24, M&T). Starting in 1952, richer ores were brought in from other parts of the Soviet Union and its satellites (p. 19, M&T). The use of these ores would have eliminated the Gerreshof kilns and some of the ore-treating equipment.
Increasing purity of the product yellowcake was required through the 1950s and 1960s. First, multiple precipitation steps (flow chart on p. 25) were introduced and later ion exchange. The timing coincides with the introduction of centrifuges into the Soviet enrichment complex; impurities in UF6 are more harmful to centrifuges than to the gaseous diffusion process that the centrifuges replaced. The best place in the process to remove those impurities is during production of U3O8.
In the 1970s, the raw material was changed from ore to concentrate, which would have lessened the number of or eliminated the ore grinders. Improvements continued on the ion-exchange process, but this would not have changed the equipment significantly. In 1979, automated monitoring and control was introduced; again, probably little change in equipment (p. 28, M&T).
In 1983, additional automatic control was put into operation. In 1985, pulsating ion-exchange columns replaced the older columns.
An additional production line started up in 1982 to reclaim rejected fuel-element UO2. The starting material was technical grade U3O8 enriched to 2.0 – 3.6% in U-235. It came from the Machine Building Plant in Elektrostal, Ulbinsky Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk, and the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrate Plant, where rejected UO2 pellets were oxidized to U3O8. The process flow diagram is on page 32 of M&T. Most of the steps are similar to the other unit processes and would require similar equipment. Solvent extraction and a furnace with hydrogen flow would have been added.
"Granulated microfuel" with uranium enrichment of 21 – 90% was also produced at Sillamäe (pp. 31-33, M&T), requiring ball and rolling mills and sintering furnaces. "Spherical fuel elements" were also produced from the microfuel, probably requiring additional mixing equipment and furnaces. These operations were at a pilot scale and were discontinued in 1987.
The Ministry of Medium Machine Building sent instructions to Sillamäe in June 1989 to end all uranium processing and send uranium materials to other plants in the Soviet nuclear complex.
Rare Earth Processing at Sillamäe
Not as much information is available on rare earth processing. Production of rare earth compounds began in the early 1970s, and they quickly became the major project. Production of niobium metal began in the mid-seventies (p. 10, M&T). An undated Silmet brochure, probably from 1992, lists as products
Lanthanum oxide concentrate
Lanthananum and cerium oxide concentrate
Cerium dioxide concentrate
Didymium (a mixture of praseodymium and neodymium) carbonate concentrate
Concentrate of oxides of middle group of rare-earth elements
Oxides of rare-earth elements of the cerium group
Optical polishing powder
Metallic niobium ingots and powders
Nickel-based rare-earth master alloys (for steel and other alloys)
Titanium oxide
Titanium and calcium filler
Nitrogen-containing fertilizers
Polymeric filtering materials
A 1999 brochure lists
Tantalum hydroxide
Niobium pentoxide
Metallic niobium ingots and powders
Cerium subgroup rare earth oxides (carbonates)
Cerium subgroup rare earth fluorides
Fluorine-containing polishing powders (optical and technical)
Cerium subgroup rare earth nitrate solution
Cerium oxide (carbonate) concentrate
Lanthanum oxide (carbonate) concentrate
Neodymium oxide (carbonate) concentrate
Neodymium fluoride concentrate
Middle group rare earths oxide (carbonate) concentrate
Samarium-gadolinium oxide (carbonate) concentrate
Nickel-based rare earth master alloys (for steelmaking)
In Turning a Problem into a Resource: Remediation and Waste Management at the Sillamäe Site, Estonia, V. Petrenko and A. Siinmaa (pp 47-56) describe the process as "primarily hydrometallurgical, including dissolution, precipitation, filtration, and liquid extraction processing. The final stages of production include drying and calcination in electric drum furnaces." They also provide a flow sheet.
The process for production of niobium and tantalum from columbite concentrate includes grinding, dissolution, filtration and washing of solids, extraction of tantalum and niobium by TBP in mixer-settlers, washing, and re-extraction of the two metals as hydroxide. The niobium hydroxide is calcined to oxide.
In the same book, V. D. Kosynkin and V. J. Nikonov of the All-Russia Research Institute of Chemical Technology proposed recovery of scandium from the loparite ore raw material as well (pp. 57-61), but this suggestion has not been followed up on.
Molycorp Silmet now lists a similar suite of products to the 1997 list. The most significant additions for our purposes are niobium metal and niobium and tantalum hydrides.
The equipment required for these processes overlaps with that required for the uranium processing at the plant. Production of the metals requires a reduction step, but probably not the bomb-type vessel used for uranium, because niobium and tantalum metals are stable in air, whereas uranium metal is not. Uranium metal was never produced at Sillamäe. A specialized furnace may be necessary for production of the hydrides.
