Source: Haaretz
Ten weeks have passed since the Israel Air Force attacked in Syria, and there is still no reliable information about the precise target that was destroyed, or about the importance and necessity of the attack.
Source: nationalpost.com
A record number of incidents where low-level nuclear material has been lost in Canada has officials in that country and the United States concerned that terrorists are possibly preparing for an attack with a "dirty bomb."
Source: Google
WASHINGTON (AP) — American and Russian officials have reached an agreement on how to safely dispose of 34 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade plutonium, overcoming a major hurdle in a joint nuclear nonproliferation effort that at times has been close to falling apart.
Source: hanfordnews.com
The Department of Energy has been slow to make plans and begin consolidating the nation's stores of nuclear weapons materials to improve security, according to a Government Accountability Office report to Congress.
Source: aip.org
The conclusion drawn by a National Research Council committee regarding a major Bush Administration nuclear energy initiative is unambiguous.
Source: fas.org
This afternoon, a committee of the National Research Council, a research arm of the National Academy of Science, issued a report that is extremely critical of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, or GNEP, an administration plan to restart separating plutonium from used commerci …
Source: Nuclear Threat Initiative
North Korea in a matter of days might begin to meet its pledge to disable facilities at its plutonium-producing Yongbyon nuclear complex, Reuters reported today.
Source: The Age
Source: english.people.com.cn
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Britain's stocks of plutonium are kept in "unacceptable" conditions and pose a severe safety and security risk, experts warn today.
Source: Times of India
The Bush push for a global plutonium proliferation nightmare has been carved down budget wise, but the $500 billion agenda is still a top priority administratively.
Source: Forbes
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Source: Energy Policy TV
India will guarantee nuclear material security under a new deal between the U.S. and India.
Source: EurekAlert!
Why GNEP can't jump to the future
Source: world-nuclear-news.org
Construction started on 1 August on the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at Savannah River, South Carolina. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) facility will convert at least 34 tonnes of surplus US weapons-grade plutonium into mixed-oxide fuel.
Source: ACG-CIS
"How close were we to seeing an armed nuclear conflict?" That is the question being asked as Syrian nationals temporarily vacated Beirut, Lebanon and the Jordan Valley during mid July according to sources close to ACG-CIS.
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After years of international negotiations, the isolated nation of North Korea has agreed to shut down its nuclear weapons development program and a plutonium reactor. Still, fears persist about the rogue regime maintaining a secret uranium enchrichment facility.
Source: International Herald Tribune
The U.S. has released a report postulating that Pakistan is in the process of bulking up its nuclear arsenal through plutonium enrichment, a potential move toward an arms race with India.
Source: Sciam
Precise measurements of zircon's dismal durability may point the way to better radiation-proof containersPlutonium stowed underground in blocks of the mineral zircon would erode its housing in as little as 1,400 years, according to new measurements.
Source: armscontrolwonk.com
In January and March 2006, I blogged about stories by James Sterngold inthe San Francisco Chronicle suggesting plutonium, much like Sophia Loren, ages extremely well—remaining quite, um, fissile for at least 60 years.
Source: Yahoo! News
International Atomic Energy experts have found unexplained plutonium and enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran and have asked Tehran for an explanation, an IAEA report said Tuesday.
Source: MSNBC
The darkest side of nuclear power, as North Korea just dramatically demonstrated, is that its waste can be made into bomb fuel.
Source: MSNBC
North Korea might have extracted as much as 110 pounds of plutonium and is working to miniaturize nuclear devices to fit on ballistic missiles, a South Korean lawmaker said on Thursday, quoting from a Defense Ministry report.That amount would be enough for up to seven nuclear wea …
Source: Science: Current Issue
With a muffled explosion deep inside a mountain, North Korea set the world on edge yesterday with a claim that it had detonated a nuclear bomb. But scientists poring over seismic signals from the blast are pondering why the detonation appears to have been so small.