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Friday, July 20, 2018
 
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Westinghouse Electric Company announced yesterday that unit 3 of the South Ukraine nuclear power plant has been loaded with a full core of its VVER-1000 fuel. The unit, near Yuzhnoukrainsk in the Mykolaiv province of Ukraine, thus becomes the first VVER-1000 reactor anywhere to operate with fuel assemblies not supplied by Russia.
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The company supplies fuel to six of Ukraine's 15 nuclear power reactors, which from 2021 will increase to seven. The 15 reactors - at Zaporozhe, Rovno, South Ukraine and Khmelnitsky - are all operated by state-run Energoatom. They include 13 VVER-1000s and two VVER-440s with a total capacity of 13,835 MWe. [...] 163 of Westinghouse's TVS-WR fuel assemblies had been loaded into South Ukraine 3
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Ukraine's policy of nuclear fuel diversification originated in 2000 [...] was implemented in two stages, he said. The first was in 2005, when six pilot Westinghouse fuel assemblies were loaded into South Ukraine 3. The second was in 2010, when 42 Westinghouse fuel assemblies were loaded into the core of the unit.
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http://world-nuclear-news.org/UF-South-Ukraine-3-fully-loaded-with-Westinghouse-fuel-20071801.html

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Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution | Pentagon Wars (1998)
Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution | Pentagon Wars (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA

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- posted by Oleg Zabluda @ 5:48 PM | permalink | | | technorati | bloglines | feedster
 
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Army weapons officials recently awarded contracts to five firms to develop prototypes of the Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle (NGSAR). It will have to be five pounds lighter than the full-size M249 it replaces and fire ammo that's lighter and more potent than the service's current 5.56mm round.
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One of the challenges facing manufacturers is the requirement for ammo that's more potent than the M855A1 5.56mm Enhanced Performance round and 20 percent lighter than traditional brass-cased ammunition. [...] M855A1 will not defeat enemy body armor plates similar to the U.S. military-issued Enhanced Small Arms Protective Insert, or ESAPI. The solution will likely be a cartridge that uses lighter material than brass for the casing.

Textron has been working for more than a decade on next-generation light machine guns that fire polymer case-telescoped ammunition in its Lightweight Small Arms Technology program.

Other companies have found that standard cartridge designs made completely from polymer are not strong enough and are prone to damage during the extraction process. One solution has been to use brass at the base and polymer for the majority of the case.
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https://www.military.com/kitup/2018/07/18/army-3-star-potent-new-auto-rifle-just-close-combat-troops.html
https://www.military.com/kitup/2018/07/18/army-3-star-potent-new-auto-rifle-just-close-combat-troops.html

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Saudis cut trade with Germany
Saudis cut trade with Germany
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65% of Detlef Daues's business in Hannover, Germany, were exports to Saudi Arabia.

Were.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is deeply offended by Chancellor Merkel's support of the terrorist-exporting state of Iran, Der Spiegel reported. The Saudis are not doing business with Germany.

That is not all.

"Riyadh withdrew its ambassador from Germany and he still hasn't returned," Der Spiegel reported.

Germany's Saudi exports topped $7 billion last year.

"Some 800 German companies are active in the country, and 200 have offices in Saudi Arabia with a total of 40,000 employees," Der Spiegel reported.

Old Europe's embrace of Iran has consequences. I believe the anti-Semitism inherent in socialism has much to do with this enabling of Iranist terrorism through Hamas and the like.

At any rate, the new leadership in Saudi Arabia, which supports Israel, will have none of this.

Which side are we on?

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grennell tweeted on May 8, "As @realDonaldTrump said, US sanctions will target critical sectors of Iran’s economy. German companies doing business in Iran should wind down operations immediately."
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http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/05/saudis-cut-trade-with-germany.html

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Дюна - дай дай (1989)
Дюна - дай дай (1989)
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Trump: да, кстати, дай стёртые емайлы Хиллари.
Путин: не дам. она мне все яйца пообрывает
Trump:

Дай-дай! Дай-дай-дай-дай-дай!
Дай-дай-дай-дай-дай-дай! Дай-дай-дай-дай-дай
Дай-дай! Дай-дай-дай-дай-дай!
Не даёшь, тогда продай! Дай-дай-дай-дай-дай!

Путин:

Шу-шу!
Шу-шу!
Не дам!

Шу-шу!
Шу-шу!
Не дам!

Шу-шу!
Шу-шу!
Шу-шу!
Шу-шу!
Шу-шу!
Шу-шу!
Не дам!

Trump: ладно, как мужик, понимаю. тут её тоже все боятся. даже свирепый Бидон.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gXB4JGcA4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1gXB4JGcA4

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Дюна | Бутылочка (1999)
Дюна | Бутылочка (1999)
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Крутись, крутись, бутылочка стеклянная моя,
Пускай сегодня дырочка укажет на тебя.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IenbBCt1KKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IenbBCt1KKM

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