Looking at Burma Again
Molycorp Silmet has provided a very nice video that shows a lot of equipment. It's about four and a half minutes long, and apparently non-embeddable. Watch the whole thing to get a sense of the plant before you read further. There's a little about the town, too, and I'll have more about that if you read all the way to the end! I'll say more about that big grassy area too.
Here's one example from the Burmese photos (link from Wayback Machine).
Or from the textbook Jeffrey quotes.
There's no comparison. Silmet is a full-scale metals plant. It is possible that Silmet is larger than a weapons uranium plant might be; check out the quantities of product at 2:47 in the video. But the equipment in the Burmese photos and the Indian text is much smaller. Some of it is similar to equipment that can be bought commercially. The famous (to chemists anyway) Parr bombs look a lot like the vaunted Burmese bomb reactor.
Could the Burmese equipment be used for a developmental program on producing uranium metal? Yes. Could it be used for many other things? Yes.
The Burmese equipment, and the equipment in the Indian text, is for research, not production. At most, some of it might be considered pilot plant scale.
When Sillamäe produced uranium, it was yellowcake, oxide rather than metal. But it has produced niobium and tantalum metals (video, 0:55 and 2:03). Because of chemical differences between uranium and the other two, most notably that uranium catches fire (reoxidizes) when it's heated in air, the process and equipment for reduction of uranium to metal are different from those for Silmet's metals.
However, most of the equipment for refining ores or concentrates is dual-use; it can be used for uranium or commercial metals. It's not clear how much equipment at Sillamäe actually was repurposed from uranium to rare earths; rather, the capabilities of the workers for similar unit processes allowed the changeovers, probably with both addition and repurposing of equipment.
Let us look specifically at some of the claims about Burma. The possible cold trap or UF6 collector looks poorly made, certainly not a product of the numerically controlled machine tools reported to have been acquired, or not utilizing their capabilities fully. The design seems strange too; the center well, presumably the liquid nitrogen reservoir, is too big, and it's not clear why it is square. For a collector, you want lots of cold surface area, and the spiral objects might provide that. But the large square well requires a significant amount of liquid nitrogen where it isn't really helping to cool surfaces.
Conclusion: This apparatus could be a UF6 collector, but its capacity is small and it appears poorly designed and made. It is not recognizably unique for uranium work.
Although there has been some highlighting of the use of Inconel, Kelley and Fowle recognize that it is not diagnostic for nuclear work. Inconel is used where corrosion resistance is needed. Rare earth processing at Silmet uses chloride and fluoride in its processes, both of which are likely to require the use of Inconel. Inconel has many uses.
Conclusion: The use of Inconel is in no way diagnostic of uranium chemistry.
What is not shown in the Kelley and Fowle report is anything resembling ion exchange columns or solvent extraction. At Sillamäe, both have been used for uranium purification. Solvent extraction is essential to rare earth purification because many of the rare earth elements are similar enough to each other in their chemistry that ion exchange separates them poorly. Both of these are exacting technologies; not as exacting as centrifuge operation, but more so than the simple fluid handling systems and tube furnaces shown in the Burmese photographs. Solvent extractors are shown at 2:25 in the Silmet video.
Both separation technologies require significant knowledge of chemistry. An enormous number of ion-exchange resins and other media are available. The proper ones must be chosen according to the anions present and the pH of the solution, along with what cations are to be separated. The solvent exchange processes used at Sillamäe have used TBP – tributyl phosphate – as the complexing medium. It works well for both uranium and rare earth solutions. But temperature, flow rate, and solution properties (of two solutions!) must all be controlled. Hence the chemistry laboratory, which has other functions as well.
Conclusion: Without ion exchange or solvent extraction, there is no way to prepare a pure product. Nothing relating to these technologies appears in the Burmese photographs. Although these technologies could be used for rare earths as well as uranium, either program is incomplete without them. There is also no indication of a chemical laboratory in the Burmese photographs. Little development can be done without one.
Overall conclusion: The Burmese photographs show nothing that unambiguously relates to uranium processing. The equipment shown is of a laboratory or pilot plant scale, not a production scale. An important capability that is not shown in the photographs is purification of whatever is being processed. Ion exchange and solvent extraction are commonly used for this purpose.
Appendix I: The Molycorp Silmet Video
This is a nicely done video, with some cool photos of equipment. An annotation identifying equipment and parts of the plant and town follows. I think the narrator is misprouncing "Sillamäe". I have a hard time with it, too. Some parts of Estonian are hard for English speakers.
