NASA technical reports server

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Op woensdag 1 mei 2013 16:25 schreef mvdejong het volgende:

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Kort na de 2e Wereldoorlog :
Britten : "Laten we onze kennis delen over het ontwikkelen van straalvliegtuigen !"
Amerikanen : "Geweldig idee, doen we !"
Britten : "Hier onze gegevens, waaronder de cruciale ontdekkingen over de control-surfaces".
Amerikanen : "Bedankt !"
Amerikanen : "Bij nader inzien mogen wij dit soort defensie-gevoelige informatie ook niet met onze beste vrienden delen."

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Nichols wrote: Our best source, the Shinkolobwe mine, represented a freak occurrence in nature. It contained a tremendously rich lode of uranium pitchblende. Nothing like it has ever again been found. The ore already in the United States contained 65 percent U3O8, while the pitchblende aboveground in the Congo amounted to a thousand tons of 65 percent ore, and the waste piles of ore contained two thousand tons of 20 percent U3O8. To illustrate the uniqueness of Sengier’s stockpile, after the war the MED and the AEC considered ore containing three-tenths of 1 percent as a good find. Without Sengier’s foresight in stockpiling ore in the United States and aboveground in Africa, we simply would not have had the amounts of uranium needed to justify building the large separation plants and the plutonium reactors

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April 9, 2013
NASA has taken down the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), a publically-available resource for technical data written by the space organisation, following the FBI's arrest of a Chinese national accused of lying to investigators.

Representative Frank Wolf, the chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee controlling both NASA and the FBI's budget, requested that NASA remove technical information from public view pending a review for sensitive information.

In an 18 March press conference, Representative Frank Wolf cited the 16 March arrest of Bo Jiang, a Chinese research scientist employed at NASA's Langley research center, as reason enough for a broad review of public data. Bo was boarding a flight to China, and was arrested for lying to federal agents about his possession of a laptop, external hard drive and memory stick.