International Nuclear Watch & Discussion

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 16 Mar 2009 03:49

Non-proliferation group presses U.S. gov't

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 17 Mar 2009 03:33

The results are in: Yekaterina Bulgakova, a sporty 25-year-old, snared first place in Miss Atom 2009, the annual beauty contest for the Russian nuclear industry. She wins a weeklong holiday in the socialist paradise of Cuba.

http://miss2009.nuclear.ru/anketa.html?id=83

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Mar 2009 02:32

Japan to Go Nuclear If Unified Korea Is Nuke-Armed

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Mar 2009 02:33

Russia to rearm nuclear arsenal

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 18 Mar 2009 02:37

Sharp Increase of Thorium Ore Reserves

The U.S.G.S.’ latest estimate of 915,000 tons of thorium ore reserves within the claims held by Thorium Energy, Inc., in Idaho and Montana compares to the previously published U.S.G.S. estimate of 160,000 tons for the entire United States as stated in the U.S.G.S. Mineral Commodity Summaries 2008.

This confirms that Thorium Energy, Inc.'s total Idaho and Montana thorium resources and reserves are the largest in the United States. Furthermore, the company is not aware of any larger, professionally documented reserves of high-grade thorium anywhere in the world. According to the current U.S.G.S. statistics, the next highest estimates of thorium ore are for Australia with 300,000 tons and India with 290,000 tons. It must be noted that the Idaho and Montana deposits are of high-grade thorite and thorianite rather than low-grade disseminated deposits as in India, for example.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 20 Mar 2009 02:23

Fuel for thought

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 20 Mar 2009 02:24

U.K. Nuclear Deterrent May Lapse on Trident Renewal, Panel Says

British Nuclear Deterrent Depends on Timely U.S. Help, Lawmakers Report

NRao · Post by **NRao** » 21 Mar 2009 03:15

The critical issue of safety

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 21 Mar 2009 04:59

NRC decision on depleted uranium draws rebuke on Hill

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 21 Mar 2009 05:01

The Chinese proliferation to its Pakistani and North Korean proxies was done the aim of setting up these regional "nuclear free" zones and hobbling other regional powers.

Achieving a Nuclear-Free Northeast Asia

The first step calls for South Korea, North Korea and Japan to form the core of the zone as nonnuclear states. Concurrent with this, China, Russia and the United States will extend legally binding guarantees to these three countries that they will engage neither in nuclear strikes nor threats of such aggression.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 21 Mar 2009 14:36

Allegations that the Iranians sponsored the NoKo supplied,Israeli bombed Syrian reactor in the making.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... AD971BHEG3

GENEVA (AP) — An Iranian defector told the West that Iran was financing North Korean moves to transform Syria into a nuclear weapons power, leading to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a secret reactor, a report said Thursday.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 21 Mar 2009 18:46

Central Asia nuclear-free pact comes into force

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 21 Mar 2009 19:03

IAEA succession battle shapes nuclear agency's future

Abdul Samad Minty, a South African, and Yukiya Amano of Japan are the front-runners to take over as director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency after the term of Mohamed ElBaradei expires this year.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 22 Mar 2009 17:00

After Yucca: America's homeless nuclear waste

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 22 Mar 2009 23:57

Russia submits proposal to Bangladesh on setting up nuclear power plant

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 22 Mar 2009 23:57

Tug of war for control of global nuclear watchdog

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 23 Mar 2009 02:22

5 Myths on Nuclear Power

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 23 Mar 2009 06:23

What About The Nukes?

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 24 Mar 2009 02:30

Russia to strengthen strategic nuclear subs

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 24 Mar 2009 02:52

How many countries will get the bomb?

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 25 Mar 2009 01:47

France to compensate nuclear test victims

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 25 Mar 2009 01:48

Nuclear Security Official Hints at Leaner, Less Costly Weapons Complex

For example, he noted that over the past two years, the projection of the number of new plutonium triggers that will be needed to keep the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile reliable and secure has steadily dropped from 450 a year to 20.

D'Agostino, a former Navy officer, told the subcommittee that he had made the production decision "that we would not exceed the minimum capacity, which was up to 20 pits," the industry name for plutonium triggers, per year, while awaiting Obama's decision on the future size of the stockpile.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 25 Mar 2009 04:19

Scientists in possible cold fusion breakthrough

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 25 Mar 2009 18:53

Japanese Man Officially Recognized as Having Survived Both Atomic Bombings

Double atomic bomb survivor found in Japan

Wow, talk about really bad luck! Or is that really good luck?

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 26 Mar 2009 03:47

Nuclear Watchdog to Elect Chief

The 35 members of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors will vote Thursday on a successor to Director General Mohamed ElBaradei of Egypt.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 26 Mar 2009 03:49

Iran able to build nuclear bomb in year: Israel

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 26 Mar 2009 06:37

latest fatwa from Grand Ayatollah Henry Sokolski

Inspections are another area where the agreement is not what it seems. Its wording makes reference to the very toughest type of inspection — the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol — which the UAE is quite willing to undergo. Unfortunately, the agreement does not actually require it to do so.

renukb · Post by **renukb** » 26 Mar 2009 10:11

Japan Says U.S. Risks Nuclear Proliferation

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 27 Mar 2009 01:58

FACTBOX-Key facts on French nuclear power giants

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 27 Mar 2009 01:58

Atomic Agency Fails to Choose New Head on First Ballots

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 27 Mar 2009 02:11

The Solar and Renewable Utopia

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 27 Mar 2009 04:57

A little deaf in one ear - meet the Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 27 Mar 2009 15:26

China seeks lost radioactive ball

Chinese officials are urgently seeking a nugget of deadly radioactive material encased in a lead ball the size of a watermelon that was lost this week. The Caesium-137 may be buried in a scrap yard under tonnes of metal, and local officials believe it could have been melted down.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 27 Mar 2009 15:43

Victims of French Nuclear Testing Scorn Meager Compensation

Sanjay M · Post by **Sanjay M** » 27 Mar 2009 18:18

Missing Chinese Nuclear Material Found at Steel Mill:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7967285.stm

NRao · Post by **NRao** » 27 Mar 2009 22:06

Atomic Agency Fails to Elect New Head

Officials from 35 nations failed to agree on a successor to Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in a second day of voting on Friday, the agency said, opening the field to new candidates.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 28 Mar 2009 04:25

USEC gets $3.3 bln in commitments for centrifuge plant

Tilak · Post by **Tilak** » 28 Mar 2009 06:05

National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse

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The Mercury Laser moves toward Practical Laser Fusion

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 29 Mar 2009 08:07

Senator seeks to ratify nuclear test ban pact

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was rejected by the Senate a decade ago. President Barack Obama said during his campaign that he would seek to get it ratified. But ratification is up to the Senate, where two-thirds approval is required.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 29 Mar 2009 17:43

The lost city of Chernobyl