Beginning: Mere Puiestee (Ocean Boulevard), one of my favorite places to walk.
0:23 The town from the remediated tailings pond
0:32 The plant from the remediated tailings pond; tanks to the right are part of the port.
0:39 Main processing building
0:55 Metals production (probably tantalum or niobium)
1:14 Another view of the plant
1:41 The port is in the background. The large grassy area is the remediated tailings pond.
2:03 Metals production
2:13 A furnace
2:25 Bank of solvent extractors
2:47 Clearly the production is larger than would be needed for a uranium plant for nuclear weapons.
3:13 The port from the remediated tailings pond
4:10 Sillamäe town hall and park
Appendix II: Myanmar or Burma?
In my earlier post, I referred to the country as Myanmar rather than Burma. I was under the impression that that was the current US State Department usage. This says different, so I'm using Burma.
Appendix III: What Makes You Think You Know So Much About Sillamäe, Cheryl?
I have been visiting Sillamäe regularly for more than a decade. On my last visit, in the summer of 2011, I posted some photos and explanations. If there are differences between those posts and this one, this one is more likely to be correct.
Sillamäe Today
Molycorp Comes to Sillamäe
More On Molycorp and Sillamäe
You may also consult Turning a Problem into a Resource: Remediation and Waste Management at the Sillamäe Site, Estonia, which is the report of a NATO Advanced Research Conference I co-chaired with Tõnis Kaasik in 1998. It contains additional background on Sillamäe's problems, many of which are being fixed, in pretty much the ways we recommended in that conference. Molycorp Silmet's website lists some of them as "Acheivements," [sic] but they were done by others. The biggest achievement was the remediation of the tailings pond, a kilometer long and half a kilometer wide, which included stabilization of the dam, isolation from groundwater, and an engineered cover to prevent rainwater from leaching through the tailings. That was done by Ökosil Ltd. The remediation allowed a port to be developed, which continues to expand.
On this, I'm not objective. I'm proud of my Estonian friends and what they've done, and my small contributions. I think that my lack of objectivity on this subject didn't affect my analysis of equipment, though.by


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President Obama's election was no doubt historic, but in a sense, the presence of Michelle Obama in the White House is even more remarkable. She, daughters Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian (Shields) Robinson, are the first descendants of slaves to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as members of the first family.
Last year, I spent nine months researching Mrs. Obama's ancestry, and some of my findings were shared in the New York Times, including the tale of her great-great-grandfather, Dolphus Shields and his mother, Melvina McGruder.
"First Grandma" Marian's family lived in Chicago, so I don't know whether she ever met her Alabama-based great-grandfather Dolphus, but she would have been 12 years old when he passed away. I mention this because Dolphus was born into slavery, yet lived long enough to overlap the life of a White House-bound descendant.
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This is so unique and chic! Love it!! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Ha Ha! Yes, it does look like fireworks doesn't it..I saw it as Japanese umbrellas, as it's an Asian fabric!Originally Posted by GirlieWhirlie
That is pretty, where was the pattern from, or was it your own?
You use the interfacing as a foundation. Draw 1" lines across it.Originally Posted by Joy Higdon
Cut 1.5" strips in three colours, just bigger than the width of the interfacing. I used Black for the background, and two contrasting fabrics (well three if you count the green, which I stuck in 'cos I didn't have enough of the orange :wink:).
Stitch your two contrast fabrics together down the length, iron them so rights sides out. Do as many as need to cover interfacing.
Starting from the left working towards the right - Lay one strip of your background fabric right side up, up to the first line making sure you have an overhang of 1/2" inch on the left and enough covering the top and bottom. Then lay one of the pleats whichever side up you prefer, and lay another background on top of the pleat. All raw edges should line up with the pencil line. Stitch 1/4" seam.
Open up the background fabric, and iron up and over to the next pencil line. Add the next pleat and another background, stitch 1/4" seam, iron up and over to the next pencil line....Rinse and repeat til you have done as many as you need!
Next, stitch right through the centre of the panel to secure your pleats in one direction, sewing with the flow of the pleat, I used a fancy stitch but plain stitching will do!
Next, fold each pleat edge over in the opposite direction to exposing the underside of the pleat and pin each in place.
Stitch just through the points to hold. (This row of stitching will be hidden in your seam when you complete your project.
Repeat on the other side. Trim up if need be!
Do whatever you intend to do with it!
It is so easy yet so effective I think I will be making some more of these soon!
Happy stitching.
Sorry, I can't tell you what magazine it is just yet as DH is asleep in the bedroom, I will tell you later. I think it is a Popular Patchwork, but can't be sure ;)
That is so unusual and really cool!