Word: fueled
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...reluctant to resume large-scale aid until the government of President Ronald Venetiaan puts its tottering economic house in order. Production is in decline, the unemployment rate tops 20% and per capita annual income is only $500. Rather than risk public unrest, the government provides generous subsidies for fuel, food, water and telephone service. But the budget now exceeds revenues by 150%, and the government has been looking for easy sources of foreign exchange...
...fraudulent -- German police have in the past four months uncovered four cases of smuggled nuclear material that could actually be used to make an atom bomb. The biggest haul came on Aug. 10, when Lufthansa Flight 3369 from Moscow landed in Munich with 350 grams of atomic fuel aboard. As it happened, so was Viktor Sidorenko, Russia's Deputy Minister for Atomic Energy, whose agency supervises Moscow's stocks of fissionable materials. The lead-lined suitcase was carrying MOX -- mixed-oxide fuel for reactors but perfectly usable in a bomb since it contained plutonium enriched to 87%. A Colombian...
...grade plutonium was on the open market came in southern Germany last May, when 6 grams were found in a garage owned by a German businessman who had been arrested for counterfeiting. That was followed in June by recovery of less than a gram of highly enriched uranium -- probably fuel from a nuclear-powered submarine -- in Landshut. Even if all + this smuggled booty were put together, there would not be enough for the smallest and crudest atom bomb, which in the hands of inexperienced makers would take about 8 kg of plutonium...
Space shuttle Endeavour's launch was aborted just 1.9 sec. before liftoff. The problem was an overheated fuel pump in one of the ship's giant rocket engines. It was the fifth mission scrubbed on the launching pad in 64 flights...
Moscow nabbed two thieves who were about to make off with 21 pounds of plutonium from a nuclear complex in central Russia. The non-weapons grade element can be used to make fuel for nuclear power plants. The arrests were the latest in a series of cases involving theft of nuke material from Russian plants and research facilities...