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A nuclear official said Friday Iran will not answer to the U.N. nuclear watchdog about its plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment sites beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty.
I just want to say thanks for your support in letting a Vermont tradition live again in your newspaper. Some people claim to have a problem with it, but personally I can’t get enough of it.
The Tennessee Valley Authority says its Unit 2 reactor at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in southeastern Tennessee is back online.
Retired New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, a nuclear power advocate while in office, delivered a speech today in Washington, D.C., saying the United States' "nuclear rennaissance" has stalled. Having covered Domenici for years, I know better than to assume he delivered the speech as written, but the written text is on line . Some excerpts: The United States lags in the development and deployment ...
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Federal regulators are inspecting the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to determine why a pair of reactor safety switches were misaligned.
An influential Iranian leader suggested on Monday Iran should quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty in protest against a U.N. censure over its nuclear activity, but its atomic energy chief dismissed such a move.
He infuriated Washington by challenging claims Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program, grappled with Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and brought luster and unprecedented scrutiny to his organization by winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
China has been the most attractive economy in the world ever since opening the flood gates to foreign investments in the 1990s. The country has significantly outpaced the developed world, especially the U.S., in terms of economic growth. Can China continue this torrid growth pace?
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad left no doubt about Iran's ambitions. "We need to spread out to numerous sites to produce nuclear fuel for us. We shall build 10 new uranium enrichment plants," he said on state television on November 29. Ahmadinejad's announcement surprised even seasoned Iran watchers.
"A 250 bar (atmospheric) pressure test has been successfully carried out at the Bushehr nuclear plant," Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Director Mohammad Ali Salehi said at a press conference with visiting Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko in Tehran.
Iran's nuclear chief on Monday said U.N. criticism pushed his country to retaliate by announcing ambitious plans for more uranium enrichment. With tensions rising over deadlocked negotiations, France said diplomacy was not working and sanctions against Iran were needed.
Iran's announcement of plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster after a strong rebuke from the U.N.'s nuclear agency, analysts said Monday. Nonetheless, the defiance is fueling calls among Western allies for new punitive sanctions to freeze Iran's nuclear program.
Associated Press - December 1, 2009 10:34 AM ET SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) - Federal regulators are inspecting the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to determine why a pair of reactor safety...
LONDON (Dow Jones)--The potential for new metal discoveries at Rio Tinto PLC's (RTP) Bingham Canyon mine in the U.S. state of Utah has rejuvenated exploration efforts at the site, a company executive said Tuesday.
Iran sees little point in staying in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, a senior official said on Monday, a day after Iran announced plans to build 10 more nuclear sites in a swipe at growing pressure to rein in atomic activity.
Despite environmental scientific and regulatory concerns, almost everyone agrees that nuclear energy is the future.
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