”nuclear” News

Oil for nukes – mostly a bad idea

Cambridge, Mass. - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is on a nuclear power selling spree in the Middle East .
03 1 2008 1:39AM (...more)

62 Years After Hiroshima

WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (OneWorld) - In the history of warfare, nuclear weapons have been used twice, and though it has been 62 years since an atomic bomb has been employed in a conflict, the threat of a nuclear attack remains as present as ever, say arms control advocates.
09 2 2007 4:20PM (...more)

Electricity-hungry Vietnam looks to join nuclear club

HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam is expected to take a key step towards meeting its burgeoning appetite for electricity by paving the way for its first nuclear power plant , but debate
11 18 2009 12:18PM (...more)

Nuclear terror would strain day-after bomb sleuths

VIENNA – If the unthinkable happened, would we be left on the day after, as radioactive dust settled, with the unknowable? If a terrorist nuclear bomb destroyed the heart of a great city, how would we know who did it, with what?
06 17 2009 9:45AM (...more)

France offers Pakistan nuclear energy help

PARIS (AFP) – France and Pakistan have agreed to cooperate in the nuclear field, officials said Friday, with Islamabad claiming an important breakthrough in its bid to be seen as a responsible
05 21 2009 3:43PM (...more)

Dead or alive? Yucca Mountain still gets funding

LAS VEGAS – These days, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid prefers nothing so much as a one-word description for the Yucca Mountain nuclear
05 21 2009 3:24AM (...more)

Obama: Tougher treaty to halt nuke weapons needed

UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama urged delegates at a U.N. meeting to strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty so it can deal
05 20 2009 1:07PM (...more)

Delegates take key step in nuclear treaty review

UNITED NATIONS – Delegates preparing for a major conference next year to review the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have agreed on an agenda, and some said the change in 05 20 2009 9:03AM (...more)

IAEA, Iran in silent standoff over nuclear probe

VIENNA (Reuters) – An inquiry by the U.N. nuclear watchdog into alleged atom bomb research by Iran has degenerated into a silent standoff a few months after Tehran asserted "the
12 6 2008 1:19PM (...more)

Cancer diagnoses delayed as Dutch reactor to stay shut till Feb

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Cancer patients across Europe face further delays for diagnoses after the owner of a Dutch nuclear reactor said Tuesday it would not re-open until February, almost three months behind schedule.
10 15 2008 2:46PM (...more)