Intriguing, on going story on Uranium in Vietnam beginning from the War.
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Intriguing, on going story on Uranium in Vietnam beginning from the War.
1. Strange story.
In 1996 I met an old British/Australian man (80+ years old at that time) in Melbourne. He asked me if I knew what caused American involvement in Vietnam war.
My conventional answers were given, but he said they are all incorrect. He said the real reason was Uranium deposits in Vietnam! I replied that I had heard of that rumour since 1960 in Vietnam but there was little reason to trust it and I thought that it was only from an anti-American misinformation campaign.
He then said that he was working for BP after WW2 and was the man in charge of prospecting for Uranium in Vietnam. He said that because of Uranium, the French got American to join their side in the French Colonial war. He said that his mission after WW2 in Vietnam was called off when he received a telegram saying that the mission was terminated because of the discovery of a huge deposit of Uranium in Australia.
I politely conversed with him but thought that he was only a self-important man trying to make a fool out of me. That night, I still used the internet to make independent verification of the details of his story. I was taken aback as things fall into places to confirm every detail of his story:
1. British Petroleum had been in the business of prospecting for Uranium.
2. The year of his termination of the mission does fit in nicely with the official declaration of the discovery of huge Uranium deposits in Australia.
3. In 1990 to 1992, the Department of Natural Resources of Socialist Republic of Vietnam declared that Vietnam has a HUGE Uranium deposit. They are low grade, concentrating in many areas, including in Nong Son (where low grade coal had been mined by Republic of (South) Vietnam. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam had later commissioned a Canadian Uranium mining company to assess the ore deposits.
2. Intriguing events.
The story fits well with:
1. The declaration in 1990 (from 1990 to 1994, the exact date I can’t remember) by SRV that it has huge amount of Uranium ore.
2. Currently there is a non-transparent, military styled, uneconomical mining of (rumored to be) BLACK bauxite (bauxite is usually yellow brown or tan, China has been buying bauxite from Australia at dirt cheap price) by Chinese operator in Lâm Đồng area in VN (going through the purpose built Kê Gà sea port and its purpose built routes) and the Vietnamese government currently does not have any mention of its past declaration of huge Uranium deposits. (There may be a secret cooperation between USA and China to quietly take all Uranium deposits out of Vietnam without any approval by Vietnamese people, who are the ultimate owners of territorial minerals).
3. American have brought into Vietnam many Geiger counters prior to 1974. What are they for unless they are used for prospecting or for picking up equipment associated with Nuclear weapon?
4. Before the Vietnam war ended on 30th April 1975. American personals had already removed their Uranium bars at the Research Nuclear Reactor in Dalat built by USA (for its former ally Republic of Vietnam, as an example of unreserved commitment to the future of RVN). However, USA tried its best to persuade SRV to have permission for coming back to Dalat to look for any misplaced Uranium bars ! How could it happen and who had been responsible for such a sloppy accounting procedures of Uranium bars? Anyway, the SRV agreed to let USA come back to the reactor to search for their misplaced Uranium bars but nothing was found. As a result of that cooperation, there was relaxation on the embargo by the US against SRV (The real reason may be to check if SRV has fed any of its own Uranium into the Nuclear Reactor).
5. Later on, there was a rare cooperation in Vietnam between USA and Russia to convert the Dalat Nuclear Reactor into a new type using lower-enriched Uranium and to arrange for a shipment of some spent Uranium out of Vietnam. As a result of that cooperation, Vietnam was given a time limited committee position on a UN Nuclear Commission and the US embargo against SRV was dismantled.
6. USA has shown the World that it could fabricate a cause for war against any middle country such as Iraq and to attack. SRV had done well to comply with the requests from USA.
7. There is currently an unusual freezing of relationship between two comrade in arms Socialist Republic of Vietnam and North Korea. It was NK who sent its best MIG fighter ace pilots to help North VN during the Vietnam war, some of its fighters actually had Died In Action. Their remains had been placed in a Temple for North Korean Heroic Fighters in North Vietnam but later quietly repatriated to NK around the year 2000. In contrast with China, NK had asked for neither territory nor payments for joining NVN in the war. There was no reason for such a freeze in the relation between two communist comrade countries. Is this unsual freeze part of an international plan to separate a Nuclear Capable State North Korea from an Uranium rich State Socialist Republic of VN?
3. Conclusion.
This is an unusual story but it brings up many hypotheses which can explain otherwise incomprehensible events.
References.
[1]. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/09/vietnam-could-have-lot-of-uranium-and.html
[2]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_reserves
[3]. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-09/highly-enriched-uranium-cleared-from-vietnam/4809016
[4]. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/cnpp2003/CNPP_Webpage/PDF/2002/Documents/Documents/Viet%20Nam%202002.pdf
[4b]. [PDF] vietnam – IAEA Publications, https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/cnpp2003/CNPP_Webpage/PDF/2002/
[8]. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R43433.pdf
[9]http://tomfernandez28.com/2018/04/04/mueller-was-set-to-deliver-highly-enriched-uranium-to-the-russians-in-2009-under-hillary-clintons-orders/
[10]. https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-t-z/vietnam.aspx
[11]. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2010/09/vietnam-could-have-lot-of-uranium-and.html
[13]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_reserves
Table of Uranium reserve and Production to 2014 from this reference
Country Reserves as of 2015 Historical Production to 2014
Algeria 19,500 0
Argentina 19,600 2,582
Australia 1,780,800 194,646
Belgium 0 686
Botswana 73,500 0
Brazil 276,800 4,172
Bulgaria 0 16,364
Canada 703,600 483,957
Central African Republic 32,000 0
Chad 2,400 0
Chile 1,500 0
China 272,500 39,849[2]
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,700 25,600[2]
Czech Republic 119,300 111,765[2]
Egypt 1,900 0
Finland 1,200 30
France 0 76,006
Gabon 5,800 25,403
Germany 7,000 219,686
Greece 7,000 0
Greenland 228,000 0
Hungary 13,500 21,067
India 138,700 11,398[2]
Indonesia 7,200 0
Iran 3,900 0
Italy 6,100 0
Japan 6,600 84
Jordan 47,700 0
Kazakhstan 941,600 244,707
Madagascar 0 785
Malawi 14,300 4,217
Mali 13,000 0
Mauritania 23,800 0
Mexico 3,400 49
Mongolia 141,500 535
Namibia 463,000 120,418
Niger 411,300 132,017
Pakistan 0 1,439[2]
Peru 33,400 0
Poland 0 650
Portugal 7,000 3,720
Romania 6,600 18,899[2]
Russia 395,200 158,844
Slovakia 15,500 211
Slovenia 9,200 382
Somalia 7,600 0
South Africa 449,300 159,510
Soviet Union 1,800,000 (approximation) 102,886 (approximation)
Spain 33,900 8,028
Sweden 9,600 200
Tanzania 58,100 0
Turkey 6,600 0
Ukraine 220,700 129,804
United States 138,200 373,075
Uzbekistan 130,100 127,591[2]
Vietnam 3,900 0
Zambia 24,600 86
Zimbabwe 1,400 0
Total 7,641,600 2,818,415
[13]. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-09/highly-enriched-uranium-cleared-from-vietnam/4809016
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