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US, Britain And Canada Increase Sanctions on Iran
The United States, in concert with key allies, sharply tightened economic sanctions on Iran Monday to press Tehran to end a suspected drive for nuclear weapons. Britain and Canada joined the U.S. sanctions move, while other European countries are also...
IEA Report Advises Governments to Embrace Renewables And Nuclear
The good news is that on 8 November the International Energy Agency released its 2011 "World Energy Outlook." While it will cheer nuclear advocates, overall the report makes for grim reading. Pulling no punches, the report states at the outset,...
Russia, China Poised to Block New United Nations Sanctions on Iran
This week, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency released its toughest report yet on Iran’s nuclear program, saying it appears Tehran has worked on designing an atom bomb. While Russia and China seem to agree there are legitimate concerns about Iran’s...
Radar Gun Catches Predator Shredding Turbulence in Fusion Plasma
Recent experiments carried out at the DIII-D tokamak in San Diego have allowed scientists to observe how fusion plasmas spontaneously turn off the plasma turbulence responsible for most of the heat loss in plasmas confined by toroidal magnetic fields....
U.K. MOX Plant Closure to Cost Japanese Utilities Billions
The closure of a plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel plant in Britain is set to cost Japan’s nuclear power industry billions of yen in revenue, according to industry insiders.
Department of Atomic Energy in India Forms Expert Group for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project
India’s Department of Atomic Energy has constituted an Expert Group of 15 specialists with an objective of interacting with the officials of state government of Tamil Nadu and spokespersons of the people in the neighborhood of Kudankulam Nuclear Power...
Iran’s Nuclear Program Rumored to be Faltering Due to Poorly Functioning Equipment
New reports by Western experts say Iran’s nuclear program is faltering because of poorly functioning equipment. But they say Iran has the capability to build at least one atomic weapon in about six months’ time, if it chose to do so. But, it is believed...
Belarus, Russia to Finalize Deal on Nuclear Power Plant Construction
The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be...
