Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., November 04,
2009
(1)
Holodomor/Genocide:
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/holodomor.html
"Okradena
Zemlya": 1932-33 famine was genocide Ukrainian
News, 29Oct2009;
M. Levytsky
http://www.holodomorsurvivors.ca/
National
Holodomor Awareness Week, 23-29 October 2009; Ukrainian
Canadian Congress
Ukrainian
Professional Teachers Newsletter September 2009
David
Roth: “it is outrageous to think that
the death of 7 million Ukrainians is somehow less important than the
death of 6
million Jews.”
Holocaust
and Holodomor
windowintopalestine (19May2009), Apr2007;
Nicholas Lysson
(2)
Ukrainophobia:
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrainophobia/ukrainophobia.html
Intrigue
over Stepan Bandera; Assassination Stepan Bandera,
17Oct2009; Lubomyr
Markevych
Sviato
Pokrovy in Kyiv on 12Oct2009 Sviato Pokrovy,
14Oct2009; Lubomyr
Markevych
Kyiv
forum to discuss attempts to revise WWII history
Kyiv Post,
12Oct2009; Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine fears for its future Observer, 11Oct2009; Luke Harding
Russia
plan to blackmail Ukraine over nuclear fuel supplies
Zerkalo Nedeli,
10Oct2009; Olha Kosharna [courtesy Lubomyr Markevych]
It's
time for a Jewish boycott of the Ukraine Haaretz,
08Oct2009; Anschel
Pfeffer
Russia
denounces UPA recognition in Talinn Kyiv Post,
08Oct2009;
Interfax-Ukraine
(3)
John Demjanjuk: http://www.willzuzak.ca/fc/2001/2001.html
Witness
in War Crimes Trial Could Face Indictment Spiegel,
02Nov2009; G.
Bönisch and J. Friedmann
Demjanjuk
witness to be charged with war crimes Deutsche
Welle, 01Nov2009; Rick
Demarest
Relatives
to be represented at Demjanjuk war crimes trial EarthTimes.org,
31Oct2009; dpa
Case
of John Demjanjuk: A Human and Ukrainian issue Letter,
29Oct2009;
Askold Lozynsky [Ukrainian]
Traficant
speaks to AFP: Demjanjuk excerpt American Free
Press, 23Oct2009; Peter
Papaheraklis
The
Demjanjuk Case: Moral Hollywood ePoshta, 23Oct2009;
Halya Coynash
[English/Ukrainian]
Germany's
highest court rejects John Demjanjuk's appeals Winnipeg Free
Press,
21Oct2009; Associated Press
Esquire
Magazine Glorifies Accused SS Guard John Demjanjuk Chance
and
Necessity, 21Oct2009; D. Friedland
John
Demjanjuk: The last Nazi Esquire, 15Oct2009; Scott
Raab
The
Nazi 'Extermination Camp' of Sobibor therebel.org,
08Oct2009; Paul
Grubach
Nuclear
fission reactor technology for Ukraine To Yulia
Tymoshenko, Oct. 29,
2009
Respectfully
submitted
Will Zuzak, 2009.11.04
******************************************************
To
Yulia Tymoshenko | 29Oct2009 | Will
Zuzak
Embassy
of Ukraine in Canada
310 Somerset St., West, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 0J9
Via
Email: [email protected];
[email protected]
Date:
29 October 2009
Dear
Yulia Tymoshenko:
As
the Prime Minister of Ukraine, as well
as a candidate in the upcoming Presidential elections, you
carry a heavy
responsibility to promote and ensure energy self-sufficiency for
Ukraine -- in
the field of nuclear energy, as well as oil and natural gas.
An article in the 10 October 2009 issue of Zerkalo Nedeli by Oksana
Kosharna
outlines Russian intrigues to prevent Ukraine developing its own
nuclear
fission reactor technology. She describes in some detail the
negotiations and
proposed agreements to provide nuclear fuel for Ukraine's nuclear
reactors, in
which, presumably, you and President Yushchenko were involved,
as well as
Russian attempts to freeze out the involvement of Westinghouse and thus
blackmail Ukraine into using only Russian-supplied fuel.
