More than 100lbs of uranium moved out

[malaise]

of the Ukraine over Christmas - breaking on Rachel.

[eleny]

1. The most terrific news!!!

[Fearless]

2. Where to? The US? EU?

[malaise]

5. To the US n/t

[Fearless]

9. Thanks.

[tabatha]

3. I think this is an old story.

But it may be relevant to the news that Serbia has also done the same thing.

[Tx4obama]

4. I think it was news awhile ago that it was 'secured', but it was 'moved' over the holidays. n/t

More info here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x581568

Edited to add:
I wonder when Rachel taped that clip that was on MSNBC tonight.
Maybe she meant that it was 'moved' over Thanksgiving?
I'll have to try to catch the rerun and listen to her again.

[eleny]

6. During the conversation it was said that it happened over this holiday season

They talked about how they had to be ready to deal with the bad weather that occurred. So this is a new securing and movement of materials.

But I do remember another shipment story from earlier this year that Rachel reported. Was it about these materials seized in the nation of Georgia?
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/21/georgia-nuclear-material-seized.html

[Motown_Johnny]

7. they said 19 countries have already been done with 16 to go

all within this President's first term (is the goal)


It is official, our messaging sucks ass.



Unless they are trying to get this all done just as the 2012 campaign heats up so they can unload it all at once, we are seriously wasting news cycles.



My thought was to try and have the "Doomsday Clock" set back a minute or two once this process is complete. That always makes news around the world and would be fantastic for a 2012 campaign.

[jwirr]

10. While she was talking to the man they mentioned that this was after

Serbia. And I think they said it was over this Christmas weekend.

[Robb]

8. NNSA is Tweeting about it:

http://twitter.com/#!/NNSANews

[Tx4obama]

11. UPDATE - it was completed TODAY. New AP article below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4677959

[Arctic Dave]

12. Awesome, we were running low on DU bombs.

Wouldn't that be ironic, remove nuclear material out of service to make depleted uranium munitions.

[Pavulon]

13. We have plenty enough to kill eveyone ten times over, some cornflakes

just dont need piss.