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GE uranium enrichment plans raise fears: report
US conglomerate General Electric is seeking permission to build a $1 billion plant for uranium enrichment by laser, a process which has raised proliferation fears, The New York Times said Sunday. After testing the enrichment process for two years, GE has asked the US government to approve its plans for a massive facility in North [...]
Toll rises as Japan battles nuclear, humanitarian crisis
Japan battled a nuclear and humanitarian crisis Friday as engineers worked to restore power to a stricken atomic plant while the toll of dead and missing from the quake and tsunami topped 16,000. Half a million people made homeless when the monster waves razed Japan’s northeast coast were suffering in appalling conditions, struggling to stay [...]
Warnings to leave Tokyo as concern in Japan grows
Doubts over whether Japan can contain its nuclear crisis grew Thursday, as helicopters dumped water onto an overheating power plant and more foreign governments urged citizens to leave Tokyo. Four military Chinooks ran a mission to empty containers holding more than seven tonnes of water each onto the nuclear facility damaged by Friday’s massive earthquake [...]
Nuclear crisis deepens in disaster-struck Japan
Japanese crews grappling with the world’s worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl temporarily pulled out Wednesday as radiation rose following feared damage to a reactor containment vessel. The evacuation order at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, where a tall stack of white cloud billowed high into the sky, deepened the crisis gripping Japan after an earthquake [...]
Radiation Forces US 7th Fleet to Reposition Ships
The U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and aircraft away from Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant after detecting low-level contamination in the air and on its aircraft operating in the area. The source of this airborne radioactivity is a radioactive plume released from the power plant, officials said. In a statement announcing [...]
Japan nuclear plant rocked by second blast
An explosion rocked an earthquake-hit nuclear plant Monday, as Japan struggled to avert a catastrophic reactor meltdown caused by a quake and tsunami feared to have killed more than 10,000. A new tsunami scare triggered evacuations on the devastated northeast coast after a large wave was spotted rolling in to shore, but authorities said they [...]
US angered by ‘provocative’ NKorea nuclear plant
WASHINGTON: US officials accused North Korea of flouting UN sanctions and seeking to destabilize the region amid the latest claims that the secretive state has built a sophisticated, new uranium enrichment plant. “This validates a long-standing concern that we’ve had with respect to North Korea and its enrichment of uranium,” said the US top military [...]
Iran transfers fuel into its first nuclear power plant
BUSHEHR, Iran: A defiant Iran on Saturday began loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant in the face of stiff opposition from world powers to its controversial atomic programme. Despite leading Western opposition to the Islamic republic’s project to enrich uranium in defiance of four sets of UN sanctions, the United States said [...]
Burning Russia battles to defend nuclear sites
MOSCOW: Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took to the air in a water-bombing plane to join the firefighting effort. Two soldiers were killed by blazing trees as they strove to put out a fire dangerously close to Russia’s main nuclear research [...]
