If you have a strong enough neutron flux then you can burn the waste (i.e irradiate it until it transmutes to something with a short-enough half-life). Unfortunately, only fast neutron reactors have neutron balance good enough to allow a significant fraction to be diverted for uses other than supporting the chain reaction.

RUSSIANS, not RUSSIAN MILITARY. That's the crucial difference. And pardon me, but I don't believe pictures without any other corroboration.

They were not airborne soldiers and they were captured near the border far from the Ukrainian front. So yes, I'd go with 'accidentally lost' theory.

They could have blamed Berkut officers who escaped to Crimea. Yet curiously there are no witnesses of actual shooters.

Yet Putin's war crimes happened to be bloodless. There was only one fatality during the Crimea takeover.

Maybe because only RT tells about such things? Have you thought about that?

Oh RLY? Let's see: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media... ( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... ) No, no graphic images at all. No tearful stories of "imagine what these poor passengers felt after the rocket hit".

Similar tragedies happen in Ukraine every day now, yet a note somewhere on CNN is certainly enough. Even better if it's worded in a way that tries to avoid blaming Ukrainian soldiers.

And without Western diplomatic support and pressure, there would have been NO revolution at all. Yanukovich would have been voted out by now and everything would have been OK. How about that?

Actually, no. Even Berkuts say that unknown agents, probably from FSB shot people. There's a very real probability that that was a false-flag operation. We see from the current war crimes committed by the Ukrainian army that Maidan leaders are happy to oblige in such matters.

Yet that's what ends up happening. Intentionally or not, in Libya (militia there are doing ethnic cleansings), Syria and Iraq (ISIS), Egypt (more than 300 death sentences for a murder of a policeman) and so on.

I do not watch Russian TV channels. I do not even read official Russian news. All the information I get is from blogs and/or forums. For example, try to read this one: http://talk.lg.ua/index.php?sh... or this blog http://lugansk.co.ua/ . You just _might_ notice that people there do not support Kiev (there ARE supporters, but only a 'vocal minority').

Now tell me, has CNN shown these photos: http://voicesevas.ru/img/4fd15... - that's a bus full of civilians (including children) shot and burned by Ukrainian army. I think not. But of course, every photo of Malaysian airplane got plastered all over the news everywhere.

See, you're basing your conclusions not on actual information, but on several axioms: "Moscow is bad", "Ukraine is good", "English-speaking media is honest". In this system, anything that conflicts with your view is simply 'Russian propaganda' and is obviously false.

Just this day the State Department has admitted that they actually have no concrete proofs apart from the satellite pictures. Not from commercial satellites, mind you. OSCE traitors also told that they don't actually have proof of direct Russian military involvement.

Even CNN ran a news article about suffering of civilians because of shelling of the cities by the Ukrainian army: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/... ,which really is a first. Most other articles carefully skirted that point.

That's because an ultra-nationalistic Lyashko got most of it (12%). Mind you, that was a presidential poll and many citizens voted for the candidate that they want to win.

Here's an interview with a Berkut serviceman, now fighting on the side of Kiev in ATO: http://korrespondent.net/ukrai... He denies that there were snipers behind the Berkut lines. You might also note that the investigation of the shooting went exactly nowhere.

Also a philosophical observation - the West supports ANYONE who declares support for the West. Without even looking who they are. Are you a cannibal ultra-nazi mass murderer but declaring the support of the West? Fine, you're in! That attitude has already lead us to Libya, Iraq and Syria becoming one big total mess.

So let me recap:

1) Anything contradicting your prejudices is propaganda.
2) Propaganda is always false.
3) Rising ultra-nationalism in Ukraine doesn't exist.
4) Everything put out there by blind copying of Ukrainian media is obviously true.

Have I missed anything?

You're the one who said 'agent-provocateurs', aren't you? Do you know that the trees with bullet holes from snipers were cut down and burned by the no-longer-protesters 3 days after the shooting? Think about it.

Won't you be just a little bit passionate about the country where you've lived for years? Especially if you think that it is sliding towards a full-scale nazism?

One simple fact remains, EU supported a coup against a democracticaly-elected president.

You're muddling the story. After the Crimea takeover (which I don't support, btw) people in the East started capturing local administrative building. This tactic had been successful with the Maidan protesters, they captured most of the Western administrations (torturing and beating at least one governor) before the fall of Yanukovich.

Just as a note, I think that Yanukovich should be hanged on the same tree branch with Poroshenko, Yatsenuk and Turchinov.

Oh, really? Here's a photo for you: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media... ( http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... ). The very first proposed law of the post-Maidan parliament was a repeal of law forbidding the denial of nazi crimes. Then the law removing the special status of the Russian language.

Sorry, but while Maidan was not a classic neo-nazi, by the end it was definitely nationalistic and anti-Russian. I had been there at the very start (and I donated more than $5k to help protesters) but had to leave for two months. When I returned, everything was different.

Dude, do you know that inciting ethnic or racial strife is a _felony_ in Russia? Punishable by up to 8 years in prison, at that. There are also 25 official state languages and something like 200 different ethnicities. Russia is nowhere close to a fascist state.

It IS an authoritarian state with a de-fact dictator and dysfunctional court system. And also with an energe-export economy which is leading to nowhere (you can guess that I don't like Putin). But that's beside the point right now.

Also a thought, the new Ukrainian slogan: "Hail to Ukraine! Hail to Heroes!" is taken DIRECTLY from the WWII. From the nazi-allied Ukrainian forces that had committed multiple war crimes against Poles and had zero effect on the regular USSR army. Kinda fits the situation today.

I'm curious, how can you comment these kinds of videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - the Ukrainian soldiers say that local citizens in the 'liberated' areas call them 'fascists' or 'ukrops'. They are sincerely baffled that they are not, in fact, greeted as heroes by the people in the East.

The maps show important several divergences, like separated Lugansk and Donetsk (in reality they never were). Or the lack of clashes away from the rebel-controlled area.

If the BBC maps are copied from the official military intelligence then it's no wonder that rebels don't have trouble encircling Ukrainian military.

Oh, who cares. We have a number, after all. It's so obviously true! It's as true as CNN polls!

So basically, it's called Wikireality. Nice. Do you understand that you've just channeled our dear beloved mister Goebbels? "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself".

Yeah, and diplomatic help of the West also helped. Do you remember the shitstorm that the Western countries started when Yanukovich passed the laws banning weapons from demonstrations?