LONDON (Reuters) - Strong expansion of nuclear
power as a carbon-free energy source in Asia is expected to press ahead
despite the Fukushima accident in Japan that soured sentiment in some
countries, a benchmark report said on Thursday.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Weaponized Laser Equipped Drone Testing
On July 26, the U.S. Air National Guard will get the green light to
begin firing lasers from unmanned attack drones in a vast swath of skies
over North Dakota, despite the concerns of local commercial pilots.
At the Devils Lake home of the North Dakota Army National Guard, pilots train on MQ-1 Predator drones — the most prevalent unmanned attack vehicle in the military arsenal. In late June the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published an updated set of rules and regulations covering Devils Lake, creating several large restricted airspaces over the Camp Gilbert C. Grafton military base.
The reason: the Air Force plans to begin tests of potentially dangerous lasers shot remotely from the drone.
“Sorties will be limited to the minimum necessary for training, be confined to restricted airspace, and be executed against ground targets for laser designation, completely within an existing Army small arms weapons training range,” Billie Jo Lorius, a public information officer with the North Dakota National Guard, told FoxNews.com.
The lasers aren’t intended as weapons, as were those built on the jumbo jet operated by the Air Force in the Airborne Laser Test Bed program, which was officially mothballed in February. Rather they are targeting lasers fixed on a spot on the ground, which can be used to steer other explosives to a target.
The Air Force is not testing them yet but expects to begin soon, Lorius said.
‘Sorties will be … executed against ground targets for laser designation within an existing Army small arms weapons training range.’
- Billie Jo Lorius, a public information officer with the North Dakota National Guard, told FoxNews.com.
“Air Force RPA [remotely piloted aircraft] laser use in North Dakota, expected to begin in mid-FY13, will be conducted only for Continuation Training (CT) sorties,” she said. Fiscal year 2013 begins in October.
Yet because such lasers pose a risk to the eyes, especially for other pilots operating in the area, the limitations were necessary and the North Dakota location was required — despite the complaints of area pilots.
Read More Via:fox
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At the Devils Lake home of the North Dakota Army National Guard, pilots train on MQ-1 Predator drones — the most prevalent unmanned attack vehicle in the military arsenal. In late June the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published an updated set of rules and regulations covering Devils Lake, creating several large restricted airspaces over the Camp Gilbert C. Grafton military base.
The reason: the Air Force plans to begin tests of potentially dangerous lasers shot remotely from the drone.
“Sorties will be limited to the minimum necessary for training, be confined to restricted airspace, and be executed against ground targets for laser designation, completely within an existing Army small arms weapons training range,” Billie Jo Lorius, a public information officer with the North Dakota National Guard, told FoxNews.com.
The lasers aren’t intended as weapons, as were those built on the jumbo jet operated by the Air Force in the Airborne Laser Test Bed program, which was officially mothballed in February. Rather they are targeting lasers fixed on a spot on the ground, which can be used to steer other explosives to a target.
The Air Force is not testing them yet but expects to begin soon, Lorius said.
‘Sorties will be … executed against ground targets for laser designation within an existing Army small arms weapons training range.’
- Billie Jo Lorius, a public information officer with the North Dakota National Guard, told FoxNews.com.
“Air Force RPA [remotely piloted aircraft] laser use in North Dakota, expected to begin in mid-FY13, will be conducted only for Continuation Training (CT) sorties,” she said. Fiscal year 2013 begins in October.
Yet because such lasers pose a risk to the eyes, especially for other pilots operating in the area, the limitations were necessary and the North Dakota location was required — despite the complaints of area pilots.
Read More Via:fox
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Police Deploy Weaponized Drone
Boeing Fires Airborne Laser
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Drone Proliferation
Source dark government.com
Nevada Desert Experience - August Desert Witness PEACE Events Public Event · By Mary Lou AndersonSunday, August 5, 2012 2:00pm in PDT Multiple Locations - SEE INFO! August 5 Book Signing: Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control with Author and Activist Medea Benjamin, co-Founder of the organization CODEPINK: Women for Peace Sunday August 5 2:00 to 4:00 pm EMERGENCY ARTS 520 Fremont Street Las Vegas, NV 89101 Come hear Medea Benjamin read from her new book, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. This is an excellent conversation starter and well-rounded introduction to the subject. Benjamin is great at connecting the dots, raising ethical questions and speaking passionately. The Beat Cafe will be open, and the event will be in the Common Gallery on the first floor. August 6 to 9 Protests Against the Largest Drone Convention in the World AUVSI Meets at Mandalay Bay Convention Center 8000 People from 40 Countries If you want to help be a fly in the ointment of this new killing machine's smooth running, check in with NDE as plans develop further with other allies. August 9 Anti-Test at the Mercury Entrance to the Nevada Test Site (Nevada National Security Site) 6:30 to 8:00 am (Before it gets really hot!)... And then in Las Vegas Educational Picket at the National Atomic Testing Museum 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
- 2:00pm in PDT
Multiple Locations - SEE INFO!
August 5 Book Signing:
Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control
with Author and Activist Medea Benjamin, co-Founder of the organization CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Sunday August 5 2:00 to 4:00 pm
EMERGENCY ARTS
520 Fremont Street
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Come hear Medea Benjamin read from her new book, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control. This is an excellent conversation starter and well-rounded introduction to the subject. Benjamin is great at connecting the dots, raising ethical questions and speaking passionately. The Beat Cafe will be open, and the event will be in the Common Gallery on the first floor.
August 6 to 9
Protests Against the Largest Drone Convention in the World
AUVSI Meets at Mandalay Bay Convention Center
8000 People from 40 Countries
If you want to help be a fly in the ointment of this new killing machine's smooth running, check in with NDE as plans develop further with other allies.
August 9
Anti-Test at the Mercury Entrance to the Nevada Test Site (Nevada National Security Site)
6:30 to 8:00 am (Before it gets really hot!)...
And then in Las Vegas
Educational Picket at the National Atomic Testing Museum
10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Greet visitors to this museum that is devoted to remembering the Cold War in all its nuclear glory...and not much of the horror. We will informally supplement the discourse and remind people of the ongoing fallout from the use of the atomic bomb in 1945 as we memorialize the victims in Nagasaki (and Hiroshima).
For other actions around the southwest and as part of the move to "un-Occupy the Nuclear Weapons Complex, visit NukeFreeNow.org
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