”nuclear materials” News

Obama Urges New Efforts to Cut World’s Nuclear Arms

April 5 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama called for aworld without nuclear weapons, delivering his appeal just hoursafter a North Korean rocket launch that sparked internationalcondemnation.
04 6 2009 3:33AM (...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)

IAEA approves extra atom inspection pact for India

VIENNA (Reuters) – U.N. nuclear watchdog governors on Tuesday approved a deal allowing extra inspections of India 's atomic industry, a condition of a U.S.-led deal allowing New Delhi to import 03 4 2009 12:01PM (...more)

India signs IAEA inspections pact key to atom trade

VIENNA (Reuters) – India signed a pact on Monday opening up its civilian nuclear plants to U.N. inspections, a condition of a U.S.-led deal allowing it to import nuclear materials
02 6 2009 8:04AM (...more)

Senior Iranian MP casts doubt on atom fuel deal

TEHRAN (Reuters) – A senior Iranian MP rejected on Thursday the idea of sending enriched uranium abroad for further processing, hinting at Tehran's reluctance to embrace a proposal meant to ease international tension over its nuclear ambitions. The U.N. nuclear watchdog
10 29 2009 7:24AM (...more)

US will never have 'normal' ties with a nuclear NKorea

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States will never have "normal, sanctions-free relations" with a nuclear-armed North Korea , Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned as she demanded its full atomic disarmament.
10 24 2009 7:10AM (...more)

US to host March nuclear security summit: White House

L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will invite leaders from 25-30 countries to a March 2010 summit on securing nuclear materials and battling atomic
07 9 2009 8:28PM (...more)

US to host nuclear security summit in March

L'AQUILA, Italy – President Barack Obama is planning to host a nuclear security summit in Washington next March. Obama's deputy national security adviser, Mark Lippert, says Obama announced the summit during
07 9 2009 7:57PM (...more)

Janitor gets 6 years in Tenn. nuclear parts theft

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A former janitor was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for trying to sell scrap hardware he stole from a shuttered plant that enriched uranium for nuclear weapons . Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, of Harriman
06 22 2009 3:39PM (...more)

US nuclear workers happiest federal employees: poll

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Workers in the US nuclear and space agencies are the happiest federal employees compared to their counterparts in the transport and archives departments, a new study said Wednesday. The study, carried out by the Partnership for Public Service (PPS), looked
06 6 2009 3:59AM (...more)