I have archived this article
on my website, together with an English-language translation and links
to my
previous articles and comments. Allow me to discuss the issue under
three
headings -- Iran, KIPT and Canada.
IRAN
I am sure that you are fully aware that under the specious claim that
Iran's
program to develop technology to produce fuel for its nuclear
reactor(s) is a
prelude to producing nuclear weapons, the United States and Israel are
threatening to attack Iran. I have previously stated:
"I
suspect that the real motive behind the U.S./European/Russian attitude
towards
Iran’s nuclear program is not to preclude the development of nuclear
weapons;
it is to preclude the development of nuclear technology for the
production of
electricity outside of U.S./European/Russian control. The “West”/Russia
are
establishing a stranglehold on the world’s oil and natural gas
supplies; they
appear to want to establish a similar stranglehold on nuclear fission
reactor
technology."
In
my opinion, second-world
countries (such as Iran and Ukraine) and even third-world
countries should
be encouraged (rather than discouraged) to develop nuclear programs to
produce
electricity for their citizens. This would contribute to
third-world
development (and eventually world peace) far more than all the billions
in
"foreign aid", presently being dumped into black holes and magically
reappearing in the bank accounts of the "international money
mafia". Ukraine must not succumb to the mechanations of the
American
and Israeli war-mongers.
KIPT
I
am not intimately familiar with
the expertise in nuclear energy available within Ukraine. Nevertheless,
it is
recognized that the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
(KIPT) pioneered the establishment of nuclear physics research
within the
Soviet Union in 1932. Many famous scientists were associated with this
Institute and, despite the Holodomor and the Great Terror of the 1930s,
it
remains a very competent institution to this day. (See "Laboratory No.
1:
Nuclear Physics in Ukraine" by Yurij Ranyuk, AKTA 2005, ISBN
966-7021-93-9 -- in Ukrainian.)
Perhaps
KIPT and similar
institutions within Ukraine could be asked to develop a strategy for
the
optimum development of nuclear reactor technology and a complete
nuclear fuel
cycle for existing and future reactors. Although existing reactors
within
Ukraine are of the VVER-1000 and VVER-440 types, there is no reason to
preclude
the establishment of other types of reactors. This may entail
collaboration
with other countries, including the Russian Federation and the United
States.
What is important is that the design, construction, operation and
fueling be
carried out on Ukrainian soil controlled by citizens of Ukraine.
CANADA
The Kosharna article refers to negotiations with companies from South
Korea and
Canada; with Westinghouse and the French AREVA. Since I worked for
Atomic
Energy of Canada in the fields of fission and controlled nuclear
fusion, I am
rather familiar with Canada's CANDU reactor. The CANDU uses heavy water
as a
moderator and is, thus, extremely neutron efficient. It uses natural
uranium as
a fuel, such that no uranium enrichment is required. Furthermore, it
can use a
thorium-based fuel and an organic fluid as a coolant.
Should uranium enrichment prove to be an insurmountable obstacle, I
could
certainly recommend Ukraine considering the CANDU reactor as an
alternate to
the VVER design.
In conclusion, I would like to point out that the establishment of a
Ukrainian
nuclear industry is not just about producing electricity or energy
self-sufficiency. It is about Ukraine developing a sophisticated
technological
infrastructure within which Ukrainian citizens can work and thrive. It
is the
difference between self-reliance and serfdom. I sincerely hope that the
Ukrainian government can resolve this challenge for the benefit of
Ukraine and
its citizens.
Respectfully submitted
William Zuzak, Ph.D., P.Eng. (retired)
2009.10.29
The archival addresses of this file and the links referred to above are:
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/wllzzk/zuzak20091029Tymoshenko.html
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/wllzzk/zuzak20070127Tymoshenko.html
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrainophobia/kosharna20091010ZerkaloNedeli.html